Entertainment & Arts
As public discourse reaches new lows online, the star of “On Beckett” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre reflects on Beckett’s incredibly precise writing.
Sept. 18, 2019
GOING TO GODOT: Samuel Beckett’s best-known work, “Waiting for Godot,” begins previews at the Alternative Repertory Theatre in Santa Ana Jan. 12. . . .
Dec. 27, 1989
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Dec. 18, 2009
Books
It was “More Pricks Than Kicks” that made me fall in love with Samuel Beckett.
July 1, 2014
Tony winner Bill Irwin brings an obsession for the Irish playwright and a genius for physical comedy to “On Beckett,” now onstage in Culver City.
Sept. 20, 2019
While in quarantine, waiting for deliveries that don’t arrive, a theater critic discovers just how much Beckett captured the truths of our existence.
May 25, 2020
The publicity-shy author Samuel Beckett has been persuaded to direct his three most famous plays for television, it was announced Wednesday.
June 9, 1988
‘The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940’ edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
March 18, 2009
Vivian Mercier, 70, an Irish literary critic and academic whose published works include a major study on the work of Samuel Beckett.
Nov. 7, 1989
Much like a nettle, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist plays must be firmly grasped or else they can sting the unwary interpreter.
Nov. 5, 2013