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Internationally award-winning writer Tom Stoppard’s plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, New Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia, Rock ‘n’ Roll and, most recently, The Hard Problem. His radio plays include Albert’s Bridge, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, and most recently, Darkside. As well as for the stage and radio, Stoppard is an award-winning writer for film and television.

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Tom Stoppard Awards and Nominations


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Drama Desk Awards - 2023 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2023 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt


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Evening Standard Awards - 2014 - Lebedev Award

Tom Stoppard


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Evening Standard Awards - 2011 - Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull

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Tony Awards - 2008 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll


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BroadwayWorld Awards - 2007 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia


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Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia

Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2007 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia

Olivier Awards - 2007 - Best New Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'N' Roll


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Tony Awards - 2007 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia


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Evening Standard Awards - 2006 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll

Olivier Awards - 2003 - The BBC Award for Best New Play

Tom StoppardThe Coast Of Utopia - Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage


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Drama Desk Awards - 2001 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2001 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

Tony Awards - 2001 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love


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Drama Desk Awards - 2000 - Outstanding Revival - Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

Olivier Awards - 1998 - BBC Award for the Play of the Year

Tom StoppardThe Invention Of Love


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Evening Standard Awards - 1997 - Best Play

Tom StoppardThe Invention of Love

Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Drama Desk Awards - 1995 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1995 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Olivier Awards - 1994 - BBC Award for the Play of the Year

Tom StoppardArcadia


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Evening Standard Awards - 1993 - Best Play

Tom StoppardArcadia


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Drama Desk Awards - 1984 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1984 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing


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Tony Awards - 1984 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing


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Evening Standard Awards - 1982 - Best Play

Tom StoppardThe Real Thing

Olivier Awards - 1981 - Comedy of the Year

Tom StoppardOn The Razzle

Drama Desk Awards - 1980 - Outstanding Play

Tom Stoppard, Night and Day

Olivier Awards - 1979 - Play of the Year

Tom StoppardNight And Day


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Evening Standard Awards - 1978 - Best Play

Tom StoppardNight and Day


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Evening Standard Awards - 1976 - Best Comedy

Tom StoppardTravesties


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1976 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Travesties


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Tony Awards - 1976 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Travesties


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Evening Standard Awards - 1972 - Best Play

Tom StoppardJumpers


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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 1968 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead


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Tony Awards - 1968 - Best Play

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead


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Evening Standard Awards - 1967 - Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright

Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Matthew Broderick & More to be Featured in Shakespeare Theatre Company 24/25 Season

Shakespeare Theatre Company has revealed the lineup of its upcoming 24/25 Season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

LEOPOLDSTADT, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, and More Set For the Huntington's 2024/25 Season

Five of the seven titles have been announced for The Huntington’s upcoming 2024/25 season. The season will feature new plays by masterful writers, the first two plays of an ambitious, epic cycle, and a soaring, contemporary classic musical. Learn more about the full season lineup here!

Review: FAT HAM Serves Cookout Chaos Realness at City Theatre

James Ijames's Pulitzer-winning comedy Fat Ham is less an adaptation or reimagining of Hamlet, and more a play ABOUT Hamlet, a response to Hamlet. The characters are all too aware of how their stories and behaviors are mirroring characters from Shakespeare's tragedy: they quote it, riff on it, confirm or refute its influence on them.

Review: ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at CAA Theatre

Rosentranctz & Guildenstern are Dead is the hilariously absurdist play written by Tom Stoppard, directed by Jeremy Webb, that shines the spotlight on two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The star-studded casting for the title duo could not be a more perfect match - from the Academy Award winning trilogy The Lord of the Rings, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd.

DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS World Premiere & More Set for Palm Beach Dramaworks 25th Season

Palm Beach Dramaworks will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2024-25 with a  roster of plays that epitomize its commitment to “Theatre to Think About.” Learn about full programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Review: NACHTLAND, Young Vic

Nachtland is a nervous, difficult play whose purpose is decisively blurry. It doesn’t revel as much as it should in the unknotting of its cerebral conundrum and doesn’t bask in the incredible satire it holds. The ideas it presents are topical, yet the piece is distracted. It tries to be quirky and different, but the result is tired and unfocused. It will make audiences think and talk about what they just saw, but not necessarily in a good way.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, HAMLET & More Set for Contra Costa Civic Theatre 65th Season

The Contra Costa Civic Theatre has revealed its 65th season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Full Broadway Cast Set For PATRIOTS, Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Keen, and More

The full Broadway cast has been announced for the Almeida Theatre production of Patriots, the new play by Peter Morgan. Learn more about the show and find out who is starring here!

Miller Theatre To Presents 3-Part Bach Concert Series Curated By Simone Dinnerstein

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts will present a series of three BACH concerts with pianist/curator Simone Dinnerstein. Concerts will take place at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street). Tickets starting at $30.

a.k. payne, Jasmine Naziha Jones & More Named as Finalists for 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

The 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed the finalists for this prestigious international award honoring women+ playwrights.

