Playwright

Tom Stoppard: British playwright, who won Academy Award for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

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LONDON — British playwright Tom Stoppard, the funnyman and detective playwright who won an Oscar for his screenplay for the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love,” has died. He was 88. United Agents said in a statement on Saturday that Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset, southern England, surrounded by his family. They said: … Read more

Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83

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Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died. Chris Green, the executor of Wilson’s estate and the president of the Robert Wilson Arts Foundation confirmed the news to The New York Times, stating that the artist died Thursday (July 31) at … Read more