WAITING FOR GODOT Rehearsals Kick Off at the Mark Taper Forum

Rehearsals have started for "Waiting for Godot," which opens March 21, 2012, at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum. The cast includes prominent Beckett actors Alan Mandell (who will play Estragon) and Barry McGovern (Vladimir), Academy Award-nominee James Cromwell (Pozzo), Hugo Armstrong (Lucky) and LJ Benet (Boy). Written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Michael Arabian, previews begin March 14; performances continue through April 22.

"Waiting for Godot" follows two days in the lives of a pair of characters, Estragon and Vladimir, whose apparent purpose in life is to wait by the side of the road for someone named Godot to arrive. This simple act, at once seemingly futile and hopeful, asks basic questions of human existence, why we are here and what is our ultimate destiny.