Beckett News

Somehow, merely seeing Beckett - possibly - and not actually meeting him, seems so appropriately Beckettian.

So long showgirls, hello syrah. For the final two episodes of "Top Chef," our dwindling crew has vacated Sin City for a land of greener pastures in which cows graze, ducks frolic and every roadside stand brims with Delicata squash and maitake mushrooms.

The Mantua Township VFW Post 7679 sponsored a Veterans Poster Contest for fourth grade students in the Mantua Township Schools and the winners were honored at the Veterans Day Ceremony.

To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mantua Township residents for electing me to the township committee last year for a one-year unexpired term.

Good morning! Let's begin this busy day of theater news with a roundup of major new shows from London.

Ruthlessness reigns in twisted 'Le Monde' Jordan Harrison is Mint and Larry Coen is Hall in "The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde.'' 'Have pity on a broken and desperate soul,'' an anguished character named Mint pleads during "The Remarkable Rooming House of Madame Le Monde.'' But pity is in short supply - make that nonexistent - in this ...

Beckett and Havel have been paired many times in analyses of their writing. But did you know each wrote a play for the other? The Guardian has a moving story this week on the relationship between the two titanic playwrights--alas, one that had to remain long-distance, due to one of the men's long term imprisonment.

In Dan Brown's long-awaited new book, we learn many things - about Freemasons, the CIA, fifteenth-century engraver Albrecht Durer's employment of Sudoku.

Above, Delante Keys and Alex Bechtel interact with multiple video screens during a rehearsal for "Fatebook: Avoiding Catastrophe One Party at a Time," which brings to life characters from New Paradise Laboratories who have been on Facebook.

The Amazon Queen is put out. Hercules and other warring males are muscling in on her and her gals.

One of L.A.'s most enduring musical hits is going on the road, on a national tour, with the aim of sliding into Broadway at some point.

Earlier this summer, Greg Bode, a Life Scout with Logan Township Boy Scout Troop 4 - with the help of 18 volunteers - painted the fire hydrant bonnets in many of the Beckett area housing developments with a special reflective paint.

Happy Days: Cosmic comedy. By Samuel Beckett. Directed by Jonathan Moscone. With Patty Gallagher and Dan Hiatt.

Starting last March--and continuing through January of next year--readers will receive no less than three new translations of books from the major Austro-Hungarian modernist writer Jakov Lind .

"WHAT BECOMES" IS A GRACEFUL title. A touch Beckettian perhaps, but let's not be picky.

A Franklin man who works as a school bus driver in the township was arrested Tuesday and charged with sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents in New Brunswick.