Liam Neeson gives a remarkable performance as a haunted man nearing the end of his life in Samuel Beckett‘s “Eh Joe,” presented by Dublin‘s Gate Theatre for the Lincoln Center Festival, concluding ...

Gate/Beckett: Eh Joe. Where: Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 10th Avenue at 58th Street, New York. When: Remaining performances 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 7:30 p.m ...

LESS than a year after Mikhail Baryshnikov performed it as part of a Samuel Beckett evening, “Eh Joe” is back, this time via Dublin’s Gate Theatre. The first of three Beckett works presented at the ...

Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn’t mind the smell of corpses. “A ...

Erasmus University in Rotterdam hosts the World Database of Happiness, a collection of studies and statistics examining the relative contentment of 95 nations and their populations. Factors such as ...

In the wake of Jacques Derrida's work on the television medium, this paper investigates the structural self-reflexiveness of Beckett's bilingual TV play Eh Joe/Dis Joe. Based on a close reading of the ...

First Samuel Beckett and then his estate have long held what Supreme Court justices like to call “originalist” views about staging his works: If the Founding Father didn’t say to do it, don’t do it.

"Beckett Shorts" is my kind of Super Bowl: four short works by the most intense and radical playwright of the 20th century, directed by Joanne Akalaitis—a giant of the avant-garde, and plenty intense ...

The evening's four Beckett micro-tragedies flourish under the care of director JoAnne Akalaitis, graced by apropos incidental music by Philip Glass and a cast led by the fearless Baryshnikov down into ...