Overview
- United Agents confirmed Stoppard died peacefully at his home in Dorset on Nov. 29, surrounded by family.
- London’s West End will dim theatre lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, in a tribute announced by the Olivier Awards.
- Tributes flowed from across culture, with Mick Jagger calling him a “giant of the English theater,” as publishers and theaters saluted his influence.
- Stoppard won five Tony Awards for best play and an Academy Award for Shakespeare in Love, with landmark works including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Leopoldstadt.
- Born Tomás Sträussler in Czechoslovakia and raised in wartime exile, he later confronted his family’s Holocaust losses, a reckoning that shaped his 2020 play Leopoldstadt, which won multiple Tonys in 2023.