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Theater Review: “Escaped Alone” and “Come and Go” — Forms of Disconnection

To be truly effective black humor must have us laughing at something we fear, regret, or at the very least recognize.

By: Mary Paula Hunter Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Caryl Churchill, Come and Go, Escaped Alone, Gamm-Theatre, samuel-beckett

Theater Preview: Conor Lovett on Music and Samuel Beckett in “Here All Night”

“If you’ll excuse me for being cheeky, it’s a collaboration between the players on stage and Beckett’s works.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Preview, Theater Tagged: Arts Emerson, Conor Lovett, Gare St. Lazare, Here All Night, samuel-beckett

Book Review: Alvin Epstein’s “Dressing Room Stories” — Vivid Theater History

Alvin Epstein’s recollections about his decades as a stage performer have been gathered in the form of tales abut what happened behind the scenes,.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alvin Epstein, American Repertory Theater, American theater recollections, Dressing Room Stories: The making of an artist, Jonathan Fried, samuel-beckett

Fuse Theater Review: Samuel Beckett — A Memorable Voice in the Dark

Lisa Dwan’s performance of these Beckett pieces in a totally darkened theater is powerful and, in the case of Not I, deliciously revelatory.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: ArtsEmerson, Footfalls, Lisa Dwan, Not I, Rockaby, samuel-beckett, Walter Asmus

Stage Interview: Robert Scanlan on Samuel Beckett’s Women

“When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Amanda Gann, Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure, Carmel O'Reilly, Come and Go, Footfalls, Not I, Robert Scanlan, Rockaby, samuel-beckett, Sarah Newhouse, The Poets' Theatre

Arts Remembrance: Billie Whitelaw — An Appreciation

So many of the truly gifted actors of the British stage and screen of the 1960s ‘kitchen sink’ dramas are rapidly leaving us. One of the best, Billie Whitelaw, departed this week.

By: Paul Dervis Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Billie Whitelaw, Charlie Bubbles, Paul Dervis, samuel-beckett

Theater Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” — Soldiering On Through the Void

Brooke Adams portrays Winnie as the ultimate smiley face; her husband, Tony Shalhoub, is little more than another prop weathering her on-going babble.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Andrei Belgrader, Brooke Adams, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Happy Days, samuel-beckett, Tony Shalhoub

Jazz Remembrance: You Don’t Know Jack—From Glasgow to New York

Jack Bruce performing in 1972

“With Cream I and Ginger could play free jazz as a rhythm section, while Eric played the Ornette Coleman role. However, we didn’t tell Eric that!”

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music, Rock Tagged: Carla Bley, Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, Michael Mantler, samuel-beckett, Tony Williams Lifetime

Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett” — Castings

Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: English poetry, French poetry, Robert Scanlan, samuel-beckett, The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett, translations

Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

By: Robert Scanlan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Echo's Bones, Grove-Press, Robert Scanlan, samuel-beckett, Theater II

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