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 ...

Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love and 5x Tony-winning playwright, has died. He was 88. United Agents announced that Stoppard died “peacefully” on Saturday at his ...

Tom Stoppard, the Academy and Tony Award-winning British playwright and screenwriter, has died at the age of 88. Stoppard’s agents confirmed his death to the BBC, noting in a statement that he “died ...

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 ...

SMYRNA, Ga. — Award-winning playwright Olivia Matthews was tragically killed in a fire that investigators say was intentionally set at her apartment in Smyrna. Fire investigators are offering a reward ...

What if you could create your very own personal AI assistant—one that could research, analyze, and even interact with tools—all from scratch? It might sound like a task reserved for seasoned ...

This past March, Theatrical Outfit gave four talented playwrights the opportunity to develop and produce their own pieces as part of its Launchpad series. Falling under the umbrella of its Made in ...

“For over 30 years, it’s been one of life’s great pleasures to know Rich and his writing. Dazzling, humane, wildly funny,” Greenberg’s friend and theater director Robert Falls wrote. By McKinley ...

Kenneth Colley, who appeared in such films as “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” and “Monty Python’s Life of Brian,” is dead at the age of 87, TheWrap has learned. Colley’s agent, Julian Owen, said ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a playwright and a professor in the practice of theater and performance studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his play ...

He wrote musicals about the pioneering filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and worked for The STAGE Network, Audible Inc. and Black Broadway Men United. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Jesse L. Kearney Jr., a ...