Essays on Theater and the Arts

Mike Nichols directs Steve Martin and Robin Williams in “Waiting For Godot”

The New Yorker, November 21, 1988

The Lincoln Center “Godot” was an ill-starred encounter between two antithetical schools of comedy—one born of academic humor, the other a reaction against college-bred gravitas. Continue reading

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§2912 · November 21, 1988 · Broadway Theater, Popular Culture, Revivals, The New Yorker Archive · Comments Off on Hot Ticket to Nowhere · Tags: , , ,