The new Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” lends some celebrity glamor, in the form of the actor Keanu Reeves, to what has to be one of the bleakest works ever set to the ...
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 ...
It takes great actors to make Samuel Beckett’s modernist comedy masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, work. As the character Estragon exclaims toward the play, “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, ...
Alex Winter, Michael Patrick Thornton, Brandon J. Dirden, and Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot. Photo: Andy Henderson Alex Winter, Michael Patrick Thornton, Brandon J. Dirden, and Keanu Reeves in ...
Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of new festival celebrating Irish playwright ...
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.
Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd verbiage to ...
It’s a production characterised by an intensely defined physicality. Set against a gorgeous, arid landscape by Rae Smith, traditional clownery smoothly results in sophisticated slapstick moments that ...
Let's go back in time — to 1989 — when movie-goers first met the dopey but adorable time-traveling headbangers in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." The film put actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter ...