Directed by Jamie Lloyd Featuring Keanu Reeves (Estragon), Alex Winter (Vladimir), Michael Patrick Thornton (Lucky), Brandon J. Dirden (Pozzo), Eric Williams/Zaynn Arora (Boy) Friday 26 September 2025 Endgame, Irish Arts Center, New York Directed by Garry Hynes Featuring Bosco Hogan (Nagg), Aaron Monaghan (Clov), Marie Mullen (Nell), Rory Nolan (Hamm) Saturday 24 October 2025 Reviews... Continue Reading →
Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave—Not I, Play, Krapp’s Last Tape. Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly Featuring F. Murray Abraham (Krapp’s Last Tape), Roger Dominic Casey, Kate Forbes, Sarah Street (Play), Sarah Street (Not I) Saturday 25 January 2025 Review by Michael Coffey The Irish Repertory Theatre, the cozy house on 22nd Street in Manhattan, is just what its name implies: a theatre dedicated to building a... Continue Reading →
Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir, by Michael Coffey. New York: O/R Books, 2024
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 →