By Laura Collins-Hughes Samuel Beckett left as little as possible to chance when he wrote “Waiting for Godot,” a play that, 70 years after its first production, usually looks substantially the ...

Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989 ...

What’s most surprising about the excellent Geffen Playhouse production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” starring Rainn Wilson (“The Office” and Aasif Mandvi (“The Daily Show ...

Rainn Wilson is Vladimir, and Aasif Mandvi is Estragon. The two characters find themselves in a perpetual cycle of waiting for the elusive stranger Godot. (Jeff Lorch) Irish critic Vivian Mercier ...

I remember reading a Samuel Beckett book during my college days titled “Waiting for Godot.” Beckett was an Irish novelist, short story writer, theater director, poet and playwright.

Since its premiere in 1952, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (that’s GOD-oh, not guh-DOH) has captivated theatergoers of all stripes. The absurdist masterpiece pulls off the impossible ...

“When it premiered, it was a hand grenade,” said Joe Calarco, who is directing Barrington Stage Company's production of this seminal play at BSC’s St. Germain Stage on Linden Street, ...