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Tom Stoppard on Downstage Center XM Ch.28 Jan.25-30
The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present an interview with Tony Award winning playwright Tom Stoppard, on their weekly theatrical interview show, "Downstage Center."
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Rock 'n' Roll to Conclude Limited Run March 9
The limited engagement of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll will play its final performance at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre March 9; there will be no extension.
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Broadway Plays Its Strong Suit
At midseason, dramas steal the Rialto spotlight.
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Hit List: Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard names some albums, songs and artists that have had an impact on him.
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Nicole Ansari: Rock-ing to a Broadway Debut
Nicole Ansari has performed in plays and movies all over the world, but Rock 'n' Roll marks her Broadway debut.  She shared her journey toward being a Rock star with Broadway.com.
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Scene on Stage
Critics select the 5 best plays of 2007, including Rock 'n' Roll.
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Playlist with Rufus Sewell
Everyone has a music life, or a life in music.  Rufus Sewell stars in the Broadway play, “Rock ’n’ Roll,” where rock music serves as a kind of metaphor for Marxism, and, each night, between scenes, the Jacobs Theatre fills with a hale sampling.
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Rock and a Hard Place
Tom Stoppard has given us many dazzling plays, but in perhaps none of them, until now, does there exist any single figure as strong, as boldly limned, as domineering over all the others as Max Morrow, the unreconstructed old British Communist of Rock 'n' Roll.
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Stoppard Play Uses Rock Music to Stage a 'Revolution'
Playwright Tom Stoppard's latest work, Rock 'n' Roll, takes a new look at Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet Revolution, which toppled the then Soviet-backed Communist government. Jeffrey Brown looks at Stoppard's inspirations and talks to actors about portraying his characters.
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Actor Rufus Sewell on Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll"
Actor Rufus Sewell, who portrays Jan in the Broadway production of "Rock 'n' Roll", answers your questions in an interview with Jeffrey Brown.
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An Actor Uses Accent to Flesh Out His Character
Actors often use accents. But what Rufus Sewell does in his superb performance in "Rock 'n' Roll" is in a different realm.
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Brian Cox, Actor
Brian Cox is widely admired for commanding performances in films, but can now be seen in the role of Max, a diehard British Marxist and Cambridge professor in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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Rock 'n' Revolution
Countless rock bands have sung about rebellion. One of the few that can claim it spurred a revolution is the Plastic People of the Universe, who — starting with no political agenda — catalyzed democracy in Czechoslovakia.
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Stoppard Intrigues as Always With 'Rock'
Tom Stoppard's new play, Rock 'n' Roll, is, unsurprisingly, surprising.
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Heartbeat Sets Play's Rhythm
Tom Stoppard tunes in to emotions of his characters with latest play, Rock 'n' Roll.
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Stoppard Gets His Groove On
'Rock 'n' Roll' is music to the ears and mind.
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Stoppard's `Rock 'N' Roll' Lands in NY
The intoxicating spirit of freedom — political, cultural and social — flows throughout "Rock 'n' Roll," Tom Stoppard's surprisingly heartfelt drama set against the backdrop of more than two decades of turbulent Czech history.
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CZECH IT OUT!
Sir Tom Stoppard's new play "Rock 'n' Roll" is funny, enthralling and, yes, it offers you something to take out of the theater you didn't come in with.
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Stoppard Remixes Personal, Political in 'Rock 'n' Roll'
Known for his dazzling wit and the cerebral content of his plays, dramatist Tom Stoppard last came to Broadway with The Coast of Utopia, a nine-hour survey of 19th-century Russian intellectual history.
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Rock 'n' Roll Arrives on Broadway - Opening Night Party Pics!
The four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard, whose Coast of Utopia was the talk of the town last season, delivered his latest opus to Broadway this week, Rock 'n' Roll.
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Going to Prague in 1967, but Not Without His Vinyl
Get out your handkerchiefs, if you please, for “Rock ’n’ Roll,” the triumphantly sentimental new play by Tom Stoppard.
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'Rock 'N' Roll': Syd Barrett On Broadway
Tom Stoppard's latest play, "Rock 'n' Roll," begins in 1968, when a brief flowering of political liberalization in Communist Czechoslovakia was crushed by a Soviet military invasion.
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Actor Rufus Sewell Comes of Age
Rufus Sewell is having a busy week. On Sunday he opens in Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll," his second Broadway appearance. And this past Monday, Sewell, who first earned notice in England in Stoppard's "Arcadia" in 1993, turned 40.
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Beyond Utopia
Many kudos and criticisms have been directed at Tom Stoppard over his nearly fifty-year career—terribly inventive, too intellectual—yet few if any reviewers of his increasingly ambitious work have ever called him generous.
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Hot Seat with Tom Stoppard
The last time Tom Stoppard was on Broadway—with the eight-hour, three-part Russian epic The Coast of Utopia—the play was so dense that The New York Times actually printed a list of 11 books (Pushkin! Gogol!) under the heading REQUIRED PRETHEATER READING.
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Here's Looking at You, Syd
How did one of pop music's epic breakdowns—that of Pink Floyd's dashing, mentally ill, drug-addled front man, Syd Barrett—find a place in a drama about Communist Czechoslovakia? The author recalls the genesis of his most recent play, Rock 'n' Roll, a London hit which reaches Broadway this month.
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Elitist, Moi?
When his interviewer arrives, Tom Stoppard is standing outside the Broadway theater where his latest play, Rock 'n' Roll, is about to begin previews.
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Playbill.com's Brief Encounter with Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn, who directed the London premiere of the Rock 'n' Roll, is used to time-tripping with Stoppard, having directed the dramatist's Arcadia and The Coast of Utopia in its London premiere.
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