Waiting for Godot and some of Beckett’s other plays have very small casts. There are two or three or four characters at the most, usually two—they almost live in pods, ...

In WAITING FOR GODOT, Didi and Gogo spend blocks of time on an empty stage staring at a barren tree. These actors embrace the silence, the nothingness because of the understanding that that is ...

I remember reading a Samuel Beckett book during my college days titled “Waiting for Godot.” Beckett was an Irish novelist, short story writer, theater director, poet and playwright. His… ...

You could argue that the characters in The Office are waiting for something, like a promotion, love, meaning in their lives? Well, their daily existence is pretty funny, if you put aside the larger ...

Beginning shortly, remarked the canned Irish voice, would be tonight’s performance of “Waiting for Godot.” I looked up. She said “GOD-oh,” the common pronunciation of the play in Samuel ...

Since its premiere in 1952, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (that’s GOD-oh, not guh-DOH) has captivated theatergoers of all stripes.The absurdist masterpiece pulls off the impossible ...

In ‘Waiting for Godot’ at Theatre for a New Audience, Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks lean in on the play’s humor, successfully.

Aside from its title, there’s no more perfect summation of “Waiting for Godot” than Estragon’s complaint “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” But there’s no ...

Marty Rea as Vladi­mir, left, and Aaron Monaghan as Estragon in the Druid theater production of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” at the Lansburgh Theatre through May 20.

But its greatest trick? Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” the theatrical escape room taps into the themes of the original work, creating an open-for-interpretation piece of ...

"Blathering about nothing in particular ... that's been going on now for half a century," notes Estragon to his fellow sad sack Vladimir, somewhere past the one-hour mark of "Waiting for Godot ...