All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share the human desire to hear the same ...
Set in a barren world at the end of time, "Endgame" is Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's gorgeous meditation on the absurdity of life in the face of certain death. If there's one thing the pandemic ...
A pair of new productions—a Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and a revived classic off-Broadway from the Irish company Druid—reveal surprising affinities between the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter ...
The idea that Samuel Beckett’s plays are actually funny in performance is considerably more honored in theory than in practice. But happily, a rare pairing of his “Endgame” and the little-seen “Rough ...
An apocalypse has engulfed the world outside. A single interior stands shelter to the blind tyrant Hamm, his weary attendant Clov, and Hamm’s parents Nagg and Nell. Hamm is paralyzed from the waist ...
Like all classic works of art, Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” is both ageless and ever timely. But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today. During the pandemic many of us spent days and ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The play opens on Clov, who staggers into the room and begins what appear ...
The next production at Briar Cliff University draws several analogies between a popular game and mortality. "Endgame," by avant-garde playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Samuel ...
There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play. By Laura Collins-Hughes The dog is a small, stuffed toy, pathetic and ...
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.
The idea that Samuel Beckett’s plays are actually funny in performance is considerably more honored in theory than in practice. But happily, a rare pairing of his “Endgame” and the little-seen “Rough ...