A new ‘Wait for Godot’ on Broadway affirms Samuel Beckett’s brilliance

The Bard’s many incarnations

Take another look at the work of a man who struggled mightily to grasp truth.

Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” first appeared on Broadway in 1944, beginning what would be a wave of great American plays about troubled families. Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” William Inge’s “Picnic,&

In These Pages: From 1961 and 1966

There’s a classic bit of advice for actors: Walk into the audition thinking of yourself as the solution to the director’s problem; be that solution and you’ve got the part. Closing the deal is a steeper challenge for the cutthroat salesmen in David Mamet’s 1983 masterpiece Gl