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Directed by Rachel Hall Featuring Josh Telepman (Vladimir), Michael Jay (Estragon), Quinton Kappel (Pozzo), Tom Marsh (Lucky), and Curtis Keene (Boy) 14 September 2024 Review by Paul Shields Quinton Kappel is excellent in the role of Pozzo at Great Road Church in Acton, Massachusetts. Rachel Hall directs Kappel and the rest of the cast in... Continue Reading →
Directed by Victor Sobchak Featuring Catharine Humphrys (Winnie) and Chris Diacopoulos (Willie) 11 December 2024 Review by Stiene Thillmann Even though I would call myself a well-travelled London theatregoer, I’d never been to East London’s Arcola Theatre. Based in an old paint factory just off Kingsland Road, Dalston’s main artery, the Arcola is a charming... Continue Reading →
By Katherine Weiss Jeni Jones, pictured at Beckett's Relationships in Edinburgh Jeni Jones is best known in Los Angeles as an award-winning director, actor, and producer of film and theatre. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Theatre Directing from Fordham University and her master’s degree from CalArts in Directing for Film, Theatre and Television. She... Continue Reading →
Federal Correctional Complex Victorville In the darkness of an early December morning, I drove across the vast City of Angels to join the cast, director, and other creatives from the Geffen Playhouse and Gare St. Lazare Ireland’s Waiting for Godot. We would be traveling together to one of California’s largest prisons, the Federal Correctional Institution... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by Dan Gunn Michael Coffey Every so often, though it seems more rarely than in the past, a book reaches out from a location that is not predetermined – by academic convention, by commercial viability, by authorial confidence, by generic cohesiveness – to challenge the reader to absorb it without the comforting reassurance that... Continue Reading →
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