Writing a play,” Tom Stoppard told an interviewer in 1977, “is like smashing that ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to ...

It’s just a man failing to reappear, that’s all — now you see him, now you don’t, that’s the only thing that’s real.” I was a child encountering something massive and inevitable, and Stoppard was ...

Actor Ethan Hawke joined his son Levon to pay tribute to playwright Tom Stoppard following news of his death Saturday. The father-son duo posted an Instagram video featuring Ethan reading a monologue ...