Ian McKellen Done with Broadway After WAITING FOR GODOT and NO MAN'S LAND?

The Broadway repertory season of Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND and Samuel Beckett¹s Waiting for Godot opens this Sunday, November 24. The shows are led by Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup, Shuler Hensley and Ian McKellen, who recently revealed that this will likely be his last hurrah on Broadway.

He told Entertainment Weekly: "I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic. So if they decide to come see it, then you really have a good time. I think this will be my last outing to Broadway, probably, so I might as well go out with a bang doing two plays in wonderful company!"

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Ian McKellen won the Tony Award for his performance in Amadeus in 1981. Patrick Stewart first appeared on Broadway in Peter Brook¹s production of Shakespeare¹s A Midsummer Night¹s Dream in 1971 and won the Drama Desk Award for A Christmas Carol in 1992. McKellen and Stewart have appeared together on stage twice before ­ in the 2009 West End production of Waiting for Godot and in the 1977 premiere of Tom Stoppard¹s Every Good BoyDeserves Favour. Billy Crudup, won a Tony Award for The Coast of Utopia in 2007. Shuler Hensley won a Tony Award for Oklahoma! in 2002. Sean Mathias, Tony nominated for his direction of Indiscretions, directed Billy Crudupin The Elephant Man in 2002.

In NO MAN¹S LAND, two elderly writers, having met in a London pub, continue drinking and talking into the night. All might be well, until the return home of two younger men. Their relationships are exposed, with menace and hilarity, in one of Pinter's most entertaining plays.

In Waiting for Godot, two wanderers wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, who they hope will change their lives for the better. Instead, another couple of eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous.

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