The play premiered in January 2020 at Wyndham's Theatre. It was announced in June 2019 that Stoppard had written a new play, Leopoldstadt, set in the Jewish community of early 20th-century Vienna. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 11 in their list of the '100 most powerful people in British culture'. He has received numerous awards and honours including an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and four Tony Awards. He directed the film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth as the leads. His work on television includes various plays for ITV Play of the Week and the HBO limited series Parade's End (2013). Stoppard is also known for his screenplays including Brazil (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), The Russia House (1990), Billy Bathgate (1991), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Enigma (2001), and Anna Karenina (2012). Stoppard's most prominent plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll and Leopoldstadt.

After being educated at schools in Nottingham and Yorkshire, Stoppard became a journalist, a drama critic and then, in 1960, a playwright. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946, having spent the previous three years (1943–1946) in a boarding school in Darjeeling in the Indian Himalayas. Stoppard was knighted for his contribution to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997.īorn in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard left as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. Stoppard has been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation.

His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics of society. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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