Keanu Reeves And Alex Winter Reuniting For Broadway Production Of ‘Waiting For Godot’
deadline.comBill & Ted are planning another excellent adventure: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will star in a Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot this fall, with Jamie Lloyd directing.
The new production will play at an ATG theater to be announced. Reeves will play Estragon to Winter’s Vladimir. In a joint statement, Reeves and Winter said, “We’re incredibly excited to be on stage together and work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favorite plays.” Lloyd said, “It is a real honor to be collaborating with the brilliant Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Samuel Beckett’s sublime masterpiece — one of the greatest plays of all time.” Waiting for Godot is produced by The Jamie Lloyd Company, ATG Productions, Bad Robot Live, and Gavin Kalin Productions.
101 Productions, Ltd. will serve as general manager. Additional information about Waiting For Godot including theater, production dates, additional casting, and creative team will be announced in the coming months.
Reeves and Winter, of course, played the title characters in the 1989 and have remained friends for 35 years. Waiting For Godot will mark Reeves’ Broadway debut, while Winters appeared on Broadway in the 1979 production of Peter Pan playing John Darling opposite Sandy Duncan.
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