For any interested ECRs. samuelbeckettsociety.org/2025/09/21/s...

Delighted to doscover that Romanian composer György Kurtág (born Feb 1926) is still with us. Here's his setting of Beckett's 'what is the word' www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK1l...

The #Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for #Theatre #Research will meet at the next congress (Melbourne, 6–10 July 2026). 🎭 Theme: '"Nothing to be done": What Samuel Beckett Theatre Does and What We Do with It." 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: 8 December 2026 📄 Full CFP ⬇️

We also look after the personal archive of Beckett’s close friend, James Joyce. Never-before-seen papers from this remarkable collection will appear soon in our upcoming free exhibition, James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles. Opens 7 Oct. collections.reading.ac.uk/special-coll...

We're looking forward to sharing more information about this amazing visit very soon. In the meantime, you can learn all about the contents and breadth of the Samuel Beckett Collection kept here at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on our website: collections.reading.ac.uk/special-coll...

We hold the world's largest Samuel Beckett Collection, and frequently welcome researchers, actors and dramatists. In April, this included the cast of the upcoming Jamie Lloyd Co production of Waiting for Godot – including actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Jacqueline du Pré breaks a string at the beginning of the final movement of the Dvorak Cello Concerto. The announcer calls it a "tragedy"; he didn't know the half of it! After repairs, du Pré & Barenboim give a triumphant performance of the last movement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_yx...

An important visual inspiration for Beckett’s Waiting for Godot! #beckett #WaitingforGodot

We're thrilled to see our production of Endgame included in The New York Times' highlights of the upcoming season of theatre in New York! Our five-star Endgame plays the Irish Arts Center for a month beginning in late October. Tickets are on sale now: tinyurl.com/96cy8kwx

🎭 We're hiring! The Abbey Theatre is currently seeking applications for the role of Deputy Stage Manager. Closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday, 19th September 2025. https://careers.abbeytheatre.ie/deputy-stage-manager-260639.htm?rgcref=RGCREF

September 2025 New York Theater Openings Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in September, including three plays on Broadway, two of them starry revivals: Keanu Reeves making his Broadway debut in “Waiting for Godot”  and Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris in “Art.”…

Thanks Broadway! Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter Tease Jamie Lloyd's 'Waiting For Godot' www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Gc...

found a flyer for this astonishing post-Katrina production of Godot stage completely filled with water, the actors sitting on the roof of a submerged house, Pozzo & Lucky entered in a little boat went with my mother, long time ago

Jermyn Street Theatre has unveiled its next wave of programming, which features actors including Siân Phillips and Robert Powell alongside a site-specific Samuel Beckett production that takes place in streets around the venue. Read more 👇

Apply now: Playwright in Residence 2026 A unique opportunity for writers to develop bold new work at the intersection of research and storytelling, in collaboration with @traversetheatre.bsky.social Full details on eligibility and how to apply can be found here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iashtraverse...

🔥Beckett like you’ve never seen him before Join us at The Irish Cultural Centre on Fri 12 Sep at 8pm for the UK launch of Not Beckett: The Plays. 5 brilliant Irish writers bring Samuel Beckett’s ideas to life in live readings + discussion. 7.30pm irishculturalcentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

New York has come up with the only thing that would make me sad not to visit the US. godotbroadway.com

We forgot to post this on #WorldPhotographyDay but luckily it is still #WorldPhotographyWeek (and it is a video, so perfect for the #bankholidayweekend)... We were delighted to have legendary photographer John Minihan give a talk at our Beckett:Unbound Festival in 2024. Enjoy: youtu.be/jspVqhDreDA

Fantastic interview of theatre director Yuta Hagiwara about his telephone play Breath <Message Dial ver.> after #Beckett's Breath. Interview led by @alshalanamjad.bsky.social & published on her blog dedicated to #Saudi and #world #literatures. 5atrah.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...

“It was the man & the work & the play – a play about memory, time, loneliness, death, futility & art all meshed into one. It was, no question, the greatest thing I have ever seen.” Sonia Friedman on Harold Pinter in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape directed by Ian Rickson: shorturl.at/skIs9

🎭 The Samuel Beckett omnibus at Exeter Library 🎭 A madcap, hilarious and moving theatre experience for all! Whether you're an absolute Beckett beginner or a huge fan. Includes 16 of his plays, prose, and poems. 📅 Fri 26 Sept 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Dear Readers & Writers, I want to share an impressive literary magazine that I'm new to, @evergreenreview.bsky.social Evergreen has published: James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Milan Kundera, Marguerite Duras, Angela Davis: evergreenreview.com #writing #politics

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

www.bloomsbury.com/us/beckett-a... out today!

Robert Wilson RIP. American giant. davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2013/02/lect...

