A prominent American playwright and actor, Jeremy O. Harris, known for his Tony-nominated "Slave Play," has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug known as ecstasy, ...

Something unexpected arrives in the middle of Tom Stoppard’s magisterial Holocaust drama Leopoldstadt: a bedroom farce. Fritz, a cavalry officer, is having an affair with the Catholic wife of Hermann ...

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

The news of Sir Tom Stoppard’s death has been confirmed by his agents (Picture: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions) The renowned playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88.

In addition to his five Tony Awards for Best Play, Stoppard won the Academy Award in in 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love" and was nominated in 1985 for "Brazil." Tom Stoppard, the brilliant, beloved ...

Cleage is known for her transformative plays centering on Black women's experiences. Pearl Cleage, an acclaimed writer known for her emphasis on Black feminist ideology, now reigns as a 2025 recipient ...

Playwrights’ Center celebrates a new, bigger space at the border of St. Paul and Minneapolis to house internationally acclaimed writers and nurture their work to the stage. For 46 years, Playwrights’ ...