Samuel Beckett

...for Godot" is about waiting for freedom. They are probably also right as Beckett himself wanted the play to be produced in the United States with an all-black cast during the Civil Rights movement. The production this weekend at Duke carries...

In this article: Waiting for Godot, God, Nespresso, Hurricane Katrina, Purgatory, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Anxiety

...the cutting-edge music and dance. On Sept. 26-27, the ICA will present the Classical Theatre of Harlem's production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot,'' which is set in post-Katrina New Orleans. The production debuted in 2006 in New...

In this article: Cirque du Soleil, Tennessee Williams, Agganis Arena, Boston, and Waiting for Godot

...publishers in Britain. Calder befriended Beckett in the Fifties, and after the success of Waiting for Godot in London, he added him to what reads like a VIP list of mid-century European or Europhile talent. Among Calder's writers were...

In this article: John Calder, Watt, Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Murphy, First Love, Endgame, Faber & Faber, and Malone Dies

...Central Square Theater). The ICA hosts the Classical Theatre of Harlem's production of "Waiting for Godot," which moves the action of Samuel Beckett's existential tragicomedy to post-Katrina New Orleans (Sept. 26-27). The Huntington Theatre...

In this article: American Repertory Theatre, Boston, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, World War II, Punchdrunk, Oberon, and Mister Roberts

...at the Duchess Theatre Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR Endgame is the masterpiece that sorts out the men from the boys when it comes to admirers of the bleak dramatic world of Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot, as the recent West End revival...

In this article: Endgame, Simon McBurney, Mark Rylance, Krapp's Last Tape, Waste, Global warming, and Happy Days

...in rallying American writers to his cause. A few years later, Sontag gained attention for directing Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot during the nearly four-year Siege of Sarajevo. Early in that conflict, Sontag referred to the War...

In this article: Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz, Sarajevo, Camille Paglia, Philosophy, The New Yorker, Maria Irene Fornes, David Rieff, Willa Cather, and Philip Rieff

...and discovered himself as a writer. Spoon played Pozzo in the 1988 production of Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" directed by Jan Jonson which brought him international attention. Since then, Spoon has written plays, poetry,...

In this article: Parole, Waiting for Godot, New Village Press, and Sweden

I first read Waiting For Godot when I was 15. Beckett's black humour and bracing nihilism appealed wonderfully to a suburban teenager in the throes of an existential crisis (the first of many). When Vladimir says, "In an instant all will...

In this article: Waiting for Godot, Nihilism, Penguin, and Sean Mathias