Brandon J Dirden says Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter ‘never stopped being kids’ while tackling “Waiting for Godot” (exclusive)

The Tony nominee tells PEOPLE that the longtime friends' playful energy — and plenty of "adolescent teenage boy talk" — ...

Waiting for Godot at Stratford is tedious and stark – but that’s the point

Depending on whom you ask, Waiting for Godot is either a miracle of the written word or a mockery of it. To suggest Samuel ...
The Portland Mercury

Theater Review: Waiting for Godot Is Samuel Beckett—Straight, No Chaser

Karl Hanover as Estragon in "Waiting for Godot." Credit: photo by john rudoff In the setting of a desolate landscape, two old men await someone named Godot. The duo, Vladimir (Roo Welsh) and Estragon ...
The News International

Brandon J. Dirden calls 'Waiting for Godot' costars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter 'ridiculous human beings'

Brandon J. Dirden recently opened up about how it felt working with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Waiting for Godot on ...
Berkshire Eagle

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' was a 'hand grenade' when it premiered in 1953. It's still making waves nearly 70 years later

PITTSFIELD – On Jan. 5, 1953, a small four-character play written in French by an Irish playwright opened at the intimate Theatre de Babylone on Paris' Left Bank. Two years later, “En Attendant Godot” ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT at STNJ is an Exceptional Theatrical Experience

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) continues their successful season themed “Take Flight” with the Main Stage production of Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking tragicomedy, Waiting for Godot.
Houston Press

Waiting for Godot at Catastrophic: Life…On the Road to No-where

No one ever goes gentle into the night of Samuel Beckett. No one jumps in excitement at the chance to see one of his plays. Calling his works “plays” is an oxymoron. They are bleak and dark, ...
BroadwayWorld

Waiting for Godot at The Catastrophic Theatre

"We are all born mad. Some remain so." Beckett’s absurdist, tragicomic masterwork in which two penniless tramps stand waiting on a country road for the enigmatic Mr. Godot to arrive and improve their ...
The Forward

In ‘Waiting for Godot,’ the tragedy and comedy of the Jewish experience

Seventy years ago, in the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, of all places, the curtain opened on the American premiere of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The theater had promoted the play as the ...
Houston Public Media

Still ‘Waiting for Godot,’ 10 years later

(L-R): Greg Dean as Vladimir, Kyle Sturdivant as Pozzo, and Charlie Scott as Estragon in The Catastrophic Theatre’s 2013 production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” There are two things you ...
Yahoo

Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett's masterpiece 'gleams brighter than ever'

Having premiered in Paris in 1953, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece was first performed in English in London in 1955 – and was promptly named "Most Controversial Play" at the inaugural Evening Standard ...

When Wall Street might run out of patience with this ‘Waiting for Godot’ stock market

The gains keep coming, and the worries never arrive. But Godot might be lurking.