An amazing new documentary about my huge influence and inspiration Meredith Monk. Hope it comes to Ireland soon

Two great new additions to @methuendrama.bsky.social’s Student Editions series: Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (introduced by Isaiah Matthew Wooden) & Kwame Kwei-Armah’s ‘Beneatha’s Place’ (introduced by Oladipo Agboluaje) 👏👏 Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/student-editions

Matthew Kelly will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as part of a new season at Glasgow Citizens Theatre, which also includes George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and Lynn Nottage’s Sweat 👇

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

Touretteshero co-founder Jess Thom has revealed her theatre company has paused its creative programming to weather a cut to her share of a fund that helps disabled people get and keep jobs 👇

on 12 Sept we will be celebrating the publication of Not Beckett - the Anthology in London please join us for drinks, a panel discussion and a discount on copies at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/not-be...

An amazing project working with @readingcouncil.bsky.social and @uor-research.bsky.social - see the online exhibition exploring the community histories and stories www.readingmuseum.org.uk/online-exhib...

CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

The great Alfred Brendel once gave a piano lesson devoted to Schubert’s G-major sonata D894; the entire lesson was spent on the opening tonic chord. Or so I was told. RIP maestro. Your Schubert and Haydn will never die. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBis...

50 years of Druid with Garry Hynes | Oliver Callan - RTÉ Radio 1 - a captivating interview telling the great story of @druidtheatre.bsky.social on its fiftieth birthday with also, poignantly, Garry’s movingly expressed insights on loss and grief… www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

We are celebrating the opening of Joyce’s personal archive next year, and displaying items which reveal more about the author behind the puzzles of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The exhibition is in the Museum of English Rural life staircase hall from 7 Oct 2025 - 9 Feb 2026. More details to follow!

Happy Bloomsday to all! We are pleased to announce a new exhibition from the Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection, James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles.

‘But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life. What, says Alf Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.’ My favourite quote from #Ulysses #Bloomsday

“'The Second Coming' may well be the most thoroughly pillaged piece of literature in English." - Nick Tabor on W. B. Yeats's omnipresent poem, at The Paris Review theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04... Speaking of which: Paul Noth, New Yorker, October 27, 2014

Great first day at #IFTR2025 with the #Beckett Working Group, reflecting on Beckett’s Grey Carnival. Looking forward to the rest of the week at @unicologne.bsky.social.

Siobhán Bourke and Jane Daly are two of the most generous people and have supported countless theatre makers and artists - to be able to present them with the Outstanding Contribution to Irish Theatre award from @irishtheatreres.bsky.social was a real pleasure. Congrats Jane and Siobhán!

if you fancy coming to see #myEnglishPersiankitchen at Soho theatre book up now while tix under £30 but the closer we get to performances the more they will rise so get them while they’re hot and cheap! P.s. We sold Out last time so don’t wait x sohotheatre.com/events/my-en...

Two translations of Dante’s Paradiso are set to come out in the year of our Lord 2025. Come July we’ll get Mary Jo Bang’s "irreverent” conclusion, published by Graywolf Press, and in August NYRB will give us D. M. Black’s second installment (anyone knows if he plans on translating Inferno?).

Theatre news: Five-year-long celebration of Brian Friel to launch in August - FrielDays: A Homecoming to showcase Northern Irish playwright in lead up to centenary of his birth. www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/five-ye...

This will really be something, and something else as well. With music from Mumblin' Deaf Ro and Jacob Hession, poetry from Nuala O'Connor and performance from Stephanie Ellyne. All welcome, especially sceptics.

Beckett: Unbound 2024 was funded by @irishinstitute.bsky.social, @notredame.bsky.social and Culture Ireland, and with thanks to @liverpooluni.bsky.social Alumni and Friends fund. We are grateful to acknowledge additional funding received from The TS Eliot Foundation and the Martin and Rimmer Trusts.

Recordings include: Dr Hannah Simpson (University of Edingburgh) - "New Directions in Beckett Performance: Beyond the Boundaries": youtu.be/xyUAz1eOcw4 Rough For Radio II Panel Discussion: youtu.be/o5w-EzRNCyk John Minihan - Beckett and the Wake (Illustrated Talk): youtu.be/jspVqhDreDA

#otd 1 year ago "Beckett: Unbound" started. Hosted by us and @ndirishstudies.bsky.social in association with Unreal Cities, it featured 4 days of dance, music, film, discussion and theatre celebrating the works of Samuel Beckett. Look back with our playlist of the talks: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Still no listing on the Faber website for Tom Paulin's new poetry collection, Namanalagh, but it is listed here by Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/namanla...

Also their double act in #beckett’s Waiting for Godot 2009 Theatre Royal Haymarket London + tour