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Alan Mandell and Barry McGovern on Playing Beckett, Past and Present

Alan Mandell and Barry McGovern on Playing Beckett, Past and Present

Famous Actors Who Have Played Beckett's "Endgame"

In Endgame, which plays the Kirk Douglas Theatre April 24 – May 22, 2016, one character is blind and unable to stand, one is unable to sit, and two spend the entirety of the play squatting in ash bins. One would expect actors to be less than excited by the prospect of performing any of the four roles in Samuel Beckett’s famous tragicomedy,...

Famous Actors Who Have Played Beckett's "Endgame"

Down the Rabbit Hole with "Through the Looking Glass"

Just days after Christmas, if you happened to stroll past a nondescript, dark-curtained storefront—the one just beyond the costume shop and the tax preparer along West Whittier Boulevard—most likely, you wouldn’t have looked twice. You wouldn’t have known that something magical was at work; that while a play was being made, a bridge wa...

Down the Rabbit Hole with "Through the Looking Glass"

Samuel Beckett in Prison

It was December 1974—one of those monochromatic winter days in Paris when the sky, the streets, and the river all seem to turn the same shade of gray.

Samuel Beckett in Prison