This fall, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is once again drawing audiences to Broadway, with its enigmatic blend of humor, hopelessness, and haunting stillness. It’s a timely reminder of how profoundly a…

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, currently starring in the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, recently visited The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about the famed Samuel Beckett play. For the uniniti…

Seriously, using a childhood favorite to throw existential dread into the increasingly lined faces of Gen-Xers isn't a bad idea. At times, it's even brilliant. By respectively casting the now 60-something Alex …

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?” Vladimir asks this question in Act II of “Waiting for Godot,” and it hangs in the air of the Hudson Theatre like an accusation. It is the question we do not …

The Broadway Theatre Review: Waiting for Godot by Ross I’ve seen the pictures. Of the curtain calls and the production stills. But nothing prepared me for the awesome spectacle of that massive drainage pipe i…

There is a certain buzz in the Hudson Theatre the moment Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter step onstage. The energy is kinetic, almost giddy—an audience reunion decades in the making for fans of their Bill & T…

Is it Gah-Doh or GOD-dot? That was my first question upon receiving the invitation to see the revival of Samuel Becket’s classic play, “Waiting for Godot.” Director Jamie Llloyd opted for the latter, emph…

Review by Carol Rocamora... Director Jamie Lloyd gives us a daring version of Beckett's classic The post A long-Awaited “Waiting For Godot” Arrives on Broadway appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.

Join my channel to gain access to exclusive content ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQi6IkbVa2SJok8fUZOpKw/join • OHMYGOD HEY! One of the earliest openings of the new Broadway season has been a p…

Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s play is in danger of punking a classic most heinously. Alex Winter as Vladimir and Keanu Reeves as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Courtesy DKC/O&M. Phot…

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

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A new revival of Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece Waiting for Godot officially opened at Broadway's Hudson Theatre September 28. The limited engagement is scheduled to continue through January 4, 2026. Di…

The duo has reunited on Broadway in a new Jamie Lloyd-directed revival of Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece.

Ragtime was a sell-out, Waiting For Godot approached the $2 million mark and Hamilton once again broke the $3 million mark in an overall hold-steady week on Broadway. In total, the 27 Broadway shows grossed $31…

'Waiting For Godot,' starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, also continues to be a top-grossing show.

On Tuesday, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter joined TODAY to talk about starring in the new Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which recently opened at the Hudson Theatre. The conversation op…

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They partied with Napoleon and Socrates, foiled murderous robots from the future and outwitted Death himself. Now Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who played metalhead slackers in three “Bill & Ted” films …

The opening night of Waiting for Godot, featuring the reunion of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, was a glittering red carpet lovefest. “You’re killing it!” Winter …

'Waiting for Godot,' starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, also brought in a strong $1.6 million during its opening week.

Stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, director Jamie Lloyd and more welcome WAITING FOR GODOT back to Broadway on opening night. Get tickets to WAITING FOR GODOT: https://www.broadway.com/shows/waiting-for-godo…

Before taking on the role of Pozzo in the Jamie Lloyd-directed production of Waiting for Godot on Broadway, Brandon J. Dirden had never performed in something so nontraditional. A veteran of the stage, Dirden's…

Jamie Lloyd is back on Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. The production officially opened on September 28. Check out photos from the o…

Broadway's best and Hollywood's brightest came out to play at the Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter-led production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Directed by Jamie Lloyd and also starring Michael Patrick Th…

Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter reunite from Bill & Ted to co-star in Waiting For Godot on Broadway. See you at the SHO!

Jamie Lloyd is directing the Samuel Beckett classic, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.

The duo are headlining a new production of Samuel Beckett's classic dark comedy.

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are now on Broadway in Jamie Lloyd's new production of Waiting for Godot. The real-life friends, who are known for their roles together in the Bill & Ted franchise, sat down wit…

Bill and Ted are on Broadway. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who starred in 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and its two sequels together, have reunited for director Jamie Lloyd’s new Broa…

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff and Kieran Culkin were among the headliners who came out to support Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s new collaboration.

Fans of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure registered delight throughout the Hudson Theatre. Bogus? Not a jot.

Jamie Lloyd returns to Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Check out photos of the cast on the opening night red carpet below! The stric…

Celebrated actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are real-life friends who are starring on Broadway as two friends searching for meaning in an absurd world. Waiting for Godot is the greatest play ever written abo…

What’s curious in “Waiting for Godot” is that the textual distillation we have come to expect from Lloyd is largely missing. So is his interpretive stamp. For the most part here, he doesn’t seem to have…

Their finely tuned performances are unshowy and completely in service of the production. They’re neither vaudevillians clowning for our enjoyment nor thespians hamming up each ponderous line. Reeves and Winte…

Neither one of them is reinventing the wheel, and neither is Lloyd. Despite the absence of a tree—or maybe they’re inside the tree?—it’s a relatively straightforward Waiting for Godot that’s performed…

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The polarizing British …

Jamie Lloyd is directing the Samuel Beckett classic, a reunion for the Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure stars.

