WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#1
Posted: 9/12/25 at 12:00am
Call it “Bill and Ted’s Existential Adventure.”
The wait is over: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter come to Broadway in a fourth revival of Waiting for Godot, directed by Jamie Lloyd. Rounding out the cast of Samuel Beckett’s iconic tragicomedy are Michael Patrick Thornton, Brandon J. Dirden, Zaynn Arora, and Eric Williams. Previews start tomorrow (September 13) before a September 28 official opening at the Hudson Theatre; the limited run concludes on January 4.
“Celebrated actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are real-life friends who will be starring on Broadway as two friends searching for meaning in an absurd world. Waiting for Godot is the greatest play ever written about nothing. Nothing and everything. But mostly nothing. Seriously, nothing happens.”
Who’s seeing this one?!
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#2
Posted: 9/13/25 at 12:09pm
Looks like Jesse Aaronson (LEOPOLDSTADT) is the standby for Winter and Thornton, and Franklin Bonjio (one of Arian Moayed’s understudies in A DOLL’S HOUSE) will cover Reeves and Dirden.
Also, TodayTix says 2:15 runtime, including a 15-minute intermission.
Can’t wait to hear about tonight and what new tricks Lloyd has up his sleeve!
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#4
Posted: 9/13/25 at 4:37pm
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#5
Posted: 9/13/25 at 11:42pm
How was it???
Also, who played the little boy tonight, Zaynn or Eric?
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#6
Posted: 9/14/25 at 12:13am
That set looks incredible…
and Beckett would hate it?
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#7
Posted: 9/14/25 at 12:52am
Early reports say it does have Keanu in his underwear, so typical Jamie Lloyd.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/30/17
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#8
Posted: 9/14/25 at 12:59am
He's in his boxer briefs for a very short time. Don't worry.
The set is gorgeous. Thank goodness there is no single tree.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#9
Posted: 9/14/25 at 2:14am
Love the optical illusion of that set and lighting.
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#10
Posted: 9/14/25 at 2:26am
That set piece looks stunning.
Can we also be thankful for a simple t shirt design, just the play’s logo nothing over the top. Simple and perfect!
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#11
Posted: 9/14/25 at 12:43pm
thirtythirtyninety said: "That set looks incredible…
and Beckett would hate it?"
Not only that, but I'm surprised the estate allowed it! Usually the tree is mandatory.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#12
Posted: 9/14/25 at 12:49pm
BJR said: "Not only that, but I'm surprised the estate allowed it! Usually the tree is mandatory."
The estate seemed asleep at the wheel on this one, given the teeny tiny font size of Beckett's name in the early advertising materials for the show...it's custom for the author's name to be no smaller than the director. (That now seems to have been resolved.)
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#13
Posted: 9/14/25 at 12:54pm
Considering how hard they've come down on much less notable productions in the past, perhaps they just see this as too high-profile and lucrative a production to be so strict with?
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#14
Posted: 9/14/25 at 2:01pm
Quite possibly. But famously Maggie Smith and Judi Dench wanted to do it years back but weren’t allowed because it has to be men. I imagine that would’ve been a huge hit and quite profitable.
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#15
Posted: 9/14/25 at 5:44pm
Okay hear me out....I think the set itself is the tree. The tunnel, made out of wood, is evocative (deliberately?) of a cross section of a tree trunk.
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#16
Posted: 9/14/25 at 5:51pm
Also, the text does actually call for Estragon's trousers to fall down in act two, so Reeves being in his underwear is, for once, entirely on Becket rather than on Lloyd
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#17
Posted: 9/14/25 at 6:01pm
ChairinMain said: "Okay hear me out....I think the set itself is the tree. The tunnel, made out of wood, is evocative (deliberately?) of a cross section of a tree trunk."
I wonder if it might also evoke the moon, as in "Two Men Contemplating the Moon"?
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#18
Posted: 9/14/25 at 6:28pm
ChairinMain said: "Also, the text does actually call for Estragon's trousers to fall down in act two, so Reeves being in his underwear is, for once, entirely on Becket rather than on Lloyd"
But having them be dark boxer briefs--pure Lloyd.
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#19
Posted: 9/14/25 at 6:49pm
John Adams said: "ChairinMain said: "Okay hear me out....I think the set itself is the tree. The tunnel, made out of wood, is evocative (deliberately?) of a cross section of a tree trunk."
I wonder if it might also evoke the moon, as in "Two Men Contemplating the Moon"?"
I also thought it was evocative of a large eye watching them.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#20
Posted: 9/14/25 at 7:39pm
Kad said: "I also thought it was evocative of a large eye watching them."
I was thinking about Beckett's connection with the painting as being the inspiration for the play, but I really like the idea of a watching eye, too.
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#21
Posted: 9/14/25 at 10:26pm
ChairinMain said: "Okay hear me out....I think the set itself is the tree. The tunnel, made out of wood, is evocative (deliberately?) of a cross section of a tree trunk."
I think that's exactly right. And a good guess what they told the estate!
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#22
Posted: 9/15/25 at 12:00am
That video of the bows, make it look like the set goes to the very front of the stage. I’m guessing if you’re on the side some of it might be hard to see.
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#23
Posted: 9/15/25 at 7:06am
This post on the UK board shares an image of a German production that used a sinkhole similar in shape if not spirit.
https://theatreboard.co.uk/post/607495
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#24
Posted: 9/15/25 at 7:16am
rosscoe(au) said: "That video of the bows, make it look like the set goes to the very front of the stage. I’m guessing if you’re on the side some of it might be hard to see."
WAITING FOR GODOT 2025 Previews#25
Posted: 9/15/25 at 8:49am
The last tour of Sunset Boulevard in the UK starting Ria Jones had her in blood at the end. I think Jamie Lloyd looks at previous productions for inspiration
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