Parkland College Theatre debuted the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at the Harold and Jean Minear Theatre on Thursday night. The play, directed by Amy Penne and written by British ...

1968 Tony Awards Best Direction of a Play Derek Goldby 1968 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Paul Hecht 1968 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured ...

When the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead received its first professional production, by the National Theatre Company at London’s Old Vic Theatre in April 1967, it catapulted its obscure ...

Stoppard, born Tomáš Sträussler, is also known for “Travesties” (1976), “The Real Thing” (1984), “The Coast of Utopia” (2007) and “Leopoldstadt” (2023), all of which won Tony Awards for Best Play.

If all the world’s a stage, the play all of us are in seems almost impossible to understand. How did we get here, and what are we doing? Adept playwrights answer those questions for their characters.

Put the prefix "meta" before any noun or adjective, and your listener will inevitably roll their eyes in exhaustion. "Meta-fiction." "Meta-programming." "Meta-theatrical." These are terms thrown ...

The Huntington Theatre is bringing Shakespeare’s Hamlet back, but this time with new title characters. Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead brings the duo to the front and center ...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, now on at the CAA Theatre, was already one of theatre’s great cultural mash-ups. British playwright Tom Stoppard’s witty breakout hit from 1966 retells ...

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is dead. Once an audacious bit of undergraduate trickery tarted up as serious drama, the Tom Stoppard play has been not so much filmed as stuffed. Now and then ...