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Waiting for Godot

First Preview: Nov 4, 2023
Opening Date: Nov 14, 2023
Closing Date: Dec 23, 2023
Running Time: 02:45
Waiting for Godot

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Playing @
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place, 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 Theatre for a New Audience 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.
Off BroadwayPlay - ComedyPlay - Drama
Show Notes: One intermission

Cast
  • Michael Shannon
  • Paul Sparks
  • Jeffrey Biehl & Ajay Naidu

Written By
  • Samuel Beckett

Director
  • Arin Arbus

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  • Assisted Listening System

    Assistive Listening Devices that transmit sound via headsets are available for all performances. For an Assistive Listening Device, please visit the box office before entering the mainstage theatre.
  • Restroom

    Gender diversity is welcome at Theatre for a New Audience. All are welcome to use the restroom that best fits their identity. In addition to men’s and women’s restrooms on the first floor, there is a gender neutral single-stall private restroom on the mezzanine level (third floor).
  • Wheelchair Info

    Access for wheelchair users and individuals with limited mobility is available on all floors of Polonsky Shakespeare Center. For questions about accessible seating, please email tickets@tfana.org or call 212-229-2819 x10

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