Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist and playwright, was one of the great names of Absurd Theatre. His plays are concerned with human suffering and survival. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. As a poet Beckett made his debut in 1930 with Whoroscope, a ninety-eight-line poem accompanied by seventeen footnotes. It was followed with a collection of essays, Proust (1931), and a novel More Pricks Than Kicks (1934). From 1933 to 1936 he lived in London. Between 1946 and 1949 he produced the major prose narrative trilogy, Molloy, Malone Meurt, and L’Innommable, which appeared in the early 1950s. En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot), written in 1949 and published in English in 1954, brought Beckett international fame and established him as one of the leading names of the theater of the absurd. In the 1950s he published Fin de Partie (1957) and Krapp’s Last Tape (1959). In the 1960s Beckett wrote for radio, theater, and television. In the 1970s Mirlitonnades (1978), a collection of short poems, Company (1979) and All Strange Away (1979), which was performed in 1984 in New York. Catastrophe (1984) was written for Vaclav Havel and was about the interrogation of a dissident.   Playwrights' Sidewalk: Samuel Beckett has a star on the Playwrights' Sidewalk.

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Beckett Briefs	Irish Repertory Theatre	01/15/2025	Author
2	Endgame	Irish Repertory Theatre	02/02/2023	Playwright
3	Waiting for Godot	Barrow Street Theatre	09/04/2014	Playwright
4	All That Fall	59E59 Theaters/ Theater A	11/12/2013	Playwright
5	Fragments	BAC/ Jerome Robbins Theater	04/21/2013	Text
6	Fragments	BAC/ Jerome Robbins Theater	11/13/2011	Author
7	Beckett Shorts	New York Theatre Workshop	12/18/2007	Playwright
8	Waiting for Godot	HSA Theatre	05/18/2006	Playwright
9	Waiting for Godot	Theater at St. Clement's Church	11/16/2005	Playwright
10	Endgame	Irish Repertory Theatre	02/24/2005	Playwright
11	Happy Days	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	02/15/2005	Playwright
12	Beckett/Albee	Century Center For The Performing Arts	10/09/2003	Playwright
13	Happy Days	Cherry Lane Theatre	09/29/2002	Playwright
14	Texts for Nothing	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	10/15/2000	Playwright
15	Endgame	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	10/05/1995	Playwright
16	Krapp's Last Tape	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	03/29/1993	Playwright
17	Texts for Nothing	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater	10/20/1992	Playwright
18	Happy Days	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	10/02/1990	Playwright
19	I'll Go On	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	06/10/1989	Original Author
20	Waiting for Godot	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	10/11/1988	Playwright
21	Krapp's Last Tape	Samuel Beckett Theatre	08/27/1986	Playwright
22	All Strange Away	Samuel Beckett Theatre	09/23/1984	Playwright
23	Endgame	Samuel Beckett Theatre	06/28/1984	Playwright
24	Rockaby	Samuel Beckett Theatre	02/16/1984	Playwright
25	Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where	Harold Clurman Theater	06/15/1983	Playwright
26	Play and Other Plays	American Place Theatre	04/29/1983	Playwright
27	Waiting for Godot	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater	04/22/1981	Playwright
28	Endgame	Stage 73	01/01/1980	Playwright
29	Mercier & Camier	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater	10/25/1979	Original Author
30	Happy Days	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater	06/01/1979	Playwright
31	Play and Other Plays	Stage 73	12/14/1977	Playwright
32	Endgame	Roundabout Stage I (23rd Street Theater)	03/28/1977	Playwright
33	Krapp's Last Tape / Not I	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	11/22/1972	Playwright
34	Happy Days / Act Without Words 1	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	11/20/1972	Playwright
35	Waiting for Godot	Sheridan Square Playhouse	02/03/1971	Playwright
36	Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater	11/19/1970	Material
37	Endgame	Washington Square Methodist Church	05/30/1970	Playwright
38	Oh! Calcutta!	Eden Theatre	06/17/1969	Material
39	Happy Days	Cherry Lane Theatre	09/28/1965	Playwright
40	Happy Days	Cherry Lane Theatre	09/14/1965	Playwright
41	Krapp's Last Tape / The Zoo Story1	Cherry Lane Theatre	06/08/1965	Playwright
42	Play / The Lover	Cherry Lane Theatre	01/04/1964	Playwright
43	Happy Days	Cherry Lane Theatre	09/17/1961	Playwright
44	Krapp's Last Tape / The Zoo Story1	East End Theatre	09/12/1961	Playwright
45	Embers	Lucille Lortel Theatre	10/25/1960	Playwright
46	Krapp's Last Tape / The Zoo Story1	Provincetown Playhouse	01/14/1960	Playwright
47	Endgame	Cherry Lane Theatre	01/28/1958	Playwright

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Krapp's Last Tape	Samuel Beckett Theatre	08/27/1986	Director

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2023 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival	Endgame	Playwright
2	WON	1984 Obie Award, Playwriting	Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where	Playwright
3	WON	1973 Obie Award, Best Foreign Play	Krapp's Last Tape / Not I	Playwright
4	WON	1962 Obie Award, Best Foreign Play	Happy Days	Playwright
5	WON	1960 Obie Award, Distinguished Play	Krapp's Last Tape / The Zoo Story	Playwright