Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star in Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot, the ultimate play about nothing and everything. The story follows two guys hanging around, talking, waiting, and somehow it becomes one of the funniest, strangest, most moving nights you'll ever witness. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning genius behind Sunset Blvd., A Doll's House and Betrayal, this fresh take on Beckett's "tragicomedy" leans into the absurd, asking all of life's biggest questions- and refusing to answer any of them. But what did the critics think?

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Critic Reviews For Waiting For Godot

"Their finely tuned performances are unshowy and completely in service of the production. They're neither vaudevillians clowning for our enjoyment nor thespians hamming up each ponderous line. Reeves and Winters' work is quiet and grounded entirely in their genuine chemistry. When they share a quick hug at the top of Act 2, after a whole day of waiting has come and gone fruitlessly, it reveals a profound knowledge that they can find comfort in each other." - Theatreley

"Neither one of them is reinventing the wheel, and neither is Lloyd. Despite the absence of a tree - or maybe they're inside the tree? - it's a relatively straightforward Waiting for Godot that's performed at an impressive clip and mostly lands the important beats." - Theatremania

"As for the acting, there's little doubt that Winter is the most natural (and more experienced) stage actor of the two, more versatile and, when necessary, capable to drawing real pathos from this grim, gorgeous work of art. You believe his every changing mood. Reeves, as they say, is Reeves, an exceedingly charming actor who projects more than he acts but always seems to have full control of an audiences' attention (and affection). Yes, even when he seems to be trying too hard to be stentorian or angry or carrying out a bit of slapstick tantrum, he has us rooting for him." - Deadline

"This production isn't exactly cracking the material open in any new way, but soars in one particular aspect: the friendship between its leads. Reeves and Winter are old friends playing old friends and their dynamic oozes fondness and longfelt frustration. The love and safety that Didi and Gogo find in one another is so endearing." - Entertainment Weekly

"The "Matrix" actor suffers beautifully in his Broadway debut, although it's the revelatory Winter who will haunt you long after the curtain falls. As the more intellectual and empathetic Vladimir, Winter achingly conveys his hopeful optimism and crippling realization that Godot, in fact, may never arrive. His crushing final monologue, in which Vladimir confronts his own nihilism, is as potent as anything you're bound to see on Broadway this year." - USA Today

"Broadway rookie Reeves (The Matrix, John Wick) shelves his surfer-dude charm to evoke melancholy as a man motoring on anxiety. He gamely throws himself around the set like a rag doll. Winter, who acted on Broadway as a kid in Peter Pan and The King and I, brings an impressive gravity as the deep-thinking Didi, who's prone to contemplative dives." - New York Theatre Guide

"It's an interesting evening, this "Waiting for Godot," spent in the company of very capable actors, for sure. Lloyd certainly has blown some cobwebs off a play that long has confounded anyone who has tried to sell it to regular folks." - New York Daily News