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 | Tom Stoppard Tony Award-winning Playwright Cultural Power Tom Stoppard is a Tony Award-winning playwright and active human rights advocate. In 1967, he became the youngest playwright to have his work performed at the National Theatre in London with the production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. The New York production won both the Tony Award and the Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. He subsequently produced several short plays until 1972, when the National Theatre produced his next full-length play Jumpers. He won Tony Awards for Travesties in 1976 and The Real Thing in 1984. Stoppard also won an Academy Award in 1998 for his screenplay Shakespeare in Love. Arcadia, considered one of his best plays, premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 1993. In 2002, he mounted his most ambitious project yet, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia about the intelligentsia in pre-Revolutionary Russia at the National Theatre. The production moved to New York in 2006, where it won seven Tony awards, including Best Play. Most recently, his play Rock 'n' Roll, concerned with the significance of rock and roll in Stoppard's native Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, opened in 2006 at the National Theatre and in 2007 on Broadway. |
