Wednesday, February 14, 2024

A Leap in the Dark review – drama paying homage to the dawn of radio falls flat by Mark Fisher

New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeRon Hutchinson’s comedy marks 100 years since the first radio play but succumbs to cliches and jarring humour Playwright Ron Hutchinson sets his tribute to the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM
Sunday, February 4, 2024

Waiting for Godot to send in more clowns | Brief letters by Guardian Staff

Circussy classics | Secondhand clothes | Curtain calls | Cold showers Lyndsey Winship’s review (Ockham’s Razor: Tess review – circus spin finds light and laughter in Thomas Hardy’s t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to Star in West End Revival of Waiting for Godot by Andrew Gans

The limited engagement will play the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AM

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

Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September Ben Whishaw is to star in a new London production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for God…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks-Led Waiting for Godot Extends Off-Broadway For the 2nd Time by Meg Masseron

The long-awaited Theatre for a New Audience production was originally slated for March 2020.

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PM
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks-Led Waiting for Godot Extends Off-Broadway by Meg Masseron

The long-awaited Theatre for a New Audience production was originally slated for March 2020.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PM

Waiting for Godot by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don’…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PM
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Waiting For Godot by Jk Clarke

Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s two-act, existential tragicomedy, was first performed, in French, as En attendant Godot, in 1953, and in Engl…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:09PM
Thursday, November 16, 2023

WAITING FOR GODOT on an Endless, Aimless Road — Review

Theatrely's Off-Broadway review of Waiting For Godot starring Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks. The play is now in performance at Theatre for a New Audience in New York City.

SOURCE: Theatrely at 09:40AM
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Waiting for Godot by David Walters

Known as the play where nothing happens, twice, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is back with us starring Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks, and is currently playing in Brooklyn at Theatre f…

SOURCE: thefrontrowcenter.com at 02:03PM

Reviews: What Do Critics Think of Waiting for Godot Off-Broadway? by Meg Masseron

The Theatre for a New Audience production stars Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM

Reviews: What Do Critics of Waiting for Godot Off-Broadway? by Meg Masseron

The Theatre for a New Audience production stars Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AM

Review Roundup: WAITING FOR GODOT Opens Off-Broadway at Theatre For a New Audience

The second production in TFANA’s 2023-24 season is Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, staged by Arin Arbus and starring Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks and more. Read the reviews for …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19AM
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Old Friends Falling in and Out of Sync by Laura Collins-Hughes

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in Arin Arbus’s pandemic-delayed production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PM

Review: Waiting for Godot at Polonsky Shakespeare Center by Loren Noveck

Paul Sparks's Vladimir brings seeds of hope to Beckett's bleak classic. Loren Noveck reviews. The post Review: Waiting for Godot at Polonsky Shakespeare Center appeared first on Exeunt Magaz…

SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:17PM

Waiting for Godot: Beckett’s Classic Play Revived and, Spoiler Alert, He Still Doesn’t Arrive by Frank Scheck

★★★★☆ Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks deliver lived-in chemistry in this sturdy revival of the absurdist masterpiece. The post Waiting for Godot: Beckett’s Classic Play Revived …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM

Waiting for Godot: Beckett’s Masterpiece Revived, Worth the Wait by David Finkle

★★★★☆ Arin Arbus directs scrupulously, Michael Shannon, Paul Sparks act at the top of their forms The post Waiting for Godot: Beckett’s Masterpiece Revived, Worth the Wait appear…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM

Review: Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks Are Well Worth Waiting for Godot  by David Cote

In the Theatre for a New Audience production of 'Waiting for Godot,' Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring uncommon clarity to Beckett's classic.

SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PM

Waiting for Godot Review: Paul Sparks and Michael Shannon as Beckett’s latest Didi and Gogo by New York Theater

On this, the seventieth anniversary year of the signature work of Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett, a play in which (as one Beckett scholar famously put it) “nothing happens, tw…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PM
Saturday, November 4, 2023

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks-Led Waiting for Godot Begins Performances November 4 by Meg Masseron

The Theatre for a New Audience production was originally slated for March 2020.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06AM
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Waiting for Godot by Sandi Durell

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot brings Vladimer and Estragon back in the forms of Paul Sparks and Michael Shannon at TFANA (Theatre for a New Audience) November 4 thru December 3, 2023,…

SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:55AM
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Additional Casting Announced for Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks-Led Waiting for Godot by Meg Masseron

The Theatre for a New Audience production was originally slated for March 2020.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Bas Bleu announces 2023-2024 season by Osc Staff Report

Season includes plays by Karen Zacarias, Will Enos, Jordan Harrison and a return to form with Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' The post Bas Bleu announces 2023-2024 season appeared first on OnS…

SOURCE: OnStage Colorado at 12:08PM
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Theatre L’Acadie’s Today Tonight Soon wears out its welcome by Kelly Kleiman

It looks so simple: two people occupy a stage, waiting for something and talking about nothing. But Waiting for Godot works because Samuel Beckett was a genius, and because waiting itself w…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:12PM
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks to Star in Waiting for Godot Off-Broadway by Leah Putnam

A United States premiere, a revival of Shayok Misha Chowdhury's Public Obscenities, and more have been announced for TFANA's 2023-24 Season.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PM

Michael Shannon & Paul Sparks Led WAITING FOR GODOT & More Set for TFANA 2023-24 Season

Discover the exciting lineup for the TFANA 2023-24 season, featuring the talented duo Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks in the iconic play Waiting for Godot. Get all the details on the dates a…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PM
Sunday, July 2, 2023

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review by Susannah Clapp

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Theatre Royal Stratford East; Hampstead theatre, London Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AM
Thursday, April 27, 2023

The Singing Sphere by Scotty Bennett

I left with questions about what I had just experienced. It was not a feeling of dismissal but one of consideration for the experience. It was and is not a question of good or bad but whethe…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:24PM
Friday, April 7, 2023

Today on Broadway: Thursday, April 6, 2023 by Ashley Steves

New Kennedy Center “Spamalot” Casting, “Color Purple” Film Shifts Release Date, Is A Potential “Waiting For Godot” Revival Waiting For Keanu Reeves? “Today on Broadway” is a …

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AM

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