Endgame

Ireland's marvelous Druid Theatre Company, a frequent visitor to New York, unpacks a new staging of Samuel Beckett's 1957 masterwork, a darkly funny metatheatrical exploration of existential dread. The director is Druid founder Garry Hynes, whose work on 1998's The Beauty Queen of Leenane made her the first woman ever to win a Tony for directing. Rory Nolan and Aaron Monaghan, respectively, play the blind and domineering Hamm and his long-suffering servant Clov; Bosco Hogan and Marie Mullen (who also won a Tony for Beauty Queen) get canned as elderly garbage dwellers.