Waiting For Godot, Beckett revival to star Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin, Anthony Page to direct

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that Tony award winners Bill Irwin as 'Vladimir' and Nathan Lane as 'Estragon' will star in a new Broadway production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and directed by Tony award winner Anthony Page.

Waiting for Godot will play a limited engagement at Studio 54, where it will open on 30 Apr 2008, following previews from 10 Apr 2008.

Bob Fosse�s Dancin� previously announced for May 2009 will now be part of the 2009-2010 Roundabout season.

Additional cast members and the design team for Waiting for Godot will be announced shortly.

Waiting for Godot's story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone � or something � named Godot. Vladimir (Bill Irwin) and Estragon (Nathan Lane) wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind�s inexhaustible search for meaning.

Tony Award winner Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) returns to Roundabout Theatre Company for the first time since directing and starring in his off-Broadway adaptation of 'Scapin' in 1997 and directing George Feydeau�s 'A Flea in Her Ear' in 1998, both at the Laura Pels Theatre.

Two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) returns to Roundabout following the production of 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' (2000) at the American Airlines Theatre. Lane starred on Broadway earlier this year as 'President Charles Smith' in Mamet's political comedy 'November.'

Tony Award-winning director Anthony Page (A Doll's House) most recently directed Bill Irwin in his Tony Award-winning performance of 'Who�s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and returns to Roundabout having directed 'Inadmissible Evidence' on Broadway in 1981 and The Caretaker off-Broadway in 1982.

A cornerstone of twentieth century theatre, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett�s first professionally produced play. It premiered in Paris in 1953 and premiered on Broadway in 1956 at the John Golden Theatre. Beckett�s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe.

Tickets for Waiting for Godot will go on sale in the winter of 2009.