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.

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's ...

Starting with "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" in 1966, through his final full-length play "Leopoldstadt" in 2020, ...

Tom Stoppard died at 88. In plays like 'Travesties' and 'Leopoldstadt,' he examined what it means to live an important life.

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s ...

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades ...

In works like “Travesties” and “Arcadia,” the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, ...