Samuel Beckett’s life is reduced to mommy and daddy issues in a biopic that offers simple explanations for the career of a complex writer. By Ben Kenigsberg Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in ...

In an interview in the Shakespeare Theatre Company program, Bill Irwin explains that, as a boy, the future author of “Waiting for Godot” frequented the ...

Beckett’s work is mostly about inaction. “Nothing happens – it’s a masterpiece,” marvels a BBC producer. However, writing as an occupation isn’t very cinematic so Marsh recasts the magician of ...

“The interesting thing about back in those days, there was no contract for it,” says Bill Irwin, recalling the time, decades ago, when “music videos were cutting edge” and also “shown a thousand times ...

Bill Irwin transforms Samuel Beckett’s existential prose into an intimate, illuminating, and unexpectedly moving evening.

Works from two great playwrights who put experimentation with verbal communication at the heart of their work will be presented by celebrated international theatre companies this June. Caryl Churchill ...

Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work. By Jesse McKinley All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share ...