Beckett News

A Franklin man who works as a school bus driver in the township was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents in New Brunswick.

On his 50th birthday, Stephen Patrick Morrissey, formerly a skinny indy kid from Hulme, a dilapidated quarter of Manchester, will this morning receive the perfect present, the first serious academic study of his work which compares him to the Nobel prize-winner Samuel Beckett, and approvingly ranks him alongside some of the greats of literature: ...

This critical collection of essays devoted solely to Bowen's work and it is intended to broaden the critical framework of Bowen scholarship and to extend Bowen criticism by more clearly mapping her works' position in relation to contemporary critical concerns and its location in relation to twentieth-century literature generally.

James Moore, Naomi Mos and Frances Binder from "Cooler" As the Portland swan song of two of defunkt theatre's guiding spirits, co-artistic directors James Moore and Frances Binder, the ever-edgy, always intriguing little company offers a surprisingly engaging world-premiere production of Gary Winter's playfully poetic, if generally puzzling and ...

Think William Butler Yeats , and gorgeous Irish poetry comes to mind, not theatre.

Only pedants, fools and opportunists shun the obvious. The criminally obvious thing to say about this immensely important annunciation of a four-volume project is this: at the end of its 782 pages, Samuel Beckett isn't really Samuel Beckett yet.

In addition to frequent film roles and voicing animated hit movies, Wallace Shawn is a gifted playwright , whose 1978 play "Marie and Bruce" is the basis for this 2003 film about a married couple with issues, to put it mildly.

TEN scared-looking men sit on two intersecting benches in German-occupied France, nervously waiting to be called into a room by the Nazis who will decide their fates.

From left, Danny Boushebel and Mohammad Jamil Dagman are Iraqi brothers in "Baghdadi Bath," running through Sunday at La MaMa E.T.C. In the view of Jawad Al Assadi, modern-day Iraq is like a deserted bathhouse ...

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Near the outset of Keegan Theater's spare but sprightly mounting of Krapp's Last Tape , director David Bryan Jackson and actor Brian Hemmingsen allow themselves a little non-textual joke that feels at once ...

"Birdsong" , a lovely and strange new film by the Catalan director Albert Serra, is less a retelling of the Nativity story than a dream about it, filtered in lovely black and white through a sensibility that ...

The Memorial Hospital of Salem County has continued to respond proactively over time - mirroring the growth and changes in the county as a whole - and one fact remains steadfast: Our mission is to provide ...

A Festival Tracking New Theater All tix at The Public $15! Now thru Sun Jan 18 $15 TICKETS: 212-967-7555 or PUBLICTHEATER.ORG Seating is general admission for all UTR shows at The Public.

AWARDS SEASON came to Dublin yesterday with the announcement of the nominations in 37 categories for the sixth annual Irish Film and Television Awards .

A single mother of three who has medical problems wrote asking for help this Christmas.