Samuel Beckett News

Actor Tony Roberts will celebrate his new memoir "Do You Know Me?" -- which reveals the story of his legendary five-decade career on stage and screen -- with an in-store reading and book signing at The Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street) on Tuesday, December 15 at 5:00pm. 

Katy Warner's DROPPED is a complex and comic two hander that contemplates the position of women on the frontline of contemporary war.

'It is a text written to come out of the dark' said Samuel Beckett of his mysterious, tragicomic first radio play 'All That Fall'. In this production, by internationally acclaimed director Max Stafford-Clark, audiences will be blindfolded as the cast move about them in the auditorium, their voices joined by a surround-sound design by Dyfan Jones. It plays at Bristol Old Vic from 8 to 12 March and Wilton's Music Hall from 22 March to 9 April 2016.

New York|Miami… From today, December 3 through 6, 2015, Dominique Lévy will present You Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On. in the gallery's booth (K11) at Art Basel Miami Beach. Featuring works by David Hammons, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Senga Nengudi, Thomas Schütte, Frank Stella, Rudolf Stingel, Günther Uecker, and Christopher Wool, this exhibition explores how, with Minimalist painting in the 1960s, the medium reached an endgame, a breaking point. After critics and curators alike decried painting as dead, however, artists continued to create, to go on, pushing past the previously conceived limits of the medium.

Following a hugely successful eighth season, which included the Midwest Premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Social Creatures and the acclaimed short play festival, Today We Escape-inspired by Radiohead's OK COMPUTER -Tympanic Theatre Company is proud to announce its ninth season in Chicago, as well as the appointment of a new Artistic Director and co-Literary Managers. Outgoing Artistic Director Dan Caffrey, who will continue serving as part of the company's Literary and Marketing Committees, and incoming Artistic Director Christopher Acevedo are proud to announce the two plays that will be comprising Tympanic's ninth season:- Blueberry Toast by Mary Laws, and Paper City Phoenix by Walt McGough. In addition to announcing Acevedo as the new Artistic Director, the company also proudly announces the appointment of Ted Brengle and Joshua Ellison as co-Literary Managers.

Rubicon Theatre celebrates the holidays with the company's first presentation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a World Premiere adaptation written by Producing Artistic Director Karyl Lynn Burns and directed by Brian McDonald. Rubicon's A Christmas Carol features a 24-member cast (the largest ensemble since the company's production of Fiddler on the Roof and the largest ever for a play).

This November, Mr. Arnott and Mr. Stanton team up again with one of America's most exciting theatrical voices - Will ENO (The Realistic Joneses, Thom Pain (based on nothing), The Open House). This will be the Canadian premiere of Eno's latest dramatic solo show, TITLE AND DEED.

New York|Miami… From December 3 through 6, 2015, Dominique Lévy will present You Must Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On. in the gallery's booth (K11) at Art Basel Miami Beach. Featuring works by David Hammons, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Senga Nengudi, Thomas Schütte, Frank Stella, Rudolf Stingel, Günther Uecker, and Christopher Wool, this exhibition explores how, with Minimalist painting in the 1960s, the medium reached an endgame, a breaking point. After critics and curators alike decried painting as dead, however, artists continued to create, to go on, pushing past the previously conceived limits of the medium.

THE DUMBWAITER, by Harold Pinter, is a one act play written in 1957. Almost 60 years on, it still has a lot to say about our need to assert our individuality while seeking meaning. It still manages to make a profound statement about the human condition. The title refers not only to the food lift that delivers orders to the two hit-men, Ben (Ken Webster) and Gus (Jason Phelps), but also refers to Gus, who doesn't know that he is waiting to be the victim, and possibly even to Ben, whose blind obedience to higher authority eventually causes him to be confronted with having to eliminate his partner.

Theatre for a New Audience, Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director, will present William Shakespeare's Pericles directed by Trevor Nunn, featuring OBIE Award-winner Christian Camargo in the title role and leading a diverse company of twenty-two actors. Pericles marks Mr. Camargo's third Shakespeare title role for Theatre for a New Audience, and the first time not only that Trevor Nunn has directed this play, but the first time he has directed a Shakespeare with a U.S. company.  The production begins previews February 14 and opens February 25 for a scheduled run through March 27 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place.

The Tank (Rosalind Grush and Rania Jumaily, Artistic Directors), a non-profit arts presenter located in the heart of midtown, will present AN OTHELLO THING, an experimental play that involves abstract language, non-linear storytelling, and an awareness by the performers of their performance. In this play, written by Sean Edward Lewis, a man (Lewis) and a woman (Claire Campbell) carry out violent Othello Experiments in their domestic domain.

Sam Shepard, the author of AGES OF THE MOON, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, is noted for writing plays that are frank and often absurd. His language choice is gritty, the setting is the American west, and his characters usually self-destruct. He sometimes includes in his stage directions the requirement that part of the set is to be demolished, much like the lives of the people about whom he writes. The actions of the actors carry out these destructions. AGES OF THE MOON is no exception.

Ingmar Bergman's NORA -- an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama A DOLL'S HOUSE -- will be given its English-language New York debut Off-Broadway this fall when Austin Pendleton directs the production at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St.), with previews set to begin November 14 prior to an official press opening November 22. The five-week production runs through December 12. NORA is produced by Cherry Lane Theatre in association with La Femme Theatre Productions. 

Tony Roberts will celebrate his new memoir DO YOU KNOW ME? - which reveals the story of his legendary five-decade career on stage and screen - with an in-store reading and book signing at The Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street) on Tuesday, December 15 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

This November, Mr. Arnott and Mr. Stanton team up again with one of America's most exciting theatrical voices - Will ENO (The Realistic Joneses, Thom Pain (based on nothing), The Open House). This will be the Canadian premiere of Eno's latest dramatic solo show, TITLE AND DEED.

American Players Theatre (APT) is excited to announce its 37th season, which will run June 4 to October 16, 2016. In APT's flagship outdoor amphitheater, William Shakespeare will bookend the Hill season with The Comedy of Errors and King Lear. Also playing on the Hill: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.

Following a record season that included nine Dora nominations for two major productions, and six wins for their co-production of Blood Wedding | Bodas de Sangre with Modern Times, Aluna Theatre is thrilled to announce the inaugural CAMINOS, presented in partnership with Native Earth Performing Arts.

Abrons Arts Center and UK's Live Art Development Agency (LADA) in collaboration with Chelsea Theatre present Just Like a Woman, (October 23-25), a three day program of performances, installations, cabarets, screenings, panels and book launches that examine the performance of identity - the ways femininity can be 'performed' and how representations of gender can be queered through performance.

TONY ROBERTS reveals the story of his legendary five-decade career on stage and screen in the new memoir 'Do You Know Me?' It became available as a hardcover book through Amazon.com and an audio book from Audible.com, read by the author himself, on October 6. Below, check out photos of the author with his new book!

Closer to Heaven, the musical by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys, will return to the Union Theatre following its sell-out run in April 2015, playing from tonight 21 October to Saturday 28 November 2015.