Here’s some totally awesome news for you: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of Bill & Ted fame are heading to Broadway to act in a rendition of Waiting for Godot. The play will be directed by Jamie Lloyd and will premiere sometime in fall 2025.
The idea for the two actors and friends to take on Godot, much like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen did in 2013, was apparently Reeves’ idea.
It was an idea, however, that Winter and Lloyd immediately embraced. “Their instant chemistry and their shorthand and their friendship is going to be so valuable,” Lloyd said of Reeves and Winter in an interview with The New York Times. “This is a very deeply complex play, as we all know, but it’s also a very funny play, and they’re very witty people and their shared sense of humor in those movies and in real life is going to be very beneficial to the production.”
Reeves will play Estragon and Winter will play Vladimir in the play by Samuel Beckett. “Those characters take solace in their companionship as they stumble toward the void,” Lloyd told The New York Times, adding, “that’s going to be the central thesis of the production, with Keanu and Alex’s own friendship.”
“We’re incredibly excited to be on stage together and work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favorite plays,” Reeves and Winter added in a joint statement.
No news yet on the specific premiere date for the production other than fall 2025. It will play at one of the seven Broadway theaters owned by Lloyd’s company, ATG Productions. To keep apprised of developments, you can sign up for updates here.
