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How much are tickets to see Keanu Reeves in ‘Waiting for Godot’ on Broadway?

New York Post 26 Apr 2025
Starting Sept ... The Jamie Lloyd-directed show is the latest update of Samuel Beckett’s absurd 1953 play that follows two men, Estragon (Reeves, making his Broadway debut) and Vladimir (Winter), who wait for Godot, whom neither has never met ... 1 ... 8.
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I loved performing again, but it reminded me to keep one foot in normal life

New Statesman 23 Apr 2025
I ended my last column on a bit of a cliffhanger, heading towards performing a gig for the first time in 25 years, at the Moth Club in east London, and not sure how it would go ... It reminded me ... It didn’t matter ... Samuel Beckett’s art of reduction] .
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‘Bill & Ted’ stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reuniting on Broadway this September

NME 22 Apr 2025
The pair, who appeared together in the Bill & Ted movies, will star in a new version of Samuel Beckett’s classic play Waiting For Godot on Broadway later this year, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
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Waiting for Godot review: Olwyn Fouéré, breaking ground as the first woman to star in Beckett’s play, gives a sublime performance

The Irish Times 20 Apr 2025
A week ago a site-specific performed reading of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot was presented on a bleak plateau in the Fermanagh-Cavan borderlands ... In commemoration of Beckett’s birthday – ...
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Samuel Beckett vs Archbishop McQuaid: Why an infuriated Nobel laureate withdrew his play from Dublin Theatre Festival

The Irish Times 19 Apr 2025
Dublin Theatre Festival recently acquired a letter that Samuel Beckett wrote on January 20th, 1958, warning that he might withdraw from that year’s event ... of the events Beckett is writing about.
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Sunday Miscellany on a chance encounter with Samuel Beckett

RTE 15 Apr 2025
... instance, when it's Beckett on a Parisian street... The less said about Samuel Beckett, the better.
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The wait for Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Waiting For Godot is almost over

AV Club 15 Apr 2025
It’s a good day to be a theater kid. Leslie Odom Jr. just announced that he would be returning to Hamilton this September, and the same month, you’ll also be able to watch Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter do Samuel Beckett ... (Spoiler ... Club ... .
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Oh My Godot!: This outdoor staging of Beckett’s masterpiece is unforgettable

AOL 14 Apr 2025
But seeing Waiting for Godot amid the rolling, panoramic upland outside Enniskillen – the Northern Irish town where Samuel Beckett was sent to school in 1920 in his early teens – the sense of bleak ...
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s Broadway Reunion Gets Opening Date

Collider 14 Apr 2025
Their previously announced Broadway rendition of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot is now set to begin ...
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The Dark Weirdness of R. Crumb

The Atlantic 14 Apr 2025
In a loving biography, Crumb ... With LSD fueling his visions, he began drawing bizarre, big-footed figures in absurd comics, many of them disjointed, grotesque, as if Samuel Beckett were expressing himself with a Sharpie on the wall of a bathroom stall.
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid just needed Trump

The Observer 13 Apr 2025
I, however, am required to retool my work nightly, while losers like William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett or Alan Ayckbourn benefit from the notion that their hastily tossed-off and then simply ...
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Calling extremely early birds: Beckett tickets go on sale 11 years before performances

The Irish Times 12 Apr 2025
On April 13th, Samuel Beckett’s birthday – he was born in 1906 – an (extremely) early-bird booking portal will open to allow far-sighted theatregoers to reserve places at two groundbreaking ...
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Rethinking International Law in the Trump Era

Jurist 12 Apr 2025
A Psychological Study ... Ultimately, these strengthened legal arrangements will need to be founded on widespread understandings of human unity ... Values ... The reader may be usefully reminded of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s observation in Endgame ... .
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Russian intelligence-gathering ship has left Irish waters - Harris

RTE 11 Apr 2025
Mr Harris said he has been kept updated on the situation. It is understood that LÉ Samuel Beckett was dispatched to monitor the Viktor Leonov as it sailed towards Havana in Cuba ... Additional reporting Jackie Fox .
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