The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) continues their successful season themed “Take Flight” with the Main Stage production of Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking tragicomedy, Waiting for Godot.
Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989, banned ...
No one ever goes gentle into the night of Samuel Beckett. No one jumps in excitement at the chance to see one of his plays. Calling his works “plays” is an oxymoron. They are bleak and dark, ...
Having premiered in Paris in 1953, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece was first performed in English in London in 1955 – and was promptly named "Most Controversial Play" at the inaugural Evening Standard ...
What’s most surprising about the excellent Geffen Playhouse production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” starring Rainn Wilson (“The Office” and Aasif Mandvi (“The Daily Show,” “This Way Up”), ...
At the top of the show, Keanu Reeves’ Estragon and Alex Winter’s Vladimir make a “1990s” reference to their past life together. No matter that “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” came out in 1989.
Samuel Beckett invented absurdist theater when he emerged with WAITING FOR GODOT in 1953. His play jettisons any notion of plot, exposition, characterization, setting, or dialogue. It is almost more ...
PITTSFIELD – On Jan. 5, 1953, a small four-character play written in French by an Irish playwright opened at the intimate Theatre de Babylone on Paris' Left Bank. Two years later, “En Attendant Godot” ...
The Thunder River Theatre Company opens their production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett on Feb. 16. Directed by Renee Prince at the TRTC, Beckett’s absurdist tragicomic play comes to Carbondale.
There’s a fascinating, mind-bending production of “Waiting For Godot” now being presented by Creekside Arts (an Ink People DreamMaker Project) at the Synapsis (also a DreamMaker) venue in Eureka. And ...
At the top of the show, Keanu Reeves' Estragon and Alex Winter's Vladimir make a "1990s" reference to their past life together. No matter that "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" came out in 1989.