Samuel Beckett
Happy Days Comes to Brooklyn
David Chelsea
Tony-nominated director Deborah Warner and longtime collaborating actress Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter movies) will be bringing a "far from conventional" production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days to Brooklyn Academy of Music starting Jan. 8 (check here for tickets), according to Jason Zinoman of the New York Times. They made admends with the executor of Mr. Beckett's estate by promising to honor the writer's bullish protection of his work and precise stage directions (although Ms. Warner couldn't help herself from adding the theme songs to Gary Marshall's Happy Days show during intermission). read more »
A Second Act Triumph: Little Edie Happy at Last
Joan Marcus
Christine Ebersole as Little Edie in Grey Gardens.
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. read more »
Wodehouse and Beckett: Their Secret Kinship Revealed
Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum. W.W. Norton and Company, 530 pages, $27.95.
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Deconstructing the Custard Pie: Bill's New, New, Old, Old Theater
So many people were doubled up with laughter at Bill Irwin's latest feat of clowning at the Signatur read more »
Raging Rosset Ignored; 'Warm, Gentle' Beckett Fêted
Given the publishing-world scuttlebutt last week, you might have thought the P.E.N.-sponsored tribut read more »
Pretentious Pigs Don't Fly; Barbara Cook Simply Soars
Lee Breuer's epic investigation of the artist as a pig, Ecco Porco , is the kind of experimental pie read more »
Bare-Assed Argentines Fly in Wondrous Thrilla, Villa Villa
I can't imagine a more fantastic-or fantastically enjoyable-summer event than Villa Villa , created, read more »
Ghosts, Goblins and Guinness: The Weir 's Weird Brew
The new wave of young Irish dramatists may be as talented as many people believe, including the youn read more »
Goodbye for Now …Long Live Theater!
I must make a little announcement about myself. read more »
