Bill & Ted stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to reunite for a Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in autumn 2025.
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Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the new production will see Reeves play Estragon to Winter’s Vladimir at an ATG theatre that is yet to be announced.
In a joint statement (via Deadline), Reeves and Winter said: “We’re incredibly excited to be on stage together and work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favourite plays.”
Lloyd said: “It is a real honour to be collaborating with the brilliant Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Samuel Beckett’s sublime masterpiece — one of the greatest plays of all time.”
Further information about Waiting for Godot including the theatre, production dates, additional casting and creative team will be announced in the coming months.
Reeves and Winter, who have been friends for 35 years, played the title characters in the 1989 comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, as well as its 1991 and 2020 sequels.
Waiting for Godot will mark Reeves’ Broadway debut, while Winter appeared on Broadway in the 1979 production of Peter Pan, playing John Darling opposite Sandy Duncan. He also played Louis Leonowen’s in The King & I starring Yul Brynner in 1977-78.
In other news, Reeves recently spoke out about sustaining a brutal kneecap injury while filming Aziz Ansari’s forthcoming comedy Good Fortune, saying: “It cracked like a potato chip.”
Reeves plays the lead in the upcoming film, also starring Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen and Keke Palmer. Plot details have been kept under wraps and a release date has not yet been announced.
He was spotted walking with crutches and an ice pack wrapped to his left knee earlier this year. Ansari later said that Reeves fractured his kneecap after tripping on a rug in his trailer.
In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Reeves explained the whole story.
“I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we were in a cold plunge,” he recalled. “I was loving it, I was standing there, and we finish the scene, and you know when you’re cold and you’re [shuffling]? I had a bathing suit and a towel, and you put it over your head and you do the cold shuffle?
“I’m doing the cold shuffle in this room that had protective carpets down and then, just here, there was like a little pocket, and my foot got caught in the pocket in the shuffle, and then I went [down], but [my knee] didn’t follow.
He continued: “And then, in slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but then my knee failed because it’s got some stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella – kneecap – cracked like a potato chip.”
Though Reeves initially thought he was fine, he realised something was wrong when “my knee was blowing up.”
However, he said in response to a question by Colbert that it wasn’t the worst thing that has ever happened to him. “No, the two-level fusion of my spine was.”
Elsewhere, Reeves recently revealed that he finds himself thinking about death a lot as he edges closer to his 60th birthday.