Los Angeles Theater Review: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Royal Theatre aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach)
THE TRIUMPH OF IRONY When Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (R&G) premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 1966, the critics hated it. While a poor production may have been partially to blame, the ensuing decades have certainly vindicated him. Stoppard’s talent for reworking Shakespeare earned him a 1999Â Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. [...]