2 Artists at the Top of Their ‘Endgame’
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson, who first bonded in a Public staging of ‘King Lear,’ confront the opacity, playfulness, and unavoidable bleakness of another master, Beckett.
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Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson, who first bonded in a Public staging of ‘King Lear,’ confront the opacity, playfulness, and unavoidable bleakness of another master, Beckett.
Known for her lively, no-gimmick stagings of Shakespeare with Theatre for a New Audience, the director is branching out with ‘Des Moines.’
Scholars and fans gathered in Boston last month to consider, and reconsider, the contemporary and global relevance of the great, tormented American dramatist.
A seldom-produced Elizabethan epic storms a Brooklyn stage, and its lead actor John Douglas Thompson reflects on the value of Marlowe and the universality of the classic roles.