It would be hard to imagine a genre more antithetical to the modernist sensibility of Samuel Beckett than the biopic. The Irish writer who relocated to Paris, found inspiration in the French language ...

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 ...

The inaugural Samuel Beckett Biennale will open this March with an AI-enabled production of the playwright's celebrated work ...

In this exclusive clip from "Dance First," a young Samuel Beckett meets James Joyce in Paris for the first time. In "Dance First," Irish actors Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O'Shea masterfully play Beckett, ...

Stephen Prina may have been one of the first to see a deeper pattern in Mr. Reeves’s work. By Jesse McKinley All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share ...

Irish actors Gabriel Byrne and Aidan Gillen have joined the cast of the upcoming Samuel Beckett biopic, "Dance First." Titled after Beckett's famous adage “Dance first, think later,” the film is a ...

An apocalypse has engulfed the world outside. A single interior stands shelter to the blind tyrant Hamm, his weary attendant Clov, and Hamm’s parents Nagg and Nell. Hamm is paralyzed from the waist ...

Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn’t mind the smell of corpses. “A ...

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in Arin Arbus’s pandemic-delayed production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. By Laura Collins-Hughes There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the ...