Off-Broadway’s Endgame to Be Live Streamed This April

Off-Broadway’s Endgame to Be Live Streamed This April

Following multiple collaborations with Broadway's Second Stage Theater, The League of Live Stream Theater will present off-Broadway's Endgame from Nobel Prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett next month.

A tragicomedy of epic proportions, Endgame represents Beckett's fierce declaration of oblivion in a world populated with its last survivors. The play, about the end of everything, moves inexorably to its own conclusion, with its own humor bursting out of the bounds of Beckett's dark account of the Earth's last whimper.

The production stars Starring Bill Irwin, John Douglas Thompson, Joe Grifasi, and Patrice Johnson Chevannes, and is directed by Samuel Beckett.

 


 

The last four performances of the off-Broadway production will be live-streamed from April 14-16, 2023, direct from the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage in New York.

The ticketed event will be presented live during regularly scheduled performances and will not be a pre-recorded video. Viewers will need to watch at their chosen performance time and will be unable to view the show a second time or at a later date.

Tickets to the live stream are now available on sale and are available globally for $59. Interested viewers can purchase live stream passes through the league's official website.

 


 

Endgame tells the story of Hamm (John Douglas Thompson), who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound.

His only escape from his solitary world is the company of his aging, legless parents (Joe Grifasi and Patrice Johnson Chevannes), who live in garbage bins, and his shuffling servant, Clov (Bill Irwin), who is at his beck and call, and who, like a dog, comes when whistled for. The only thing left for Hamm is to wait for the inevitable end.

In his review for the Wall Street Journal, Charles Isherwood said: "Like all classic works of art, Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” is both ageless and ever timely. But the play has a grim frisson of fresh resonance today. During the pandemic many of us spent days and nights hunkered down at home, in our own personal bunkers, staring out at a changed, empty world. And so the setting of Beckett’s bleak comedy, a single chamber where the play’s four characters live in a kind of eternal limbo—with each dreary day succeeded by another just like it, until their lives simply wind down—strikes a new and darkly familiar chord."