A big part of what makes this a great theater town is its range of companies. The Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse are still gearing up for their first big productions of 2026, but many other San ...

Capital Stage has reached the maximum number of submissions for its annual new play festival, Playwrights' Revolution, just one week after opening its submission portal. Submissions opened on January ...

Off Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons is being sued for discrimination over a one-night discount during its run of Nazareth Hassan’s Practice. A New Jersey–based musician named Kevin Lynch ...

Playwrights Horizons, an Off-Broadway theater, was hit with a class action on Dec. 22 in New York Southern District Court over alleged race-based discrimination. The suit, brought by Consovoy McCarthy ...

This is FRESH AIR. One of Britain's most celebrated playwrights, Tom Stoppard, died last week at the age of 88. Condolences and tributes came from King Charles III, Mick Jagger and the National ...

The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week. The world lost its most celebrated modern playwright over ...

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 ...

Tom Stoppard, frequently hailed as the greatest British playwright of this generation, had both a remarkable life and a remarkable career. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1937, his family fled to Singapore ...

In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, British playwright Tom Stoppard poses as he arrives for the world premiere of "Anna Karenina," in London. Editor Tom Stoppard, often hailed as one of the greatest ...

LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88. In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard ...

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Travesties,” “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” and an Oscar winner ...

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. By Bruce Weber Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born ...