US EditionPlaywright Tom Stoppard Dies at 88 in England
- On Saturday, Sir Tom Stoppard died peacefully at his Dorset, England home, United Agents said he was surrounded by family.
- Born Tom Struussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, Stoppard fled Nazi occupation with his family to Singapore and India, only fully learning of his Jewish heritage after his mother's death in 1996.
- Over a six-decade career, Stoppard won major awards and wrote landmark plays including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Leopoldstadt, earning five Tony Awards, Laurence Olivier Awards, and an Oscar with Marc Norman for Shakespeare In Love.
- BBC Breakfast and other outlets switched to tribute coverage as King Charles III and Queen Camilla led tributes, and West End theatres and the Olivier Awards dimmed lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
- His legacy includes plays that probed history and identity, notably Leopoldstadt, which drew on his family history and marked a personal reckoning with Jewish identity.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright whose last work explored his family's Holocaust history, dies at 88
Tom Stoppard had already won four Tony Awards during his prolific career as a playwright when he penned what would be his final staged work, dealing with his family’s Holocaust history. Already in his 80s, Stoppard wrote “Leopoldstadt” to explore a past he said he had thought was not relevant to his life — until he realized that it was. The play, which portrayed a Jewish family grappling with how to respond to rising antisemitic ferment in their…
He brought great ideas to the stage – and became even more famous when he adapted a theater theme for Hollywood: obituary to the playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for the screenplay of "Shakespeare in Love".
Charles III mourns the disappearance of one of the greatest contemporary British writers. Writer and playwright acclaimed by critics, having worked both in London and Hollywood, Tom Stoppard left us this Saturday, November 29, 2025 at the age of 88 in his home. The causes of his death have not been specified.
Tom Stoppard was one of Britain's most prominent playwrights. In his stage work, he often explored the historical dimension of theatre. He was also involved in Spielberg's scripts.
My hero Tom Stoppard
I do not believe in the supernatural but Tom Stoppard almost tipped me over – responsible for the greatest coincidence of my life. In late 2006 I was in charge of Radio 4 and wrote him a letter suggesting he should be the following year’s Reith lecturer. He didn’t do emails. I had never met him – or even spoken to him. Tom had been my favourite living playwright ever since I had been expelled from a school English class for having been a disru…
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