Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Tease Upcoming Reunion on Broadway Stage: 'It's Very, Very Personal'

Published: June 8, 2025

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunited at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, where they spoke with PEOPLE about their upcoming Broadway reunion. The actors and longtime friends are set to star in an upcoming revival of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which Winter calls a "very personal" play. Reeves and Winter first starred together in 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and have remained friends across 35 years and two sequels.

Reeves, 60, and Winter, 59, matched in classic black tuxedo looks. The Matrix star put a twist on his ensemble by adding a white handkerchief in the suit pocket. He also cuffed his blazer sleeves to show the white of his shirt sleeves.

Winter tells PEOPLE that he and Reeves "wanted to work together" again after their famous Bill & Ted movies, and have "known each other a very long time" — fitting for "a play about two people who have known each other a very long time. ... And Keanu had this crazy, inspired idea that suddenly turned into reality, for both of us."

As for what fans can expect, Winter adds, "I think every time the play is done, it's different, because of who's playing it. It's very, very personal, and so we're bringing ourselves to it."

Waiting for Godot will begin preview performances at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on Sept. 13, ahead of an official opening on Sept. 28. The limited-engagement production is currently scheduled through Jan. 4, 2026.

For Reeves' Broadway debut, the John Wick actor will play Estragon. Winter, who appeared in Broadway's 1977 production of The King and I and 1979's Peter Pan, plays Vladimir in the acclaimed existential work.

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PEOPLE debuted a video conversation with director Jamie Lloyd on April 14 about the upcoming production, in which the longtime pals — who first worked together on 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — explained how they'll naturally bring their offstage bond to their roles.

"It's like being in a band together. We kind of know each other's rhythms," Winter shared in the video. "Being able to bring that into, onto a stage, that's sort of our fundamental. That's in our bones away."

"The films that we did together, the Bill & Ted films, the language in those films had the architecture and their rhythms," added Reeves. "Even from early days, we approached them theatrically or even commedia dell'arte: 'Okay, I do something, you do something, I get the ball, you get the ball.' "

"That's why, in the audition, we were so vibed," Winter recalled of himself and Reeves. "Because you didn't get that from other actors so much."

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Reeves and Winter became close while filming Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, a sci-fi comedy that follows time-traveling friends who visit historical figures for their history presentation.

In 1991 and 2020, they reprised their roles as Ted Logan and Bill Preston for a second and third installment of the cult-classic series.