"Waiting for Godot" Set Post-Katrina Nixed by Beckett Estate
The Boston Globe reports that UMass-Amherst canceled a Feb. 15 performance of "Waiting for Godot'' because Samuel Beckett's estate objected to because it wasn't keeping with playwright's intention, according to the touring show's director Christopher McElroen.The show, which has been performed around the country for the past four years, is set in post-Katrina New Orleans with two African-American men waiting on a roo…