Party on, dudes! Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to star together in a Broadway classic.
People Magazine dropped the news that the “Bill and Ted” stars will take on “Waiting For Godot.”
Be Excellent to Each Other
In a video conversation featuring both Reeves and Winter, director Jamie Lloyd spoke to the actors about putting on the show.
“You Face Timed me at some ungodly hour,” Winter recalls to Reeves, “With your face jammed into the camera and said ‘You, me, Gadot.’”
“There’s something about [playwright Samuel] Beckett that somehow speaks to the world outside the theater’s walls,” said Lloyd. “Beckett had this really incredible understanding of the human mind, he adds. “In terms of… filling the void.”
“If we’re searching for meaning, does that imply life is meaningless?” Lloyd posits about the theme of the play. “Certainly, it can feel senseless.”
“What I like about it is not how we fill that time in the face of that with all of our conflicts and disagreements but also our jokes and our games… and our companionship” Lloyd finishes.
Lloyd enjoys the idea of how the Reeves/Winter relationship mirrors that of Vladimir and Estragonm, the two main characters of the play waiting for the titular Gadot.
“…The language in [the ‘Bill and Ted’] films had the architecture and their rhythms,” Reeves said of the trilogy of movies that launched the two actors to stardom.
“And I think that even from early days, we approached them theatrically or even commedia dell’arte,” he adds, referring to he and Winter’s natural back and forth.
Most Triumphant
When asked why go for Broadway, Reeves lights up.
“For me, it’s been a childhood dream,” he says as Winter agrees. “I’ve never done it. In the past, my feelings being on the stage feels like home.”
While this is Reeves’ first time on Broadway, the actor did star as Hamlet in “Hamlet” during a 1995 production at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Canada’s Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Winter has appeared in two Broadway plays – “The King and I” and “Peter Pan” in 1977 to 1979 and 1979 to 1981 respectively. Plus, he also took part in 1981’s “Close of Play” for the American Premiere at the Manhattan Theater Club.
The Broadway revival of “Waiting For Godot” will launch preview showings at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre September 2025. It will officially launch in late September and run through January 2026.