Waiting For Godot: John Goodman and David Strathairn join cast

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that John Goodman (Pozzo) and David Strathairn (Lucky) will join the previously announced Bill Irwin (Vladimir) and Nathan Lane (Estragon) 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.

The cast will also include Matthew Schechter (Boy).

The design team ieaturesncludes Santo Loquasto (Sets), Jane Greenwood (Costumes) and Peter Kaczorowski (Lights).

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.

John Goodman's Broadway credits are 'Loose Ends' (1979 - replacement) and 'Big River' (1985). Off-Broadway he has starred in Public Theater productions of 'Henry IV Part I,' 'The Skin of Our Teeth,' and 'The Seagull,' and in the National Actors Theatre's 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.' He will forever be known to TV audiances as 'Dan Conner' from the hit comedy series 'Roseanne,' for which he was nominated for seven Emmy Awards. His many film credits include: 'Speed Racer,' 'Evan Almighty' and 'The Flintstones,' to name but a few.

David Strathairn's Broadway credits: 'Einstein and the Polar Bear' (1981), 'The Three Sisters' (1997), 'Dance of Death' (2001) and 'Salome' (2003). He recently appeared off-Broadway as 'Cassius' in the Public's 'Conversations in Tusculum.' Strathairn was nominated for an Oscar for his role as 'Edward R. Murrow' in the film 'Good Night, and Good Luck.' His many film credits include: 'The Spiderwick Chronicles,' 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' 'The Miracle Worker' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

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 to the general public on 6 Feb 2009.

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