Tag: Robert McNamara
Gravitas and great acting unspool in Scena Theatre’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
Robert McNamara enters indelibly into the memory of Samuel Beckett’s famous recluse. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Scena Theatre finds the absurd wonder in Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’
A show about waiting with nothing particularly happening can be fascinating with the right casting, and this production has it all. By DEBBIE MINTER JACKSON
In ‘The Last Drop’ at Scena, castaways from a catastrophe have...
For the survivors in this Beckettian dystopia imagined by Australian playwright John Shand, drinking water is scarce and so is civility. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Nobel winner Jon Fosse’s ‘Strong Wind’ is a kick at Scena...
The absorbing prose-poem drama plays in one’s mind like a linguistic trickster. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Scena Theatre to present U.S. premiere of Jon Fosse’s ‘Strong Wind’
The haunting and surreal drama is a new work by Europe's most-performed living playwright.
Scena Theatre’s ‘Three by Yeats’ reclaims Irish national mythology
A stylized staging of poetic playlets written by William Butler Yeats as Ireland fought for independence.
Gabriele Jakobi, Scena’s renowned director, died January 2 at age 69
The native of Germany is survived by her husband, Robert McNamara, founder and artistic director of Scena Theatre.
A first-rate adaptation of ‘The Time Machine’ at Scena Theatre
Ron Litman is superb as the Professor who travels far into the future of the human race.
Scena Theatre opens transfixing and exhilarating ‘Beckett Shorts’
The anthology of four dark comedies is an overview of the renowned playwright’s themes and techniques.
Scena Theatre to present four black comedies by Samuel Beckett
With 'Beckett Shorts,' the company returns to its modernist roots of staging great works by the masters of literature and theater.