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Posted: 2024-08-01T20:23:22Z | Updated: 2024-08-01T20:23:22Z

NEW YORK (AP) Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who played a pair of extraordinary slackers in three Bill & Ted films, are reuniting on Broadway for a revival of the brainy, existential classic Waiting for Godot.

The play is planned for the fall of 2025 under the direction of Jamie Lloyd, a four-time Tony nominee set to direct a revival later this year of Sunset Boulevard.

Samuel Becketts pioneering play centers on two tramps, Estragon and Vladimir, who are awaiting the arrival of the mysterious title character, if he ever shows up. It is filled with vaudevillian high jinks that mask increasingly agitated desperation.

Reeves will play Estragon and Winter will play Vladimir.

The play was first performed on Broadway in 1956 and has been revived three times since, most recently in 2013 with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

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After Bill & Ted, Reeves would go on to star in the Matrix and John Wick franchises. He will be making his Broadway debut with Godot. Winter has appeared on Broadway twice before in the 1970s in musical revivals of The King and I and Peter Pan.

In other theater news, Adam Driver will star in a new production of Kenneth Lonergans Hold on to Me Darling this fall off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

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