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‘Destroy! Be courageous!’ – 2 shimmering meditations on grief, nihilism and motherhood

In 1983, Erin Vincent was 14 years old. Like most adolescents, she was beginning to shed her childhood and starting to grow into a more durable, flexible adult skin. But when her parents were killed by a speeding tow truck in western Sydney, she found herself frozen in time, immobilised…

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A Yoko Ono biography that avoids John Lennon... Really?

MCCRUM ON BOOKS: Yoko Ono’s art career has seen her wrap orchestras up in gauze and make paintings with numbered instructions – all before she stumbled into Beatlemania. A new book sidelines her partnership with John Lennon, but Robert McCrum argues that her role as the musician’s muse unleashed one…

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Plan to turn Irish borderlands into Unesco ‘region of literature’

Arts group proposes literary routes across 11 counties linked to writers from Jonathan Swift to Lisa McGee

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‘I wasn’t ambitious until I was 60!’ Gary Wilmot on comedy, panto, musicals – and his Beckett-style new play

He left school at 15 and worked as a scaffolder. Then success on New Faces launched him to stardom – and he’s been a panto and musicals sensation ever since. So what made him write a comedy about two men waiting?

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Why failure is a necessary ingredient for success – especially in the era of AI

On the arm of Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka is tattooed a quote by Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

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Forget Keanu: Ulster Scots translation of Beckett classic takes on spate of celebrity Godots

Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of new festival celebrating Irish playwright

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Harold Offeh: Mmm Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet review – desire, despondency and disco divas

Offeh’s show blares and jostles with life as he mimics Mammy, listens to self-help advice and gets naked for Grace Jones’s anatomically impossible Island Life pose

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Stereophonic: this play about an ailing rock band is a must-see masterpiece

For legal reasons, David Adjmi and Will Butler’s play is absolutely not about the recording of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours. But like that famous album, it is a dizzying amalgamation of influences, mercurial talents and creativity that sits among the defining achievements of its generation. And like Fleetwood Mac,…

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Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’

Midway through the Broadway run of Waiting for Godot with his Bill & Ted co-star Keanu, the actor-director talks about his new film, Adulthood, overcoming the abuse he endured as a young performer, and why we’re wrong about artificial intelligence

The Guardian - UK

Sir Gary Oldman and Tilda Swinton part of Royal Court’s 70th anniversary season

Sir Gary will star in and direct Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape.

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Michael Patrick Thornton breaks down Samuel Beckett and working with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter: “What kind of sadist would make your mother memorize Lucky’s monologue?” [EXCLUSIVE]

Michael Patrick Thornton is Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, now open at the Hudson Theatre.

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Sir Gary Oldman says Slow Horses has been one of the most ‘joyful’ experiences

The Oscar-winning actor stars as veteran MI5 agent Jackson Lamb in the Apple TV show based on the Slough House book series by Mick Herron.

Evening Standard

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter give verdict on potential Bill & Ted 4

The two stars are currently appearing in ‘Waiting For Godot’ on Broadway

The Independent UK

Waiting for Godot review – Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s unlikely reunion

Bill & Ted stars land on Broadway for Jamie Lloyd’s disorienting and intermittently engaging take on Samuel Beckett’s classic

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Alex Winter takes a most excellent adventure on Broadway with 'Waiting For Godot' and Keanu Reeves

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have reunited on Broadway for “Waiting for Godot,” decades after their “Bill & Ted” films

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Endgame review – Mathew Horne and Douglas Hodge bring macabre fizz to Beckett

As a pair of wisecracking vaudevillian entertainers, the stars balance the comedy and desolation in Lindsay Posner’s production

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Keanu Reeves thanked Jonathan Groff for iconic Tony Awards moment

Broadway star infamously straddled the ‘John Wick’ actor during his performance at the 2025 award ceremony

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Some of us dread ageing. For these stage actors, it makes them freer than ever

Ageing is sometimes framed as a series of losses – but three acting veterans navigating stunts and long monologues reveal a more complex and moving approach

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Waiting for Godot has been translated into Afrikaans: what took so long

At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived – not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language. Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known drama, Waiting for Godot, now also lives as Ons Wag vir Godot.

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John Fletcher obituary

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

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Happy Days review – Pamela Rabe gives an aching performance in Samuel Beckett’s unrelenting play

This is a particularly oppressive and tragic take on Beckett’s famous play, with fewer laughs than usual – making it a tough space to exist in for its run-time

Evening Standard

Krapp’s Last Tape at the Barbican: 'Stephen Rea is oddly workmanlike'

3/5 Among a slew of Krapp’s, Stephen Rea’s is finely calibrated but lacks pathos

The Guardian - UK

Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

Krapp’s Last Tape, in which an old man rummages through recordings of his younger self, is back for two star-powered revivals. This haunting play invites actors and audiences to reconnect with their past

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Memories of Wizbit, high hopes for Bill and Ted

Samuel Beckett’s writing the scripts for Keanu now, and even he couldn’t better the latest news from the Magic Circle

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