Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter
The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd
July 2024
The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?
Galway international arts festival: Reunion; Endgame – review
June 2024
Beckett Unbound: Krapp’s Last Tape; All That Fall – review
Denis Lavant is remarkable as old man Krapp in Beckett’s minor masterpiece, while Adrian Dunbar shrouds his short radio play in total darkness
May 2024
‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool
Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024
February 2024
Who dares clown around with Waiting for Godot?
Brief letters
Waiting for Godot to send in more clowns
January 2024
Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece
There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality
December 2023
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot
Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September
November 2023
Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne
Byrne is a good fit as the conflicted writer, but James Marsh’s crisp biographical film feels at odds with the passion of Beckett’s work
The last word
Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature
The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman
Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment
Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance
September 2023
Brief letters
The song that lifted the veil of dementia
Brief letters: Music and dementia | NHS no-show fines | Baseball cap etiquette | Imbeciles at No 10 | Keep it to yourself
‘A lot of biopics depend on likeness – this is braver’: Gabriel Byrne on playing Samuel Beckett
The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles
The Guardian view on class in Britain: the government doesn’t want to talk about it
Editorial: Social mobility is being redefined because the Conservatives need election-ready political narratives
August 2023
Prom 43: Endgame review – music brings compassion to Beckett’s austere drama
For its UK premiere, György Kurtág’s opera faced a challenge summoning the play’s claustrophobia in this venue, but performances and players were superb
July 2023
Happy Days review – Siobhán McSweeney brings masterful touch to Beckett’s masterpiece
The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review
May 2023
Happy Days review – Judith Lucy is wonderfully disturbing in Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece
Sumner Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company The former stand-up is a natural fit for the role of Winnie, a tragic woman attempting to stave off hopelessness in the face of great horror
April 2023
‘I just don’t want to crack jokes’: Judith Lucy on stopping standup – and starting Samuel Beckett
After years of panic attacks, the beloved Australian comedian realised her job was making her unhappy. Now she’s back on stage – as an actor in Beckett’s tragicomedy Happy Days