Jamie Lloyd’s pristinely chic Broadway revival of the existential tragicomedy casts the “Bill & Ted” stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as Samuel Beckett’s clowns.

★★★☆☆ Keanu Reeves, in his Broadway bow, and Alex Winter reunite in Jamie Lloyd's latest, a predictably flashy take on the Beckett classic The post Waiting for Godot: Didi & Gogo’s Not-So-Excel…

Hudson Theatre, New York The Bill & Ted stars land on Broadway for Jamie Lloyd’s disorienting and intermittently engaging take on Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot is, as the saying goes, a pla…

By David Sheward September 28, 2025: The biggest box-office hit of the new, startlingly sparse Broadway fall season is, surprisingly, a revival of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s classic comedy-drama of …

Theatrely's Broadway review of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter and directed by Jamie Lloyd at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic masterwork “Waiting for Godot” is offstage in Jamie Lloyd’s re-envisioned revival. The polarizing British …

Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd verbiage to conduct id…

Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the latest Broadway revival of the 1952 play that marries bleak existentialism with broken-down vaudeville also features Brandon J. Dirden and Michael Patrick Thornton.

The Bill & Ted buddies have a tender rapport Jamie Lloyd’s revival. The post ‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Face the Music in Beckett Revival appeared first on Slant Magazine…

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who famously played stoner time travelers in the Bill & Ted comedies 35 years ago, were not high on anyone’s list to tackle the philosophizing tramps Estragon and Vladimir in…

★★★☆☆ Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star in Jamie Lloyd's production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece The post Waiting for Godot: Beckett’s Tramps, Partying On appeared first on New York Stage Review…

“Back to back like in the good old days,” Keanu Reeves as Estragon says to Alex Winter as Vladimir; then they shout something together that makes the audience explode in cheers and laughter. Was this an ad-…

In the sense that Keanu Reeves shows up for work at “Waiting for Godot,” the play that opened Sunday night on Broadway, the crowd gets what they came for.

Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot is now open on Broadway. Starring Keanu Reeves as ‘Estragon’ and Alex Winter as ‘Vladimir', the strictly limited engageme…

The notoriously private star is sharing his love of theatre, and his favorite films, in the Waiting for Godot Playbill.

Jamie Lloyd’s new production of the Samuel Beckett classic stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.

Production designer Soutra Gilmour describes her design philosophy; Jamie Lloyd reflects on their partnership; and more.

The new Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, has announced a special initiative with the New York City Department of Education. More than 500 publi…

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have spent a lot of time pondering the notion and nature of waiting recently. “There’s a lot of kinds of waiting,” Reeves reflected while in conversation with Broadway.com. …

See BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as they get ready for WAITING FOR GODOT. Get tickets to WAITING FOR GODOT: https://www.broadway.com/shows/waiting-for-godot/

Broadway's new Waiting for Godot is the latest star-driven play revival to dominate ticket sales on the Main Stem.

Fall is here, and that means a slate of buzzy new shows coming to Broadway. The fall preview episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal has the inside scoop on all 14 productions opening this season. Learn …

Waiting For Godot (starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) and a supercharged Hamilton (with newly returned star Leslie Odom, Jr., reprising his role as Aaron Burr) were among Broadway’s top earners last week,…

'Cabaret' also played its final performance on Broadway after Billy Porter withdrew from the production due to illness.

It’s the jam-packed 2025 fall preview special of The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and b…

Perhaps no director has made a more profound impact on Broadway and West End stages in recent years than Jamie Lloyd. After astounding audiences with his take on Sunset Boulevard (Tony winner for Best Revival o…

As new theater season begins, star-driven vehicles jockey for early positioning.

The Toronto Theatre Review: Coal Mine Theatre’s Waiting for Godot By Ross The pointlessly profound point of En attendant Godot or Waiting for Godot, the much-admired absurdist play by Samuel Beckett (Endgame)…

In one of the most buzzed-about productions of the Broadway season, former Bill & Ted actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter unite once again in "Waiting for Godot."

Brandon J. Dirden talks all things Waiting For Godot For Theatrely's 2025 Fall Preview

Broadway box office surged last week as some big name stars arrived – and in one case, returned – to New York stages: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter sold out their first preview of Waiting For Godot, and orig…

'Waiting for Godot,' starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, also commanded the highest average ticket price in the industry as it began performances.