Bill Irwin

Broadway Review: “Eureka Day” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Currently On)

What could go wrong at a private school whose five-member board of directors makes all decisions based on consensus and has what benefitted the community at heart as their guiding principle. A board so committed to inclusion that The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California’s cultural identity drop-down menu for prospective parents offers eleven choices. And if Eli (an oblivious…

Off-Broadway Review: “On Beckett” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage

October 3, 2018 | bill irwin, irish repertory, Off-Broadway, on beckett > | "On Beckett", Bill Irwin, Carol Rosegg, Charlie Corcoran, Finn O’Sullivan, Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, Irish Repertory Theatre, M. Florian Staab, Martha Hally, Michael Gottlieb

“On Beckett,” currently playing at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage, is part performance, part graduate school lecture (with perambulation), part predilections on whether Samuel Beckett’s writing is “natural clown territory,” and part perusal of the importance of culture and language – all presented with perfection and seemingly unbridled passion by Bill Irwin. During Mr. Irwin’s introduction, it becomes…