Stoppard may be the elder statesman among playwrights, but he began his career as the hip young Turk in the 1960s. Tony Awards 2023 nominations: Best prediction scores by our Editors and Users (revised)Įmmys flashback 30 years ago to 1993: 'Picket Fences' and 'Seinfeld' clean up Cooper’s “Ain’t No More” Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “Between Riverside and Crazy” Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living” and James Ijames’ “Fat Ham.”Įxperts slugfest: Is Sarah Snook the Best Drama Actress Emmy frontrunner for 'Succession'? It will be vying for the top prize against Jordon E. “Leopoldstadt” earned six nominations on May 2 including Best Play and best director for Patrick Marber. “ Stoppard, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937, lost all four of his grandparents in the Holocaust. Quite a lot of it is personal to me but I made it a Viennese family so that it wouldn’t seem to be about me. In an interview, Stoppard noted that the play “took a year to write but the gestation was much longer. The 85-year-old Stoppard is a strong contender to pick up his fifth Tony for his latest (and perhaps final) play “Leopoldstadt.” The acclaimed drama revolves around a wealthy Jewish family who had fled the programs in Eastern Europe and settled in Vienna. Tom Stoppard and the late Terrence McNally have won the most Tonys for a playwright taking home four each.
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