Forget the Circle K— strange things are afoot at the Hudson Theatre. It's a simple enough tale to summarize: It begins on a country road, in the shadow of a large tree, where Estragon (Reeves, making ...

This post was updated Dec. 1 at 9:52 p.m. “Waiting for Godot” gives exactly what it promises, for better or worse. Famously described as “a play in which nothing happens,” Samuel Beckett’s 1952 ...

Alex Winter, Michael Patrick Thornton, Brandon J. Dirden, and Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot. Photo: Andy Henderson Alex Winter, Michael Patrick Thornton, Brandon J. Dirden, and Keanu Reeves in ...

Rainn Wilson is Vladimir, and Aasif Mandvi is Estragon. The two characters find themselves in a perpetual cycle of waiting for the elusive stranger Godot. (Jeff Lorch) Irish critic Vivian Mercier ...

It takes great actors to make Samuel Beckett’s modernist comedy masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, work. As the character Estragon exclaims toward the play, “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The latest starry revival of Samuel Beckett’s play is on Broadway, and one thing is certain: Whatever you call its elusive character, he doesn’t come.