Let me be completely honest. Sometimes sitting in a theater and watching any play created by legendary, avant-garde Irish playwright Samuel Beckett can feel like being trapped in a room watching ...

In Krapp's Last Tape, pulitzer Prize winner Samuel Beckett created a haunting tale of a man searching for meaning in his life, a theme that permeates both of his masterpieces; Waiting for Godot and ...

Oscar winner and veteran actor Gary Oldman will return to the British stage in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape at the York Theatre Royal next spring. Oldman, currently the star of AppleTV+ hit Slow ...

KRAPP’S LAST TAPE, Samuel Beckett's meditation on time, memory, and regret, now running at 21ten Theatre starring Bruce Burkhartsmeier, is a masterful production that cuts straight to the bone. In the ...

Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman is returning to the stage after nearly four decades to star in a new production of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” at the York Theatre Royal. Oldman began his ...

Krapp’s Last Tape York Theatre Royal Sarah Freeman 4/5 It is easy to see why Beckett turns so many people cold. Much of the Irish playwright’s work is not only unremittingly bleak, but ditching ...

Is it better to have had ambitions and failed at them, then never to have tried at all? Better to have made definitive choices, even if time has proven them wrongheaded? With minutely calibrated ...

Should you have been waiting in earnest for Krapp to show up – not unlike a character in a different Samuel Beckett play – this is your week. At the York Royal Theatre, Gary Oldman takes on the role ...

Comparisons, as they say, are odious. So, how to handle the coincidence of two versions of "Krapp's Last Tape," one at Long Wharf, the other at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, both starring well-known ...

PICTURES OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN: Steven Samuels plays a character reliving his youth through recordings in 'Krapp's Last Tape,' one of two absurdist plays staged by The Sublime Theater. Photo courtesy of ...