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Arcadia is Tom Stoppard at his finest

New Statesman 11 Feb 2026
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a famously difficult play. A programme for Carrie Cracknell’s revival contains a glossary to help the audience follow along. Luckily, beyond that, the director refuses to dumb it down ... It is Stoppard at his finest ... yes.
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Am I allowed to find Tom Stoppard boring?

The Spectator 10 Feb 2026
I didn’t breathe a word of my true reaction while filing into the top-floor bar of the Old Vic theatre last week after the three-hour production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia was over.
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Arcadia at the Old Vic review: a fitting tribute to Tom Stoppard's genius

London Evening Standard 05 Feb 2026
This wonderful meditation on love, death and mathematics dances through the mind and the heart ... .
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Tom Stoppard Is Gone. In ‘Arcadia,’ His Wit Still Sparkles.

New York Times 05 Feb 2026
A new London production of the playwright’s masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death ... .
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Arcadia review – love, gardening and Euclidian geometry collide in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece

The Guardian 05 Feb 2026
Old Vic, London ... When Tom Stoppard was asked what this play was about, just as it streaked its meteoric path from London to New York in the 1990s, he called it a drama of romance, mathematics, landscape gardening and Byron ... ....
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Dr Miriam Stoppard on love, loss and libido in older ages - 'Your best sex ...

The Mirror 08 Jan 2026
Legendary Mirror columnist Dr Miriam Stoppard says those in their 60s, 70s and 80s are missing out on great sex. Intimacy in older age can be just as good, if not better, than it was when you were younger. Here's how... .
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Tom Stoppard, playwright whose last work explored his family’s buried Holocaust history, dies at 88

The American Israelite 02 Jan 2026
Tom Stoppard accepts the award for best new play for “Leopoldstadt” onstage during The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City, June 11, 2023 ... The occasion prompted an exchange that would shape Stoppard’s final work.
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Letter: Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

The Guardian 30 Dec 2025
Adrian Phillips has recounted the story that my father told him about how ...
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One for hardcore Stoppard fans: Indian Ink reviewed

The Spectator 22 Dec 2025
After the press night of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard, no one leapt up and cheered ... In this play, nothing matters to any of the characters because the show is just a cultural filing cabinet full of oddments that fascinate Stoppard.
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Tom Stoppard let us stage radio play ‘Darkside’ for free: Mumbai-based theatre director Atul Kumar

The Hindu 19 Dec 2025
The British playwright was quick to waive the royalty to Darkside so Kumar and his workshop participants could stage it ....
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Indian Ink review: Felicity Kendal adds poignancy to Tom Stoppard play

London Evening Standard 16 Dec 2025
In the wake of Tom Stoppard’s death this lush adaptation of one of his lesser works is given new charge ... .
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Indian Ink review – Felicity Kendal is formidable in emotional epitaph for Tom Stoppard

The Guardian 16 Dec 2025
A fortnight after West End playhouses dimmed their lights in tribute to Sir Tom Stoppard, Hampstead theatre’s stage lights rise on a revival of his 1995 play Indian Ink, ...
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‘A master of complications’: Felicity Kendal returns to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink after three decades

The Guardian 13 Dec 2025
• ‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright. I won’t, I promise, refer to Felicity Kendal as Tom Stoppard’s muse ... “Not this week.” Speaking to Stoppard’s ...
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