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Intimate, funny and anachronistically atmospheric, the Folger’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead () is rather like Tom Stoppard by way of someone’s rather fabulous attic. And, despite being a ...

Alex Hurt as Rosencrantz and Jeremy Webb as Guildenstern in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" at the Huntington Theatre Company. (Courtesy T Charles Erickson) If everyone is the hero of his or her ...

NEW YORK – Playwright Tom Stoppard’s first big hit starred two unlikely heroes – a pair of insignificant characters lifted from ‘Hamlet.’ ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ tells the absurdist ...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Two bit characters in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” They’re childhood friends of the prince of Denmark, who lately broods and seems to act from impulse – maybe it has something ...

For some, it happens every time we hear the news; for others, only when the clutter of daily life recedes long enough for a few moments’ undistracted thought. But every so often we find ourselves ...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, an absurdist, existential tragic-comedy written by British Playwright Tom Stoppard opened Friday evening amidst a room full of eager audience members and hearty ...

Put the prefix "meta" before any noun or adjective, and your listener will inevitably roll their eyes in exhaustion. "Meta-fiction." "Meta-programming." "Meta-theatrical." These are terms thrown ...

NEW YORK—Playwright Tom Stoppard’s first big hit starred two unlikely heroes—a pair of insignificant characters lifted from “Hamlet.” “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” tells the absurdist story ...

ONE YEAR AGO this week I was ready to pack my bags, leave this dreary place, and take up permanent residence in the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City. I had just seen a play called Rosencrantz and ...