Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1969. Here, Beckett scholar Michael Coffey reminds us of the ...

"There's so much room for interpretation with this script. There's so many different ways you can play it," said James Barcomb, one of five actors bringing Samuel Beckett's classic "Waiting for Godot" ...

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter talk Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." ...

After years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway. By Melena Ryzik and Dana Scruggs The star actor returns to the theater ...

IrishCentral Contributor Walter Murphy reviews Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," starring Stephen Rea at NYU's Skirball ...

Beckett’s characters are clearly haunted in works like Rockaby, Footfalls, and Ohio Impromptu, which runs this weekend in a production by Other Only Windows at Raleigh’s Pure Life Theatre. Director ...

At the sound of a piercing bell Winnie wakes and exclaims, "Another heavenly day." Even though she is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, Winnie - ever the optimist - goes about her day ...

For Samuel Beckett, it was never words and music, no matter that they were personified in his 1962 radio play, “Words and Music.” It was ever words are music. Reputed to have been a fine musician ...

Bill Irwin, the greatest living clown to have won a Tony Award for a dramatic performance, obviously has a spine, but it’s far more elastic than yours or mine. He can shrink or grow, fast or slow, on ...

It's overwhelmingly tempting for any critic, when writing about a production of Samuel Beckett works, to begin a review by penning paragraph after paragraph on the brilliance of the man, the work he ...

Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn’t mind the smell of corpses. “A ...

Samuel Beckett’s life is reduced to mommy and daddy issues in a biopic that offers simple explanations for the career of a complex writer. By Ben Kenigsberg Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in ...