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Lahr, Bert

(Encyclopedia) Lahr, Bert, 1895–1967, American comic actor, b. New York City, originally named Irving Lahrheim. Lahr first performed in burlesque and vaudeville, where he became known for his morose…

Hall, Sir Peter Reginald Frederick

(Encyclopedia) Hall, Sir Peter Reginald Frederick, 1930–2017, British theatrical director, b. Bury St. Edmonds, grad. Cambridge, 1953. He directed several acclaimed plays at Cambridge, and one…

Beckett, Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Beckett, SamuelBeckett, Samuelbĕkˈĭt [key], 1906–89, Anglo-French playwright and novelist, b. Dublin. Beckett studied and taught in Paris before settling there permanently in 1937. He…

Waiting

Waiting“My wife, I have bad news for thee,” said Professor Bhaer, coming in one day early in January.“Please tell it at once. I can't bear to wait, Fritz,” cried Mrs Jo, dropping her work and…

Samuel Beckett Biography

Samuel Beckettplaywright, novelistBorn: 4/13/1906Birthplace: Foxrock, County Dublin, Ireland With the production of En attendent Godot (1952, Waiting for Godot) in Paris in 1954, Beckett…

Waiting for Guffman

Director: Christopher GuestWriters: Christopher Guest and Eugene LevyDirector of Photography:Roberto SchaeferEditor:Andy BlumenthalMusic:Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher…

Brewer's: Waits

Street musicians, who serenade the principal inhabitants at Christmas-time, especially on Christmas Eve. From Rymer's Faedra we learn it was the duty…

Tom Waits

Tom Waits released his first album, Closing Time, in 1973. It was a set of bluesy ballads about love gone sour, and established his musical persona as a raspy-voiced, whiskey-soaked denizen of smoky…

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for a body of work that includes novels, essays, poems and plays. His best-known play, Waiting for Godot (1953) is a comic study of…

Klíma, Ivan

(Encyclopedia) Klíma, IvanKlíma, Ivanēvänˈ klēmˈə [key], 1931–, Czech author, b. Prague as Ivan Kauders, grad. Charles Univ., Prague (1956). Of Jewish descent, Klíma spent 1941–45 in the…