Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to reunite on stage in a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The Broadway production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will see Reeves play Estragon to Winter’s Vladimir at an ATG theatre that has yet to be announced. Further details, including the theatre, production dates, additional casting, and creative team, will be announced in the coming months.
Reeves and Winter, who played the title characters in the 1989 comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, as well as its 1991 and 2020 sequels, have been friends for 35 years. Waiting for Godot will mark Reeves’ Broadway debut, while Winter appeared on Broadway in the 1979 production of Peter Pan, playing John Darling opposite Sandy Duncan. He also played Louis Leonowen’s in The King & I starring Yul Brynner in 1977-78.
In a joint statement to Deadline, Reeves and Winter expressed their excitement to be on stage together and work with Jamie Lloyd in one of their favorite plays. Lloyd said it is a real honour to be collaborating with the brilliant Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Samuel Beckett’s sublime masterpiece. Lloyd called it one of the greatest plays of all time.
Reeves recently sustained a brutal kneecap injury while filming Aziz Ansari’s forthcoming comedy Good Fortune. He explained the injury in an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Reeves said he was shuffling in a room with protective carpets when his foot got caught in a little pocket, and his knee followed, causing it to crack like a potato chip
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