Playwright Tom Stoppard, author of the play and film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as more than 30 other theater plays, has died.
Tom Stoppard, the author of the plays Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Leopoldstadt and others, has died at the age of 88, writes The Guardian. The British playwright went down in the history of the world stage as one of the most influential and inventive authors of our time. The play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” staged in 1966, brought him worldwide fame and instantly made the author a leader of the new theatrical language.