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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"

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

Rick Cluchey

We are sad to report that Rick Cluchey, the performer, playwright, and famed Beckett interpreter and collaborator, passed away on the evening of December 28, 2015. From his first experience with Beckett's work, while serving a life sentence in San Quentin prison, Cluchey remained a prolific theatre artist, founding the San Quentin Drama Workshop b...

Rick Cluchey

Having 'Salad' - and Eating It, Too

The Center Theatre Group Writers’ Workshop, a program designed to foster the next generation of great American playwrights, has generated approximately 70 new plays in the past decade. Many of these shows have gone on to acclaimed world premieres, but only two have made their way back to Center Theatre Group’s stages. The second is Sheila Calla...

Having 'Salad' - and Eating It, Too

Inside Sandbox @ CTG: Feral Drives, Fierce Women: A Conversation with Sheila Callaghan

Center Theatre Group recently invited donors, Kirk Douglas Theatre subscribers and the general public to the KDT’s rehearsal room for a special DouglasPlus event called Sandbox@CTG. The Sandbox is an opportunity for our audiences to meet CTG’s family of artists and to participate in the creative process by attending readings of new works a...