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” ...

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, ...

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.

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.

(L-R): Greg Dean as Vladimir, Kyle Sturdivant as Pozzo, and Charlie Scott as Estragon in The Catastrophic Theatre’s 2013 production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” There are two things you ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — Toward the end of the first act of Samuel Beckett’s ”Waiting For Godot” and again near the end of the play, Estragon turns to Vladimir and wonders whether the two might not be better off ...

It’s not often you can describe an outdoor production beset by rainfall as unforgettable, in a good way. But seeing Waiting for Godot amid the rolling, panoramic upland outside Enniskillen – the ...

OBERLIN, Ohio — In life, the Irish writer Samuel Beckett made his intentions, unlike his famously opaque plays, clear. He did not, under any circumstances, want women to appear in “Waiting for Godot.” ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Only once have I seen an audience walk out on a dramatic performance. In the second act of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (written 1952), there weren’t enough people in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre ...