When Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature last week at the age of 63, it was perhaps as much of an honor to his international audiences as to him. The judges were acknowledging ...

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 23, 1969. Here we look back at the Irish man's life and his most famous quotes. Born in Foxrock, Dublin, in 1906, Beckett spent ...

Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett, who died in 1989, has long been considered one of the most creative literary minds of his age. Krapp’s Last Tape follows a man who ...

A new production of Beckett’s existential masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, is now playing The Street Theatre in Canberra.

A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel ...

A Dublin artist, who once lived on an man-made island in the Liffey for a week, has taken a deeper dive into the history of ...

Krapp’s Last Tape is a one-act play written by Nobel Prize winning Samuel Beckett about a man who records a new tape each year on his birthday reflecting on the year gone by. On his 69th ...

As Vladimir and Estragon wait for the arrival of the elusive Godot, a cast of mysterious misfits interrupt their endless ...

Set in a dictatorial state where everyone is under surveillance, the new novel from Ali Smith is a riot of puns, neologisms ...

An array of international acts including Stephen Rea join First Nations artists and Australian companies for the 40th ...

York Theatre Royal has today announced that Gary Oldman will return to the theatre where he began his career in Samuel Beckett ... He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.