Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1969. Here, Beckett scholar Michael Coffey reminds us of the ...

Written in Paris in 1932, when Beckett was just twenty-six years’ old, this nebula – of autobiography, literary in-jokes, and musings on everything from philosophy, art and music, to the very novel ...

On December 22, 1989, Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett died in Paris at the age of 83. Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his writing, which - in new forms of ...

OBERLIN, Ohio — In life, the Irish writer Samuel Beckett made his intentions, unlike his famously opaque plays, clear. He did not, under any circumstances, want women to appear in “Waiting for Godot.” ...

Samuel Beckett’s life is reduced to mommy and daddy issues in a biopic that offers simple explanations for the career of a complex writer. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an ...

All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share the human desire to hear the same ...

Production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation is launching pre-sales on upcoming Samuel Beckett biopic “Dance First,” to be directed by James Marsh and to star Gabriel Byrne. Marsh won an ...