Tom Stoppard was introduced to U.S. audiences with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
(1967), followed by Jumpers, The Real Inspector Hound, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with Andre Previn), Dirty Linen, Night and Day, The Real Thing, Artist Descending a Staircase, Hapgood, Arcadia, Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage at Lincoln Center, which won seven Tony Awards®. His other plays include After Magritte. Translations and adaptations include Undiscovered Country (Schnitzler), On the Razzle (Nestroy), Rough Crossing (Molnar), Henry IV (Pirandello) and Heroes (Sibleyras). Film scripts as writer and co-writer include Brazil, Empire of the Sun, Enigma and Shakespeare in Love, which won him an Oscar and a BAFTA award. He directed his own screenplay of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which won the Golden Lion and the Venice Film Festival.
Rock 'n' Roll is an extraordinary theatrical event, from four-time Tony Award® winner Tom Stoppard (The Coast of Utopia) and played on Broadway following a record-breaking run in London's West End. It's August 1968, and Russian tanks are rolling in to Prague... Jan, the Czech student, lives for rock music, Max, the English professor, lives for Communism, and Esme, the flower child, is high. By 1990, the tanks are rolling out, the Stones are rolling in and idealism has hit the wall. Stoppard's sweeping and passionate play spans two countries, three generations and 22 turbulent years, at the end of which, love remains - and so does rock 'n' roll.
Rock 'n' Roll received its world premiere at the Royal Court as part of their 50th Anniversary celebration and subsequently transferred to the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, where the sold-out production ran for many months. It is the winner of the London Evening Standard Theatre Award and London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play. Rock 'n' Roll opened on Broadway on November 4, 2007.
