Since its premiere in 1952, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (that’s GOD-oh, not guh-DOH) has captivated theatergoers of all stripes. The absurdist masterpiece pulls off the impossible, transfixing ...

The Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett's existential masterpiece “Waiting for Godot” has recouped its initial investment of $7.5 million in eight weeks. The show has been a hot ticket thanks to the ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Off-Broadway & beyond. Since their first appearance in a tiny Paris theatre in 1953, Beckett’s iconic down-and-outs Vladimir and Estragon have rarely been off the ...

Eight times a week, Alex Winter takes the stage in a bowler hat and an expression of marked confusion. He is Vladimir, one half of a curious pair of fellows anticipating the arrival of one Mr. Godot.

This post was updated Dec. 1 at 9:52 p.m. “Waiting for Godot” gives exactly what it promises, for better or worse. Famously described as “a play in which nothing happens,” Samuel Beckett’s 1952 ...

PITTSFIELD — Toward the end of the first act of Samuel Beckett’s ”Waiting For Godot” and again near the end of the play, Estragon turns to Vladimir and wonders whether the two might not be better off ...

Samuel Beckett invented absurdist theater when he emerged with WAITING FOR GODOT in 1953. His play jettisons any notion of plot, exposition, characterization, setting, or dialogue. It is almost more ...

There may never be a play more obscure, conceptually, than "Waiting for Godot." And there may never be actors less obscure than the ones who have clamored, for over 50 years, to be in it. Bert Lahr, ...

No one ever goes gentle into the night of Samuel Beckett. No one jumps in excitement at the chance to see one of his plays. Calling his works “plays” is an oxymoron. They are bleak and dark, ...

Eckmann: It's hard to say whether or not the production will land in the revival category without having seen its competitors. But I will point out the the accessibility of the script is what helped ...

(L-R): Greg Dean as Vladimir, Kyle Sturdivant as Pozzo, and Charlie Scott as Estragon in The Catastrophic Theatre’s 2013 production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” There are two things you ...

“Waiting for Godot” has undergone every possible directorial interpretation since its 1953 debut; absurdist masterpiece, religious playground, wartime resistance, existential fodder, and homoerotic ...