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Playwright Tom Stoppard dead at 88

Rob Beschizza
Nov 29, 2025
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Tom Stoppard at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock

Sir Tom Stoppard, the acclaimed playwright who authored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun and many other movies, is dead at 88.

Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia before his family fled the Na…

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