It takes great The actors who made Samuel Beckett's modern comedy masterpiece, Waiting for GodotIn the fall of 2025, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter—or Bill and Ted, to be exact—will be bringing a play to Broadway. As Estragon exclaims to the play, “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!” In the right hands, it would be hilarious. In the fall of 2025, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter—or Bill and Ted, to Broadway (or not, if you believe the script).
Director Jamie Lloyd will direct the production, which stars Reeves as Estragon and Winter as Vladimir. Reeves, who has been busy appearing in John Wick And Matrix Winter would make his Broadway debut for most of his career. (Although he did play Hamlet in Manitoba in 1995.) Winter, whose film acting career includes a memorable role in The missing children And the pictures he took out like Deep Web And ZappaHe previously appeared in Great White Way as a child, playing Louis Leonowens in The King and I From 1977 to 1978 John Darling was in Peter Pan From 1979 to 1981.
“We are so excited to be on stage together and to work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favorite plays,” Reeves and Winter said in a statement. Hollywood Reporter.
“[Reeves and Winter’s] “Their instant chemistry, their shorthand and their friendship will be invaluable,” said Lloyd, who recently directed the Broadway revival of doll house With Jessica Chastain, narrated New York times “It's a very complex play, as we all know, but it's also a very funny play, and they are people with a sense of humor, and the sense of humor they share in those films and in real life will be very beneficial to the production.”
The revival will be staged at one of the Ambassador Theatre Group's seven locations, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Beckett's 1953 play includes long scenes of Vladimir and Estragon philosophizing and exchanging dirty jokes while waiting for a man named Godot, whom they have never met, to appear. Another couple, Pozzo and Lucky, appear who are even stranger than Vladimir and Estragon, as well as a boy, but most of the show is just the two of them waiting in joy.
Waiting for Godot It has appeared on Broadway four previous times. In 2009, Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane were the main stars while John Goodman and John Glover portrayed Bozo and Lucky, respectively. In 2013, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were the main stars while Shuler Hensley and Billy Crudup portrayed Bozo and Lucky. Both productions received largely positive reviews, according to Did They Like It.
That wasn't the case when Steve Martin and Robin Williams played the lead roles with Mike Nichols directing the play on Broadway in 1988. “Audiences will still be waiting for a transcendent performance Judo “Long after the clowns at Lincoln Center have come and gone, like so many other clowns who have passed through Beckett's eternal world before them,” he wrote. New York times.
But even if the reviews are complete falseThis shouldn't bother the stars. As Estragon says, “People are ignorant monkeys.”
