James Macdonald captures the play’s emotional depth and its political power at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket ...

It’s almost seventy years since the 1955 premiere of Waiting for Godot in Britain, when it was greeted with boredom and ...

Whishaw and Lucian Msamati do well to fill the shoes of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart who last starred in the West End ...

The seminal Samuel Beckett classic is back at the Theatre Royal Haymarket! Last night the theatre world turned its spotlight ...

Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen - 4/5 Ben ...

It is thrilling to have the opportunity to study this incomparable and mercurial actor live once again, after the ...

The curtain rises on a barren landscape with a single tree, leafless. Rae Smith’s setting, a chopped-off piece of tree, ...

Describing a play as complex is not a theatre marketing department’s dream, so if stars – who are also great actors – can ...

For a play that plumbs the fathomless Godless tedium of existence, Beckett’s evasive 1952 masterpiece is surprisingly ...

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is directed by James Macdonald, starring Lucian Msamati as Estragon and Ben Whishaw as ...

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati give precision-tooled performances in a delicate and desolate production of Samuel Beckett’s seminal drama ...

Hence James MacDonald’s revival with the less obvious, if no less magnetic star billing of Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati ... This is a Godot as spiritual allegory, as political parable ...