Beckett News

To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mantua Township residents for electing me to the township committee last year for a one-year unexpired term.

Good morning! Let's begin this busy day of theater news with a roundup of major new shows from London.

Ruthlessness reigns in twisted 'Le Monde' Jordan Harrison is Mint and Larry Coen is Hall in "The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde.'' 'Have pity on a broken and desperate soul,'' an anguished character named Mint pleads during "The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde.'' But pity is in short supply - make that nonexistent - in this ...

Beckett and Havel have been paired many times in analyses of their writing. But did you know each wrote a play for the other? The Guardian has a moving story this week on the relationship between the two titanic playwrights--alas, one that had to remain long-distance, due to one of the men's long term imprisonment.

In Dan Brown's long-awaited new book, we learn many things - about Freemasons, the CIA, fifteenth-century engraver Albrecht Durer's employment of Sudoku.

Above, Delante Keys and Alex Bechtel interact with multiple video screens during a rehearsal for "Fatebook: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party at a Time," which brings to life characters from New Paradise Laboratories who have been on Facebook.

The Amazon Queen is put out. Hercules and other warring males are muscling in on her and her gals.

One of L.A.'s most enduring musical hits is going on the road, on a national tour, with the aim of sliding into Broadway at some point.

Earlier this summer, Greg Bode, a Life Scout with Logan Township Boy Scout Troop 4 - with the help of 18 volunteers - painted the fire hydrant bonnets in many of the Beckett area housing developments with a special reflective paint.

Happy Days: Cosmic comedy. By Samuel Beckett. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. With Patty Gallagher and Dan Hiatt.

Starting last March--and continuing through January of next year--readers will receive no less than three new translations of books from the major Austro-Hungarian modernist writer Jakov Lind .

"WHAT BECOMES" IS A GRACEFUL title. A touch Beckettian perhaps, but let's not be picky.

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.