Staff Explorer Pass - Michigan Arts Festival 2026

***Please note that complimentary Staff Explorer Pass tickets are limited to U-M staff members and limited amounts are available. Only register for yourself, and please let us know if you can no longer attend. Once registered, please plan to pick up your ticket at Will Call on performance day.  

REGISTER BY 10/2!

This registration is for complimentary U-M staff tickets. Seating is General Admission. To purchase additional tickets or for more information on this performance, visit the SMTD ticketing website here.

Born in colonized Ireland just after the turn of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett wrote about how power works, and how it works on people -- especially the dispossessed and the destitute. His own experience hiding from the Gestapo in the French countryside surfaces in most famous play, Waiting for Godot (1953).Time Passes presents eight short plays written after Godot, from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Showcasing Beckett's verbal play and visual precision, as well as his political imagination, they meet our own moment -- fierce, funny, uncompromising, and compassionate as ever.

This program is part of the Michigan Arts Festival Staff Explorer Pass. In partnership with Voices of the Staff, the U-M Arts Initiative is offering limited complimentary tickets for select campus events and extra special experiences for U-M staff members all throughout October! For a list of all Staff Explorer Pass events, visit https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/23512