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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...