Samuel Beckett and Samuel D. Hunter might seem to have little in common other than a first name. Beckett is among the most revered playwrights of the 20th century, while Mr. Hunter is a comparatively ...

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right senses. Then it passes off, and I'm as intelligent as ever.” Samuel Beckett’s "Endgame," currently playing at the Irish Arts Center under the superb direction of ...

ENDGAME was first produced in a French-language version presented in London’s Royal Court Theatre in April of 1957. The play is written by Irish author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), who is most known ...

If Ebenezer Scrooge found himself isolated in a post-apocalyptic setting, with no one but his elderly parents and his long-suffering servant to haunt his monotonous days, he would probably behave like ...

An apocalypse has engulfed the world outside. A single interior stands shelter to the blind tyrant Hamm, his weary attendant Clov, and Hamm’s parents Nagg and Nell. Hamm is paralyzed from the waist ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share the human desire to hear the same tales again ...

When Endgame premiered in 1957, the world was rebuilding from war and living under the shadow of nuclear annihilation. Nearly seven decades later, in a culture steeped in apocalyptic imagery, Samuel ...

Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola, lovers of the bleak and bizarre, have produced plays at the edgy Torn Space Theater with religious hysteria, the habits of the Marquis de Sade and playwright Sarah Kane ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FARMINGTON — Emery Community Arts Center in Farmington presents Samuel ...