Samuel Beckett

Small Budgets, Big Performances at 13th Festival of Indie Theatres

Chocolatier Stephen Smith On Cooking With Mom and the Guilty Pleasure of Twinkies

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

Out of the Loop fest teaches a Lesson in how to do Ionesco; Tap This turns on some crazy rhythms

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

Charmageddon

On Wednesday, we gave you the goods on chocolatier Stephen Smith of nib chocolates. Today, we asked Smith to finish a few sentences for us. Tomorrow, he shares one of his recipes. ​I was raised in...a military family.   My friends say I'm...too laid back. Too relaxed.   My momma told me ... More >>

The Good Barney

The Modern salutes a free-speech icon

Echoes and Reverberations: Carter Albrecht Was Ready For His Close Up

Hal Samples Carter Albrecht I was not ready to do this. For a couple of weeks, I've tried to mentally prepare myself to write a proper story about Carter Albrecht's Jesus is Alive... and Living in London, the recently-released solo album that he was in the process of finishing at the time ... More >>

Charlie Rose Sure Has Come a Long Way Since Channel 5

Hal Samples Carter Albrecht I was not ready to do this. For a couple of weeks, I've tried to mentally prepare myself to write a proper story about Carter Albrecht's Jesus is Alive... and Living in London, the recently-released solo album that he was in the process of finishing at the time ... More >>

Embarrassment of Riches

Were there 10 great shows in 2007? More like 11—no, make it 12.

All Yours

Yours, Mine & Ours lowers the bar for miserable remakes

Wisecracker Art

Michael Smith corrupts the gallery's white walls with digs, jests and jibes

Hamer Time

This unconventional comedic drama from Norway might be just the ticket

The Man Who Wasn't There

Risk Theater finds get-up-and-Gogo in Godot; Other Half hoists a hefty Hedwig

Against All Odds

2003's theater winners gambled on edgy themes, took risks on new talent, new material

Hungarian Rhapsody

The Danube flows in unexpected directions at Kitchen Dog Theater

Hang Around

This circus is dreamy

String Along

Violinist Gil Shaham performs

Altar Egos

In 10:10, four weddings, two funerals add up to one hot new play

A Horrible Mind

Unlike John Nash, Spider sees little triumph over schizophrenia

The Freaks Come Out

Life on a Dallas stage in 2002 was cruel, freaky and mostly cruel

Best Theater Company

Kitchen Dog Theater

What Lies Beneath

Subtext sings in Happy Days; The Lion King's a dull roar

Pyramid Schemes

The geezer from Giza reigns in The Curse of the Mummy at Pocket Sandwich Theatre

Frank Black and the Catholics

Dog in the Sand (What Are Records?)

Wedding bell blues

Theatre Three jettisons all jitters

Honorable thieves

Kitchen Dog's actors reheat Beckett's leftovers

Muy moderno

Working-class Hispanics and opinionated vaginas mark this year's Festival of the Unexpected

Joe Henry

Working-class Hispanics and opinionated vaginas mark this year's Festival of the Unexpected

You Godot, girl

Kitchen Dog's staging of Beckett's brooding comedy is worth the Waiting

Nowhere man

Settling into the relaxed paranoia of Henry Fool director Hal Hartley

The sound and Fury III

Sometimes, Stephen Nutt just can't get out of bed

A word's worth

Some terrific acting blooms in Pinter's The Hothouse

Top breed

Dog Show has the pedigree of pure Beckett

Events for the week

Dog Show has the pedigree of pure Beckett

Out Here

Dog Show has the pedigree of pure Beckett