In the eyes of playwright Samuel Beckett, these longtime friends staring down oblivion in WAITING FOR GODOT, they are all of us. At the outset, at least, Wilson’s Didi is the optimist.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe. Is it about capitalism? Maybe." By Jordan Riefe During the 1953 world premiere of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, at Paris’ Théâtre de Babylone, the curtain ...

It's an undramatic drama in which two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, "battle against the meaningless of life, waiting in a blasted ... absurdity and tragicomedy. "Godot isn't for everyone.

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 ...