Luv Doc Recommends: Waiting on Godot

Hyde Park Theatre, Thursday, November 4, 2004

"...by the Chronicle’s own Wayne Alan Brenner, Waiting on Godot. Ah, what a difference a preposition makes. WOG is..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

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

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Exhibitionism

Waiting for Godot: Man's Sad Lot Made Funny

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

April 16, 1999 Arts Review

The Wind in the Reeds

Treme actor Wendell Pierce finds Godot and gratitude in post-Katrina New Orleans

"...appearances, not to mention Samuel Beckett, whose Waiting for Godot provides both an illuminating example of art's power and..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wendell Pierce's The Wind in the Reeds

In Wendell Pierce's memoir The Wind in the Reeds, Godot and Treme help transform post-Katrina New Orleans

"...there after a profound artistic experience: performing Waiting for Godot in the streets of the Lower Ninth Ward for..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wrong Numbers

"...and featuring a spare plot that makes Waiting for Godot look like Chinatown by comparison, the Austin Film Festival..."

June 7, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"...and lost, they seem more to be waiting for Godot than on their way to Elsinore. But this is..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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.

"...Waiting for Godot: Waiting by the Best..."

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.

"...the meaninglessness of our existence: Beckett's own Waiting for Godot. Why, if not for Godot, we might still be..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Features Feature by Robert Faires

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 14-20

"...(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his absurdist play Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett offers us two characters, Vladimir and Estragon,..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Real Estate and Perfect Mates

The Year in Austin Culture

"...2. Waiting for Godot (UT Performing Arts Center) I almost wrote that Cabaret..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

A Love Song

Dale Dickey paints a meticulous portrait of hope and love

"...duet, and wonderful as Studi is as the flower-bearing Godot, finally turning up, this is Dickey's film. Stripped down..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...Johnson, Underground Michael Joplin, Lungs Bill Karnovsky, Waiting for Godot Charles P. Stites, The Island of Dr. Moreau Patrick..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Hologram for the King

Tom Hanks stars in this seriocomic take on Dave Eggers’ 2012 novel

"...assignment quickly becomes a salesman’s version of Waiting for Godot as he bides time waiting for meetings that never..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Of Barbecue and Vampires

An interview with Todd Lowe, True Blood's Terry Bellefleur

"...a B. Iden Payne Award in 1995), Waiting for Godot, and A Saga of Billy the Kid, and next..."

June 13, 2013 Screens Post by R.U. Steinberg

Doomsday

In this UK thriller, the so-called Reaper virus threatens the Isles with extinction.

"...direct Robin Williams and Christopher Walken in Waiting for Godot and come out of it with his genre cred..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waiting on Godot

Theatre review

"...Waiting on GodotHyde Park Theatre, through Nov. 20..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Speaking of Dance

The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.

"...long been a target for satire. In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett famously used "critic" as the ultimate insult..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Gerry

"...say "Becketty, boppity, boo," these two Gerrys have entered Godot Standard Time, in which where they are going takes..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Copenhagen

If director Don Toner's staging of Copenhagen, a drama about 20th-century physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, is good but unexceptional, the trouble may lie in Michael Frayn's script, which is full of intriguing ideas but less than satisfying as a story.

"...to go at it forever, a physicist's Waiting for Godot?..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...at a dope-saturated Karen Black Film Festival; Waiting on Godot, a half-food-service-rant, half-Beckett-homage that packed the old Electric Lounge;..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Smokey Robinson, Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California, June 30

"...black capitals of the U.S. was like waiting for Godot. A singer and composer Bob Dylan once termed "America's..."

July 7, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Deconstructing Harry

"...a lot easier waiting for Lefty than waiting for Godot.”) When first we meet Harry, he has worked his..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Exhibitionism

"...theatre, but this is not Beckett's masterwork Waiting for Godot. In fact, Craving Gravy playwright John Walch professes a..."

April 4, 1997 Arts Review

Three Faces of Steve

Actor Steve McDaniel Shows His Different Sides

"...actor appeared in 10 more shows, including Waiting for Godot, Inspecting Carol, and The Illusion at the Zachary Scott..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hoffa

"...will play like some kind of elliptical Waiting for Godot. Despite the impediments to narrative flow, you have at..."

Dec. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: The Stage Austin's The Real Inspector Hound

The director, not the dead guy, is the victim in Tom Stoppard's vicious critique of critics

"...two main characters in his avant-garde play Waiting for Godot: "Curate!" "Cretin!" "Critic!"..."

July 28, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Dolly de Leon Sails into the Triangle of Sadness

The Filipina actress discusses her breakout role in Ruben Östlund's Cannes award winner

"...Beckett in Östlund's script, most especially of Waiting for Godot. By simply hoping that someone else will deliver food,..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lovecraft and Rest Stops: Rebekah McKendry Takes to the Road for Glorious

Inside the pandemic roots of the new cosmic horror comedy

"...we shopped [Glorious] I literally called it 'Waiting for Godot in a bathroom.’”..."

Aug. 17, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Short and Sweet: "Alleyway Chefs"

British comedy short screening at Austin Film Festival

"...the way. Though, there’s a kind of Waiting For Godot thing going on as she always fails to emerge,..."

Oct. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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