What’s most surprising about the excellent Geffen Playhouse production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” starring ... Lovett gives us a different image of this capitalist authoritarian.

and it’s easy to apply the image to countless situations around the world today. “Nothing happens, twice,” was the infamous ...

On a literal level, it is about two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting on a country road for another man named Godot. “While they wait, they bicker, they banter, they amuse themselves,” Shane ...

Samuel Beckett invented absurdist theater when he emerged with WAITING FOR GODOT in 1953. His play jettisons any notion of plot, exposition, characterization, setting, or dialogue. It is ...

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 ...

“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, ...

Waiting For Godot will play Broadway’s Hudson Theatre with preview performances beginning Saturday, September 13 for a Sunday, September 28 opening night. This strictly limited engagement will ...

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. First performed in Paris in 1953, the two-act play with two bowler-hatted and red-nosed characters, Vladimir and Estragon, spurred one critic, the playwright ...

See About archive blog posts. In 2009, 102 years after Samuel Beckett’s birth, two productions of his classic ‘Waiting for Godot’ will be launched simultaneously in New York and London.

The actor played Dr. Rank in that Tony-nominated production. Waiting For Godot will play Broadway’s Hudson Theatre with preview performances beginning Saturday, September 13, ahead of a Sunday ...

Bill & Ted are planning another excellent adventure: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will star in a Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in fall 2025, with Jamie Lloyd directing.