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.

Samuel Beckett’s Ladies Night continues through January 18 at Rec Room, 100 Jackson. For information, visit mildredsumbrella.com. Pay what you can.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.” ...