Why Jack O'Brien Always Looks for the Emotional Core in Tom Stoppard - The three-time Tony winner on directing the New York premiere of 'The Hard Prob
The three-time Tony winner on directing the New York premiere of The Hard Problem---Parsing the nature of consciousness sounds like a subject for a research think tank, not an Off-Broadway show. But Tom Stoppard has spent his 50-year career crafting dazzling intellectual plays (Travesties, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia) that distill a wide range of complex topics into witty and stimulating theatre. The 81-year-old Bri…