A standard compliment for a skillful actor is "he could recite the telephone book and make it fascinating." A more lavish compliment would be "he could even recite Samuel Beckett's' 'Texts for Nothing ...

Bill Irwin knows that we are blessed to live in a world that was graced by the great Irish poet, dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett. His show "On Beckett," at ACT's Strand Theater through Jan. 22, ...

STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING by Samuel Beckett. 140 pages. Grove. $5. Some writers chronicle men on their way up; others tackle men on their way down. Samuel Beckett stalks after men on their way out ...

Few people are funnier than Bill Irwin. He is a clown, after all. The laugh-so-hard-it-hurts shows that he has performed in Seattle are "Fool Moon," "Scapin," "Largely New York" and "The Regard of ...

“On Beckett” is about nothing and everything. To describe it would do us all a disservice. The one-man thought experiment, conceived and performed by self-proclaimed Samuel Beckett non-scholar Bill ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — When Bill Irwin talks about how the language of Samuel Beckett “has gone viral,” he becomes a walking, writhing index of a contagion’s symptoms. This is a grave and incurable condition in ...

“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 can’t escape Samuel Beckett. He has spent a lifetime captivated by the Irish writer’s language. In this intimate 90-minute evening, Irwin will explore a performer’s relationship to Beckett, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Bill Irwin still can’t escape Samuel Beckett. The MacArthur Fellow has spent a ...