New York Irish Arts Center 22 October - 23 November 2025
In our 50th anniversary year, we return to New York with a masterpiece from the Irish theatrical canon.
Following a critically acclaimed and record-breaking run in Galway last year, our production of Beckett's Endgame will tour to New York this winter for a month-long run at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan.
Directed by Garry Hynes, the original cast returns for this transatlantic engagement: Bosco Hogan and Druid Ensemble members Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Rory Nolan.
Endgame is the tragicomic tale of a man living with his parents and his servant in a world beyond time and place.
With nowhere to go and not much to do, they spend their days telling stories and contemplating the absurdity of life.
Endgame follows Druid’s award-winning 2016 production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot which toured the world for three years, wowing audiences and critics alike.
Druid has been touring to America since 1986 to great acclaim, most memorably in 1998 for their historic Broadway run of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which won four Tony Awards including Best Actress for Druid co-founder Marie Mullen and Best Director for fellow Druid co-founder Garry Hynes, the first woman to win the Tony for Best Director.
Read more about Druid's 50th anniversary season.
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Critic's Pick – 'it’s awfully good to be in their company ... the fine, funny artists of Garry Hynes’s venerable Druid troupe'
The New York Times
'[a] terrific Endgame from the estimable Irish company Druid'
The Wall Street Journal
'masterful ... remarkably courageous'
TheaterMatters
'if you want to see [Beckett] done well, head off-Broadway ... this one is a must-see'
TheatreMania
'a pristine piece of work, unmissable'
Lighting & Sound America
'an excellent staging ... cements Samuel Beckett as the playwright of the hour'
The New York Sun
'we are fortunate to have the perfectly nimble hands of director Garry Hynes ... the acting throughout [is] about as perfect as perfect can get'
Cinema Stage
★★★★
'flawless ... all four actors bringing Beckett’s death disquisition to piercing life'
New York Stage Review
★★★★
'worth the trip to the Irish Arts Center ... [a] most excellent ensemble'
The Front Row Center
'superb direction of Garry Hynes ... Nolan and Monaghan excel'
Irish Central
'Under Garry Hynes’s direction, this Endgame is full of laughs ... evokes a sort of demented Laurel and Hardy'
Off Off Online
'bleakly beautiful ... the text offers no easy reading, but in Hynes’s hands it becomes less a riddle than a meditation'
Front Mezz Junkies
‘bleakly beautiful study in survival and stasis'
Times Square Chronicles
'delightful ... bewitching ... Among this season's Beckett revivals, this one should convert skeptics while enchanting fans'
The 100 Word Review
★★★★★
‘Garry Hynes’s searing direction makes Beckett new ... assured, meticulous, insightful and emotionally powerful'
The Observer
★★★★★
‘mesmerisingly assured ... without mitigating Beckett’s cosmic pessimism, Hynes’s staging shows us that there is still fun to be had'
Financial Times
★★★★
‘Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy'
The Irish Times
★★★★
'Beckett's classic is still as bleak and brilliant as ever'
The Irish Examiner
★★★★
'a superb addition to the best productions of Beckett's masterpiece'
The Arts Review
'the undoubted highlight of my four days in Galway ... directed by the great Garry Hynes for her famous Druid Theatre Company'
The National
'impressive production ... the cast of this blackly funny bleak piece are superb'
Connacht Tribune
'If you’ve ever wondered about seeing Beckett and wanted to see the canon production, this is the one to see'
Galway Bay FM
1 hour 25 minutes (no interval).
Please note that latecomers cannot be admitted.
Credits
- Nagg Bosco Hogan
- Clov Aaron Monaghan
- Nell Marie Mullen
- Hamm Rory Nolan
- Director Garry Hynes
- Set and Costume Designer Francis O'Connor
- Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls
- Sound Designer Gregory Clarke
- Hair and Make-Up Designer Gráinne Coughlan
- Associate Costume Designer Clíodhna Hallissey
Production Photos
Dates & Tickets
Previous Dates
Galway Town Hall Theatre Galway International Arts Festival 5 July - 28 May 2024
Critic's Pick
The New York Times
Garry Hynes’s searing direction makes Beckett new
The Observer
mesmerisingly assured
Financial Times