The other night I watched Bill Irwin repeat his bravura performance of On Beckett in a new version adapted for livestreaming. I saw the original in October 2018 at Irish […]

Chicago theater companies took a while to figure out how to respond to the COVID-19 lockdown and continuing restrictions. (And theater companies, small and large, are suffering debilitating financial losses […]

Can we agree that Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play about hope and the will to keep on, belongs in the category of buddy films?  Two guys hanging out at […]

Larry Neumann Jr. is known as one of Chicago’s finest character actors. I have seen him in a wide variety of roles in the 30-plus years I’ve been a Chicago […]

You know the scene. “A country road. A tree. Evening” Samuel Beckett couldn’t have been more succinct in the scenic direction for his existential classic, Waiting for Godot. That tree takes on mythic […]