Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn’t mind the smell of corpses. “A ...

Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of new festival celebrating Irish playwright ...

In this exclusive clip from "Dance First," a young Samuel Beckett meets James Joyce in Paris for the first time. In "Dance First," Irish actors Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O'Shea masterfully play Beckett, ...

Rufus Norris will direct Samuel Beckett's Not I in one of his first productions since leaving the National Theatre, with the ...

When the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was first approached to play the role of Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s greatest literary heroes, he hesitated. “I wrestled with the idea,” Byrne says on a recent ...

Samuel Beckett and Samuel D. Hunter might seem to have little in common other than a first name. Beckett is among the most revered playwrights of the 20th century, while Mr. Hunter is a comparatively ...

Endgame tells the amusing tale about the aged and blind Hamm and his servant Clov, co-existing in a mutually dependent and ...