We are delighted to announce that ISTR 2026 takes place at TU Dublin, Grangegorman (@tudublin.bsky.social) on 4-5 June, under the theme Stages of Knowledge: Site, Struggle, and Transformation. Welcoming presentations, workshops, performances & practice-based engagements: istr.ie/istr-confere...

@moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @beckettletters.bsky.social @beckettreading.bsky.social 29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.” Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.

WalterAsmus directed several key productions with Sam Beckett including the iconic author directed Schiller Theater Godot in 1974/5. In his seminar at the Minghella Studios here with Matt McFrederick he was witty and informative speaking about the importance of ‘tautness’ in staging #Beckett

Acclaimed theatre director Walter D. Asmus visited Minghella Studies to talk about his collaborations with #SamuelBeckett at the 35th Beckett International Foundation research seminar 🔗 rdg.ac/3LspbMg @uorspeccoll.bsky.social @beckettreading.bsky.social #theatresky

✨ Announcing 3 PhD Studentships within Royal Holloway funded by the AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards ✨ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH439/p...

Please join us at University of Galway next week for this one-day event about @druidtheatre.bsky.social, which features panels from academics and practitioners throughout the day. Registration is free but spaces are limited - and filling up quickly. www.eventbrite.ie/e/druid-at-5...

Focusing on the case study of Druid's Unusual Rural Tour of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (2016), Chloé Duane explores how Druid use site-responsive scenography to engage the histories and cultural legacies of the Inis Meáin landscape.

Image: Druid Ensemble members Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan in Endgame, photo by HanJie Chow.

It's opening night in New York! Our 50th anniversary celebrations continue with a month-long run of our five-star production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame at Irish Arts Center in Manhattan. If you're in the Big Apple, do come see us. We're in town until Sunday 23 November: tinyurl.com/96cy8kwx

On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts. What service he has given us. Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25

Speakers for the BIF seminar on 1 Nov: Ros Maprayil: landscapes in Godot Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’ Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.

The 2025 Beckett International Foundation seminar on 1 Nov at university of Reading is celebrating 70 years of Waiting for Godot with director Walter Asmus who worked closely with Beckett on several productions - more info to follow and you can book here: www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-...

Found him. Plus your man Godot…

White night melodies for Rimbaud’s anniversary, from Beckett's translation of Le Bateau Ivre:

Now available to watch online: Eimear McBride and myself in conversation as part of this year's Liverpool Irish Festival. Runs until 26th October: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/eimea... Features childhood memories of Liverpool, 'pre-lapserian' Camden, film-making and her latest novel.

Fantastic selection of recent Irish writing here -

Remembering Brian Friel on his 10th Anniversary - I wrote about his great works and legacies in this new article on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @rte.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

New blog post: an up-to-date list of Irish literary journals anneolearyblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/i...

www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Delighted to announce this open access book on Staging Beckett in London by Matt McFrederick - fascinating look at Beckett’s London Theatre homes Congrats Matt!

🥳 Now open 🎉 Discover rarely-seen letters and artefacts from the personal archive of beloved author James Joyce in James Joyce: Enigmas & Puzzles. Explore Joyce's social network of friends and artists, his family life, his inspirations, and the adjustments he made to work despite ill-health.

Last month I took part in a plenary session on Early Career Research & Career Building with James Little & Ondřej Pilný at the International Postgraduates Conference in Irish Studies, CU Prague. I start talking about my experiences as an ECR at the 1hr 13 minute mark. youtu.be/eZIbC-uKDaA?...

A James Joyce exhibition begins next week at @themerl.bsky.social in Reading. Runs till 9 Feb. More info here: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/james-...

Company SJ delivers another deeply moving experience of the Irish lan(d)guage with #Beckett Sa Chreig: Guth Na mBan at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social. This virtual “Walking the land” with Mná Na hÉireann is a journey through the grief and care of the everyday sublimated by cast, costume and camera.

A previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney, along with an essay by Rosie Lavan, giving the context for the poem. I will be speaking to Rosie and Bernard O'Donoghue, co-editors of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, on Nov. 1st. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

It was with profound sadness that we learned today of the death of Manchán Magan. The Irish language has had few greater champions in the modern age, with such enthusiasm, empathy and deep cultural understanding. Go raibh maith agat, a Mhanchán, agus suaimhneas síoraí ort.

Lovely present to get, My English Persian Kitchen is one of the best, and moving, pieces of theatre I have seen in a long time - go see it if you can - and the cookbook looks amazing.

"Waiting for Godot is, as the saying goes, a play in which nothing happens, twice." Not a saying. It's Vivian Mercier's endlessly-quoted observation from 1956, so credit where credit is due. Happily Mercier's comma is correctly included.

I've just recorded a wide-ranging interview with Eimear McBride which will launch the Liverpool Irish Festival at 8pm on Thursday 16th October and run throughout the Festival.

Waiting for Godot Review. Keanu Reeves Broadway Debut. “Back to back like in the good old days,” Keanu Reeves as Estragon says to Alex Winter as Vladimir; then they shout something together that makes the audience explode in cheers and laughter. Was this an ad-lib from “Bill & Ted’s Excellent…

My interview with Peter Robinson about his new Selected Poems, Return to Sendai, is available to read for free with The High Window: thehighwindowpress.com/2025/09/26/p...

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...