Look Back on the 19 Times a Tom Stoppard Play Was on Broadway

Theatrical luminary, and prolific scribe, Tom Stoppard passed away November 29 at the age of 88. During his career, Stoppard made Tony Awards history twice: He won the most Tony Awards out of any playwright in theatre history (with five Best Play Tonys), and his nine-hour play The Coast of Utopia holds the record for most Tony wins for a play, at seven.

Even more impressive? Throughout his career, Stoppard wrote an eye-opening 34 plays, and his work has appeared on Broadway 19 times (including multiple Broadway revivals of his work, such as two revivals of The Real Thing). And his plays had no shortage of celebrities clamoring to do them, whether it was Dame Maggie Smith in Night and Day; Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons in The Real Thing; Victor Garber in Arcadia; or Maggie Gyllenhaal, Cynthia Nixon, and Ewan McGregor in The Real Thing (the 2014 revival).

Look back on Stoppard's Broadway career in the gallery below (two of Stoppard's shows—Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Real Inspector Hound and the Fifteen Minute Hamlet—are not pictured, as those images are not in our archives).

Look Back at Tom Stoppard's Plays on Broadway

The_Real_Thing_Broadway_Production_Photo_1984_Christine Baranski_Glenn Close_HR — Look Back at Tom Stoppard's Plays on Broadway

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Playbill - Nov 1967 — *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead* (1967)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967 Brian Murray, Noel Craig, and John Wood HR — Brian Murray, Noel Craig, and John Wood in *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead*

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1967 Brian Murray and John Wood HR — Brian Murray and John Wood in *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead*

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Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead_Broadway_Production_Photo_1967_Brian Murray_John Wood _HR — Brian Murray and John Wood in *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead*

Jumpers Playbill - April 1974 — *Jumpers* (1974)

Travesties Playbill - Jan 1976 — *Travesties* (1976)

Tim Curry in Travesties — Tim Curry in *Travesties*

Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land Playbill - Jan 1977 — *Dirty Linen & New-Found-Land* (1977)

Night and Day Playbill - Nov 1979 — *Night and Day (*1979)

Night_and_Day_Broadway_Production_Photo_1979_Maggie Smith_01_HR — Maggie Smith in *Night and Day*

Night_and_Day_Broadway_Production_Photo_1979_Maggie Smith_Peter Evans_HR — Peter Evans and Maggie Smith in *Night and Day*

Night_and_Day_Broadway_Production_Photo_1979_Maggie Smith_Joseph Maher_HR — Maggie Smith and Joseph Maher in *Night and Day*

The Real Thing Playbill - Jan 1984 — *The Real Thing* (1984)

The_Real_Thing_Broadway_Production_Photo_1984_Glenn Close _HR.jpg — Glenn Close in *The Real Thing*

The_Real_Thing_Broadway_Production_Photo_1984_Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons_HR.jpg — Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons in *The Real Thing*

Artist Descending a Staircase Playbill - Nov 1989 — *Artist Descending a Staircase* (1989)

Arcadia Playbill - Opening Night, March 1995 — *Arcadia* (1995)

Robert Sean Leonard and Blair Brown in *Arcadia*

Billy Crudup in Arcadia — Billy Crudup in *Arcadia*

Victor Garber in Arcadia — Victor Garber in *Arcadia*

Robert Sean Leonard in Arcadia — Robert Sean Leonard in *Arcadia*

The Real Thing Playbill - Opening Night — *The Real Thing* (2000)

Jennifer Ehle in The Real Thing — Jennifer Ehle in *The Real Thing*

Stephen Dillane in The Real Thing — Stephen Dillane in *The Real Thing*

Charlotte Parry and Stephen Dillane in The Real Thing — Charlotte Parry and Stephen Dillane in *The Real Thing*

Sarah Woodward and Stephen Dillane in The Real Thing — Sarah Woodward and Stephen Dillane in *The Real Thing*

Invention of Love Playbill - Opening Night — *The Invention of Love* (2001)

Robert Sean Leonard and Richard Easton in <i>The Invention of Love</i>. — Robert Sean Leonard and Richard Easton in *The Invention of Love*

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Jumpers Playbill - Opening Night, April 2004 — *Jumpers* (2004)

Simon Russell Beale from the 2004 Broadway production of <i>Jumpers</i>. — Simon Russell Beale in 2004 Broadway production of *Jumpers*

The Coast of Utopia Playbill - Opening Night — The Coast of Utopia Playbill (2006)

Hamilton and Plimpton — Josh Hamilton and Martha Plimpton

Plimpton and O'Byrne — Martha Plimpton and Brian F. O'Byrne

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