Waiting for Godot

Great theater challenges the audience by confronting viewers’ biases and prompting them to consider alternative perspectives. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett at the Guthrie Theater, now through October 11, is one such play. When I saw it first during college, I had such a visceral response to its Absurdist form of drama and lack…

Pride and Prejudice

by Christine Sarkes Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at the Theatre in the Round now through October 5 is not the sedate BBC versions you’ve come to love and expect. Under the direction of Penelope Parsons-Lord and with Kate Hamill’s adaption, this is a rollicking, raucous, chaotic, and joyful contemporary spectacle. As a devoted Janeite,…