Hudson Theatre
Hudson Theatre

Hudson Theatre

  • Theater
  • Midtown West
  • price 4 of 4
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Time Out says

Built in 1903, this jewel-box theater began as a playhouse, then became a television studio in the 1950s (for Steve Allen's Tonight Show, among other programs). Recently restored to its former splendor, the space now serves as a glamorous backdrop for special events and corporate dinners.

Details

Address
141 W 44th St
New York
Cross street:
at Broadway
Transport:
Subway: N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Sq
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Waiting for Godot

3 out of 5 stars
Broadway review by Adam Feldman  In the 1989 movie Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter played a pair of dim teenage rockers who traveled through centuries and around the world and even—in the film’s 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey—beyond this mortal coil. So there’s a satisfying snap to the joke of casting them, in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, as the long-suffering tramps Estragon and Vladimir, two of the most immobile characters in world drama. Eternally, it seems, they await a mystery man who never appears, and yet they never learn; they are locked in a cycle of forgetting and resetting. “Well, shall we go?” says Reeves’s Estragon. “Yes, let’s go,” replies Winter’s Vladimir. But Beckett’s famous stage direction keeps them in their place: “They do not move.”  This casting is more than just a stunt, though; the nostalgic affection that the audience holds for Reeves and Winter has certain salutary effects. “Together again at last! We have to celebrate this,” says Vladimir at the top of the play; the audience is there for the reunion party, and it arrives with the gift of a prior sense of these two men as friends. When they mention having known each other “a million years ago, in the nineties,” the line hits differently than it did when the play made its Broadway debut in 1956; when they embrace, it has an extra level of sweetness. They have history with each other, and with us.  Waiting for Godot |...
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