Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Take the Broadway Stage in WAITING FOR GODOT

Reeves and Winter’s Waiting for Godot opened for previews at New York’s Hudson Theater on Broadway this week. As Reeves told NPR, the idea for the production started months ago when he was trying to figure out how he could work with his longtime friend again. The two had reunited for 2020’s Bill & Ted Face the Music. The most excellent film showed they hadn’t lost any of their chemistry even after 30 years. Still, a history-hopping comedy about two pleasant dorks is a far cry from a Broadway play partially titled A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. So how did Reeves land on that of all things? He said teaming up for Samuel Beckett’s famous play simply “struck” him.

While Waiting for Godot fans (:raises hand:) can see how and why it’s an inspired choice for the two actors, it wasn’t an obvious one for Reeves. Unlike Winter, the show marks his Broadway debut. He said taking the world’s most famous stage has filled him with “terror, anxiety, hope.”

A Broadway debut does sound most intimidating. But we’re sure he’s got this. Forget all of Reeves’ other famous roles. Bill and Ted faced much worse situations in countless centuries.

If you want to see them take on this new challenge, though, don’t wait around. Reeves and Winter’s Waiting for Godot officially opens on September 28 and will run until January 4, 2026.