Video: New Trailer For THIS MUCH I KNOW at Theatre J

Get a first look at an all new trailer for Theatre J's This Much I Know. Written by the highly acclaimed playwright Jonathan Spector, This Much I Know will be directed by Theater J Artistic Director, Hayley Finn, making her directorial debut for the company. 

Michael Stuhlbarg Will Return to Broadway in Peter Morgan's PATRIOTS

Award-winning theatre, film, and television actor Michael Stuhlbarg will return to Broadway for the first time in almost 20 years to star in Patriots, the Almeida Theatre production of the timely new play by Peter Morgan. Learn more about the play here!

Full Cast Set for PLAYER KINGS Starring Ian McKellen, Toheeb Jimoh & Richard Coyle

IAN MCKELLEN, TOHEEB JIMOH & RICHARD COYLE star in Robert Icke's production of PLAYER KINGS, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2.

Hayley Finn Makes Theater J Directoral Debut With THIS MUCH I KNOW

Hayley Finn makes her directorial debut with Theater J's production of 'This Much I Know'. Inspired by the research of Daniel Kahneman, the play explores the fracture of a marriage and the search for self-discovery. Starring Firdous Bamji.

Lantern Theater Company to Continue 30th Anniversary Season With FAITH HEALER By Brian Friel

Lantern Theater Company continues its 30th anniversary season with Brian Friel's masterpiece play, Faith Healer. Directed by Peter DeLaurier and featuring Anthony Lawton, Ian Merrill Peakes, and Geneviève Perrier, Faith Healer explores memory, belief, and the stories we tell ourselves.

BEDLAM Announces 2024 Season Including THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR AS TOLD BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND GEORGE BERNARD SHAW and More

Hot off their critically acclaimed run of Tom Stoppard's, ARCADIA, New York Theatre Company BEDLAM, led by Artistic Director Eric Tucker, has announced its upcoming shows for 2024.

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD Starring Billy Boyd & Dominic Monaghan Extended at Toronto's CAA Theatre

Regardless of the title of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant debut play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will live to play another week of performances in Toronto.

Bay Street Theater Announces An Exciting And Diverse Line-up Of Winter Classes

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has announced its Winter 2024 line-up of classes and workshops offering something for everyone in the community.

Review: ROCK 'N' ROLL, Hampstead Theatre

During its original run, real life happenings threatened to overshadow the fictional: Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett - whose presence and music is felt throughout Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll - sadly died in Cambridge where he was born and where this epochal play of cultural and political revolution is set over several decades. 

THE GARDENS OF ANUNCIA Original Cast Recording to be Released in 2024

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release an original cast recording for 'THE GARDENS OF ANUNCIA' from LINCOLN CENTER THEATER.

Tom Stoppard FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Tom Stoppard written?

Tom Stoppard has written 21 shows including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Playwright), Travesties (Playwright), Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land (Playwright), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Bookwriter), Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (Playwright), Night and Day (Playwright), Artist Descending a Staircase (Playwright), The Real Inspector Hound and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (Playwright), Hapgood (Playwright), Arcadia (Playwright), The Real Thing (Playwright), Night and Day (Playwright), The Invention Of Love (Playwright), Jumpers (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia: Part 1 - Voyage (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia: Part 2 - Shipwreck (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia (Playwright), The Coast of Utopia: Part 3 - Salvage (Playwright), Rock 'n' Roll (Playwright), Shakespeare in Love (Based on the Screenplay), Leopoldstadt (Playwright).

What awards has Tom Stoppard been nominated for?

Tom Stoppard has been nominated for several awards throughout his career, including Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards and Best Play at the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for "Leopoldstadt." He also received the Lebedev Award at the Evening Standard Awards and Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull. Stoppard's nominations include Best Play at the Tony Awards for "Rock 'n' Roll" and "The Coast of Utopia," as well as Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Rock 'n' Roll" and "The Coast of Utopia." He has been recognized with awards like Best New Play at the Olivier Awards for "Rock 'N' Roll" and Best Play at the Evening Standard Awards for various productions such as "Arcadia," "The Real Thing," and "Travesties." Stoppard's acclaimed works like "The Invention of Love," "Night and Day," "Jumpers," and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" have also garnered nominations and awards at prestigious events like the Tony Awards, Olivier Awards, and Evening Standard Awards.

What awards has Tom Stoppard won?

Tom Stoppard has won numerous awards throughout his career, including Outstanding Play for "Leopoldstadt" at the Drama Desk Awards and Best Play for the same production at the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. He has also received accolades such as the Lebedev Award at the Evening Standard Awards and the Moscow Art Theatre's Golden Seagull. Stoppard's other notable wins include Best Play for "The Coast of Utopia" at the BroadwayWorld Awards, Outstanding Play for the same production at the Drama Desk Awards, and Best Play at the Tony Awards and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. Additionally, he has been recognized for works like "Rock 'n' Roll," "The Invention of Love," "The Real Thing," "Arcadia," "Night and Day," "Travesties," "Jumpers," and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," with wins across various prestigious awards ceremonies such as the Tony Awards and Evening Standard Awards. Stoppard's contributions to the theater have earned him accolades like the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards.

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