Waiting for Godot Revival
Waiting for Godot - 2023 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
Theatre for a New Audience
262 Ashland Pl Brooklyn, NY 11217
Since their first appearance in a tiny Paris theatre in 1953, Samuel Beckett’s iconic down-and- outs Vladimir and Estragon have rarely been off the stage. Nearly every evening, somewhere on the globe, they show up for their dubious appointment with a savior named Godot who never comes, filling time with games and musing aphoristically on existence. Hilarious and heartbreaking, Waiting for Godot is the modern theatre’s indispensable document of rootlessness, uncertainty, and perpetually postponed deliverance. Godot will be directed by Arin Arbus (Resident Director, TFANA) whose critically acclaimed productions for the company include her OBIE Award-winning staging of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. This production will reunite actors Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks, who last worked together for TFANA in Ionesco’s The Killer, directed by Darko Tresnjak in 2014.
Waiting for Godot - 2023 - Off-Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Waiting for Godot
‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Old Friends Falling in and Out of Sync
5 / 10
I have no idea whether I caught the show on an off night, or if after merely a week of previews the production was still somewhat underbaked. But the inertness of Act I gave way to a high-energy Act II — rather denting the idea that one day in the nearly featureless void of Didi and Gogo’s existence is practically indistinguishable from another, but thank goodness anyway.
WAITING FOR GODOT: BECKETT’S CLASSIC PLAY REVIVED AND, SPOILER ALERT, HE STILL DOESN’T ARRIVE
8 / 10
Director Arin Arbus has staged a relatively faithful and straightforward rendition, which is probably for the best since the playwright’s estate tends to take a dim view of any radical reinterpretations. A bare stage with the familiar leafless tree provides the setting, although it here takes the form of a long catwalk-like strip made to look like a desolate highway, with a painted line down the center. As we enter the theater, Shannon’s Estragon sits onstage, doing, what else, waiting. Except in this case for the show to begin.
Waiting for Godot FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Waiting for Godot History
Other Productions of Waiting for Godot
| 1956 | Broadway |
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| 1957 | Broadway |
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| 1971 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1981 | Off-Broadway |
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| 1988 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2005 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2006 | Off-Broadway |
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| 2009 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
| 2010 | West End |
Return Engagement [West End] West End |
| 2013 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2015 | Off-Broadway |
Gare St Lazare Ireland and Dublin Theatre Festival Production Off-Broadway |
| 2017 | West End |
Arts Theatre Revival West End |
| 2021 | Off-Broadway |
TFANA's Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2023 | Off-Broadway |
Theatre for a New Audience Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
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| 2025 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
Waiting for Godot - 2023 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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| 2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | Paul Sparks |
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