Tom Stoppard never insulted his audience’s intelligence. He counted on it. He set the bar very high, and trusted in our ability to clear it. Or at least to try. Stoppard, whose death at 88 in his home ...
LONDON — 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, ...