The HRC's Beckett Online: Googling for Godot

With "Fathoms From Anywhere: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition," online in perpetuity, Web-wanderers can plumb the depths of the Ransom Center's Beckett collection, which is among the world's finest

"...bring you to the Harry Ransom Center's online Samuel Beckett exhibition, you have a choice...."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Unpacking Samuel Beckett's “Film”

HRC kicks off Summer Film Series with playwright's foray into film

"...This philosophy was the driving force behind Samuel Beckett’s 1965 film, “Film.” But assigning a precise meaning to..."

June 15, 2016 Screens Post by Emily Gibson

Elaine: The Extended Cut

The incomparable Ms. Stritch on humor, happiness, Tennessee, Beckett, and bad directors

"...Williams, her recent appearance in a production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, happiness, and..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sniper

"...is a familiar one. The older Marine sniper, Tom Beckett (Berenger -- who has, of late, become curiously at..."

Feb. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Innocence

This story about a damaged, young woman mired in the mundanities of boarding-school life is utterly bloodless.

"...Silverstone but clueless in all the wrong ways, plays Beckett Warner, the daughter of a famous writer (Roache, seemingly..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spies in Disguise

This kid-friendly animated spy romp is for the birds

"...introduces 10-year-old budding Q (of James Bond fame) Walter Beckett (current Spider-Man Holland) and his police officer mom (Brosnahan)...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Should you have a bad feeling about this stand-alone Star Wars?

"...with a band of thieves headed by the unscrupulous Beckett (Harrelson). They end up in debt to nefarious gangster..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Finding You

Dismal YA romance piles up Hollywood clichés and Irish stereotypes

"...where she sits by famous “bad boy” movie star Beckett Rush (Goodacre), and becomes the focus of his attention..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Culture Flash!

Ballet Austin's Dance Education Center gets some financial help to the finish line, and UT's Ransom Center gets an extra helping of Samuel Beckett materials

"...Research Center has added to its already substantial Samuel Beckett holdings. Through Richard Seaver, Beckett's former editor at Grove..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Improv … Tragedy? Absurdity? WTF, Institution Theater?

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks Beckett, what is it?

"...the Institution Theater until the end of July. Breaking Beckett is an hour of improvisation that's definitely not played..."

July 18, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Samuel Beckett Cabaret

This show of three Beckett shorts embraces both their absurdity and tragedy

"...A Samuel Beckett Cabaret..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Happy Days

With standout work by Katherine Catmull, Beckett's 'happy' play gets a revival to be grateful for

"...the earth, as is Winnie, the heroine of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, the humor of where we are in..."

Oct. 12, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Waiting for Godot: Man's Sad Lot Made Funny

"...-- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Review

TV Eye

Opposites attract in a new mystery series starring a crime writer and a cop

"...Detective Kate Beckett (Katic) is one of Castle's readers. When she recognizes..."

March 6, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Waiting for Godot

In its new staging of Samuel Beckett's signature play Waiting for Godot, the Gate Theatre Company of Dublin has succeeded in creating a definitive production of a major theatrical work.

"...Dublin, Ireland, premiered a new American tour of Samuel Beckett's signature play, Waiting for Godot. With it, the UT..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Review by Rob Curran

We are Waiting for Sockot

Theatre Editor Robert Faires offers this hand-warming way to ring in the New Year.

"...perspective like a few words from good ol' Sam Beckett, huh? The irascible Irishman (who spent most of his..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Robert Faires

Dec. 16 Run-Off Election

"...9am-6pm ACC Rio Grande, 1212 Rio Grande, 8am-5pm Brookdale Beckett Meadows, 7709 Beckett, 8-10am Brookdale Westlake Hills, 1034 Liberty..."

Nov. 28, 2014 News Feature

Syndromes and a Century

Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates a baffling yet intriguing film of meandering abstractions. (AFS@Dobie)

"...Watching Syndromes and Century is like reading a Samuel Beckett novel, only it’s slow, confusing, and bleak. Okay, so..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Krapp's Last Tape / Hughie

Pairing of Krapp's Last Tape and Hughie reveals haunted old men and masterful acting by Michael Stuart

"...different, and yet, in the recent pairing of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Eugene O'Neill's Hughie by Actors..."

May 22, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...3 story, Texas Employees Retirement System Executive Director Sheila Beckett was told by the Texas Legislative Council that, at..."

Dec. 6, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Laughing Wild

Like a (Canadian) figure skating pair, actors Kirk Burg and Katie Brock provide the most entertainment in town, but in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild, they don't get to work with the most fulfilling piece of art.

"...Laughing Wild: The Most Sensational Beckett ShowAuditorium on Waller Creek,..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Experience: A Memoir

"...his friend Salman Rushdie over the question of Samuel Beckett's prose (Rushdie was pro; Amis, con). "'Okay,'" Amis says...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Books Review by Katherine Catmull

Fade In

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

"...for their promisingly wacked-out concepts, include Carina Chocano's "Samuel Beckett Orders Out" ("Samuel Beckett orders pizza in this existential..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Books That Keep on Giving

Does It Come in Paperback?

"...William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, J.P. Donleavy, and Samuel Beckett, establishing new turf for fiction. Between the covers of..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

"...New York Times article that talked about how Samuel Beckett was shooting his first film in Manhattan, starring Buster..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Column by Louis Black

Lean, Mean, and Smoking!

Kris McKay

"...Produced in Nashville by Barry Beckett, advance word on McKay's major-label debut indicated an unfocused..."

July 12, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Supernova

Firth and Tucci are beyond stellar as a married couple being swallowed by dementia

"...– of physical intimacy between Hanks’ fired lawyer Andrew Beckett and his devoted boyfriend, played by a gorgeous Antonio..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23

"...time, but takes place every day." Aries playwright Samuel Beckett made that observation, and now I'm passing it on..."

July 24, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

May 22 Party Primary Run-Offs

Early voting ends Friday, May 18

"...9am-6p Brookdale Westlake Hills, 1034 Liberty Park, 8-11am Brookdale Beckett Meadows, 7709 Beckett, 1-4pm Cantu/Pan Am Rec Ctr., 2100..."

May 11, 2018 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Early Voting

Oct. 23 - Nov. 3

"...West Lake Hills, 1034 Liberty Park Dr., 8-11am Brookdale Beckett Meadows, 7709 Beckett, 1-4pm Huston-Tillotson Univ., 900 Chicon, 10am-5pm..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Feature

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