THEATRE
WAITING FOR GODOT. Samuel Beckett takes a backseat to inspired if intrusive clowning by Robin Williams and Steve Martin in a sold-out run at Manhattan's Lincoln Center.
EASTERN STANDARD. Insider trading, bag ladies, AIDS and the excesses of nouvelle cuisine -- everything '80s gets skewered, then sentimentalized, in a deft off-Broadway satire.
ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION. In John Patrick Shanley's Little Italy, all the women are worldly-wise, and all the men are moonstruck. John Turturro leads the cast of this chocolate-heart comedy at the Manhattan Theater Club.
BOOKS
THE HIGH ROAD by Edna O'Brien (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The Irish...
