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..."

June 15, 2016 Screens Post by Emily Gibson

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

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

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Elaine: The Extended Cut

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

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

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

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

May 18, 2007 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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

Syndromes and a Century

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

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

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Exhibitionism

Waiting for Godot: Man's Sad Lot Made Funny

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

April 16, 1999 Arts Review

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

Krapp's Last Tape / Hughie

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

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

May 22, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Happy Days

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

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

Oct. 12, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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

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

Sept. 1, 2000 Books Review by Katherine Catmull

Fade In

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

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

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Books That Keep on Giving

Does It Come in Paperback?

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

Dec. 13, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Page Two

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

Oct. 4, 1996 Column by Louis Black

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.

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

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Endgame

Nigel O'Hearn terminates Palindrome Theatre after three years, just as planned

"...cost $25,000) to produce the work of Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, and Henrik Ibsen, waiting until its last show..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

In Bruges

Playwright Martin McDonagh directs his first feature film, which is about a couple of hitmen caught between heaven and hell.

"..."shit hole." While waiting, like two figures out of Samuel Beckett for the phone call from Harry that's slow..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...acquired an impressive array of manuscripts and typescripts, including Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, E.M...."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature 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.

"...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

Articulations

Two arts institutions end their runs: the iron belly muses theatre company and the South Congress visual arts venue Gallery 1313.

"...Esquenazi; Mud, by Maria Irene Fornes; Not I, by Samuel Beckett; and the current Pains of Youth, all of..."

April 25, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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

"...as a food forager for a coven of vampires. Samuel Beckett makes the profession the most grievous insult among..."

July 28, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23

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

July 24, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

B-Sides From the A-List

These absurdist plays are more fun for those who'd rather think about it than get it

"...The four writers featured here are Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. The plays feature..."

April 23, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

A Skull in Connemara

Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara teeters between the absurd and the just plain silly

"...Though Irish playwright Martin McDonagh claims that Samuel Beckett hasn't been an influence of his, he borrowed..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...conversation, this one about the international double puns of Samuel Beckett, especially those in the names of his characters...."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Krapp's Last Tape

There was so much to enjoy in the Gate Theatre of Dublin's production of Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape, most particularly David Kelly's poignant, honest, simple, straightforward, performance as Krapp, but understanding the tape itself was so difficult that it almost destroyed the experience.

"...that the Gate Theatre of Dublin's entire production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at UT's McCullough Theatre lived..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...-- an ingenious, funny, sort of optimistic antidote to Beckett's Waiting for Godot -- was produced by the UT..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

Look Back in Wonder

The British Invasion, Part One: Theatre, 1956-1996

"...a handful -- with the severe, reclusive figure of Samuel Beckett standing with and apart from them all. To..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 19-25

"...VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo-born Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was a versatile virtuoso. He excelled as..."

May 19, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

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