“After an acclaimed run at Soho Rep last spring, Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s play is back for a longer stint in Brooklyn. Told in English and Bangla, with supertitles about the stage, the play depicts a Bengali American Ph.D. student and…
10 Arts and Culture Favorites from 2023 “It’s rare that I can use a year-end list to endorse a theater show that people still have a chance to see. Shayok Misha’s revelatory and affectionate bilingual play Public Obscenities premiered at SoHo Rep…
Waiting for Godot “In Arin Arbus’s vigorous, earthy production…Paul Sparks and Michael Shannon brought the play’s humor and its humanity to the fore in a pair of gutsy and charmingly distinctive performances.” Prometheus Firebringer “(Writer and Director Annie Dorsen) made…
“Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Arin Arbus—who’s always up to something you want to see—is often set aside as an example of onstage philosophizing, all cerebral existentialism, with none of the comforts of conventional plot. But in the…
“MICHAEL SHANNON AND PAUL SPARKS…THE POWERHOUSE DUO… ARE WELL WORTH WAITING FOR GODOT…Shannon and Sparks blend their idiosyncratic styles so ingeniously with the text, they give it uncommon clarity. Arbus and her actors achieve a dynamic and even heartfelt production…
“It’s been 70 years since the play premiered, and this production is evidence of its ongoing power. Purposefully ambiguous, this play seems timeless. Godot, like Gogo and Didi, isn’t going anywhere.” Read more from Time Out Magazine here.
“WIT AND HUMANITY…REMARKABLY LIBERATING…Arin Arbus’s Waiting for Godot feels vigorous and down-to-earth. As a duo, Sparks and Shannon have all the chemistry you would hope for…they light up. ” Read more from New York Magazine here.
“EXCELLENT PRODUCTION…RIVETING…Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring a bracing comedic energy that makes sense of the play’s various absurdities and resonant depth. It’s a rare production that you want to carry on waiting for Godot with Didi and Gogo, but…
“Seeing Michael Shannon take on the role of Estragon in this Theatre for a New Audience production sounds especially exciting.” Steven McElroy, The New York Times Read more from The New York Times here.
“I once saw its stars, Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks, crack each other up onstage so hard that they had to hide under a blanket. If you think a little existential dread will make them behave, I’ve got a tree…