Irish Central

Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" at The Irish Rep is moving and amusing

Set in a barren world at the end of time, "Endgame" is Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's gorgeous meditation on the absurdity of life in the face of certain death. If there's one thing the pandemic ...
BroadwayWorld

ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett at The Catastrophic Theatre

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 ...
Forbes

Final, In-Person Performances Of Irish Rep’s ‘Endgame’ To Be Livestreamed Worldwide

The final, four, in-person, sold-out performances of Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” will be livestreamed worldwide. Portrait of Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906 - ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

The final chess move is getting closer: Here’s what the actors think of it

The actors from Thunder River Theatre Company are excited to put on Endgame by Samuel Beckett and to show the world their interpretation of the wide-reaching play. Directed by Renee Prince at the TRTC ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Still ‘Waiting for Godot?’ Go see the final move, ‘Endgame,’ instead

The Thunder River Theatre Company opens their production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett on Feb. 16. Directed by Renee Prince at the TRTC, Beckett’s absurdist tragicomic play comes to Carbondale.
The Brooklyn Paper

‘Endgame’ comes to BAM

Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” debuts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) featuring a cast that includes John Turturro (Hamm), Max Casella as Clov, veteran classical actor Alvin Epstein will play Nagg ...
The Australian

Samuel Beckett’s Endgame: depth of nothingness from post-war classic

This classic absurdist text is like music, a series of enunciations and gestures that, meaningless or at best banal by themselves, in combination and reiteration begin to build a pattern of behaviour ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Endgame’: Theater Review

Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe team up as master and servant desperate for closure in Samuel Beckett’s existential masterwork, 'Endgame.' By Demetrios Matheou When an ancient woman seeing out her ...
BroadwayWorld

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett has written 23 shows including Embers (Playwright), Play/ The Lover (Playwright), Krapp's Last Tape/ The Zoo Story (Playwright), Happy Days (Playwright), Oh! Calcutta! (Material), Jack ...
Playbill

John Douglas Thompson and Bill Irwin Open Beckett's Endgame Off-Broadway February 2 John Douglas Thompson and Bill Irwin Open Beckett's Endgame Off-Broadway February 2

Irish Repertory Theatre's production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame officially opens February 2 after beginning previews January 25 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage. A limited run is planned ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Fin de partie’ Review: Beauty in the Bleakness of ‘Endgame’

The bleakness of György Kurtág’s opera “Fin de partie” (“Endgame”), now playing at the Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier, could be a commentary on that theater’s ornamental excess: The opera’s four aged ...
Variety

Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming in ‘Endgame’: Theater Review

The idea that Samuel Beckett’s plays are actually funny in performance is considerably more honored in theory than in practice. But happily, a rare pairing of his “Endgame” and the little-seen “Rough ...