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Playwright 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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