‘Are you really Beckett or is this some trick they’re playing at?” asks James Joyce of newly arrived Samuel Beckett. “I don’t doubt that all this could be a trick, but I’m fairly certain that I’m Sam ...

“Krapp’s Last Tape,” playing now at NYU’s Skirball Center, runs just 55 minutes but could haunt the viewer for much longer than that. Written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in 1958, it shares with ...

In the program for “Beckett Briefs,” a bill of three short plays by Samuel Beckett at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City, three questions are posed: “Why these plays?” “Why now?” And “Why ...

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

Beckett, Joyce, and a few others will be on stage when Lost Nation Theater presents the world premiere production of Beckwith’s new comedy-drama “Sam & Jim in Hell” at City Hall Arts Center in ...