Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic is in two acts, and my drama was far from over. I called the misnamed express delivery service and was placed on hold. A half-hour later I hung up.

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Theater review: In ‘On Beckett,’ Bill Irwin delivers a lecture-demonstration that’s anything but old hat The actor-clown delves into the delve-worthy legendary writer Samuel Beckett in this ...

The End — the big one — is prefigured in “Endgame,” Samuel Beckett’s bracing portrait of humanity’s benighted shuffle to doomsday. Hamm, who’s lost most of his faculties (save ...

The theatre company in the story says this: “Fuck. The. Estate.” I don’t know if I myself would make so bold a statement, but ...

Samuel Beckett is widely revered as the master playwright of the theater of the absurd, as well as a fearless chronicler of the human condition. Bill Irwin adds another accolade: Author of some of ...

One of Samuel Beckett's favorite things about himself—and this depression-prone man probably didn't have many—was that he'd been born on a Good Friday that was also Friday the 13th.

Cannes: James Marsh on Bringing a Surprisingly “Playful” Samuel Beckett to the Screen in ‘Dance First’ The film — now complete and starring Gabriel Byrne as the Irish literary icon ...

In his 1980 short story “Company,” Samuel Beckett begins one paragraph with the sentences: “Another trait its repetitiousness. Repeatedly with only minor variants the same bygone.” ...