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Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati take this production to a whole new level

Evening Standard

Waiting for Godot review – Beckett’s classic tragicomedy is more comedic than tragic

James Macdonald’s production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for owners: former Chelsea home of Samuel Beckett for sale for £5.5m

48 Paultons Square has been home to two Nobel Prize winners: dramatist Samuel Beckett, who lived there in 1934, and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969

Evening Standard

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Venice Dance Biennale: There Was Still Time; Folklore Dynamics review – full of ideas and intent

Hip-hop meets Samuel Beckett in one of two new commissions by Italian choreographers, while the other struggles under the weight of its ambition

The Guardian - UK

Bill And Ted To Star In Broadway Revival Of Waiting For Godot

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite for a Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, directed by Jamie Lloyd. Exciting stage reunion of iconic actors.

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Keanu Reeves set to reunite with Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter on Broadway

The pair will appear together in a production of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’

The Independent UK

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter

The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd

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The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment

The Guardian - UK

Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

The Guardian - UK

Compagnie Maguy Marin: May B review – an absurdly beautiful dance translation of Samuel Beckett

The French choreographer’s 1981 interpretation of the playwright’s world rewards patience with its magic and precision

The Guardian - UK

The Swimmer, Russian thugs, Jesus’ feet: Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

The Conversation

‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool

Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024

The Guardian - UK

‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more

The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work

The Guardian - UK

‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot

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Knife by Salman Rushdie review – a story of hatred defeated by love

A book its author ‘would much rather not have needed to write’ ranges far beyond his attempted murder and recovery

The Guardian - UK

Women have found their voice in Turkey, and given hope to others fighting for democracy across the globe

Big opposition wins in last week’s elections reasserted the country’s liberal, secular values, says novelist Elif Shafak

Louder

“Lyrically, it’s something that makes Samuel Beckett sound like Tommy Cooper." Tim Bowness and the story of Flowers At The Scene

Tim Bowness may explore morose subjects like murder and divorce on his new album, but this collection of “cinematic short stories”, featuring an impressive prog line-up, is certainly not all doom and gloom…

The Guardian - UK

Who dares clown around with Waiting for Godot?

Letters: Sarah-Jane Watkinson, Brendan Mulcahy and Jude Emmet reply to a letter that called for adding circus stunts to Samuel Beckett’s play

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The Guardian - UK

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece

There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Dynamo escapes being buried alive during a live broadcast

Before he gets boxed in, the magician talks to Chris Martin, Tony Hawk and other celebrities about mental health. Plus, vets help pets give birth. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to Adaptation: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Harrison Ford returns for a final crack of the whip, and Spike Jonze’s classic meta comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep

The Guardian - UK

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot

Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September

The Conversation

Lydia Davis' amusing, insightful stories address the estrangements of everyday life – and resist the hollowing of language

Lydia Davis is known for her minimalist fiction – “economy, precision and originality” is how the author Ali Smith once described her style. Her shortest story, Index Entry, amounts to just four words:

The Guardian - UK

Tony Rohr obituary

Actor known for screen roles in The Long Good Friday and Harry’s Game, and as a stalwart of the Joint Stock Theatre Group

The Guardian - UK

Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne

Byrne is a good fit as the conflicted writer, but James Marsh’s crisp biographical film feels at odds with the passion of Beckett’s work

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