NO MAN'S LAND & WAITING FOR GODOT's Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Sean Mathias Set for NPR's WEEKEND EDITION this Sunday

Tune in to hear Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, who star in Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND and Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, and director Sean Mathias on NPR's "Weekend Edition" this Sunday, November 24. McKellen, Stewart and Mathias talk with NPR's Jeff Lunden about bringing these two fascinating plays to Broadway in repertory. "Weekend Edition" airs nationally between 8am and 10am Eastern (on WNYC Radio in the New York area).

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star with Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley in NO MAN'S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT directed by Sean Mathias. This limited engagement repertory season is now in previews (performances began Saturday, October 26) in advance of the official opening on Sunday, November 24, 2013 at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) where it will run through March 2 only. For performance schedule and more information, visit TwoPlaysInRep.com.

Rush tickets are available during the run of the limited repertory season, including on opening Sunday, November 24 for both plays. The front row of the orchestra and other locations are available exclusively to rush ticket buyers. Tickets are available for purchase beginning at 10am daily (and 12pm on Sundays) for $30.00 (including facility fee), two tickets maximum per person, on the day of the performance, subject to availability. Tickets must be purchased in person at the Cort Theatre box office.

NO MAN'S LAND played a critically acclaimed run at Berkeley Repertory Theatre this past August.

Ian McKellen won the Tony Award for his performance in Amadeus in 1981. Patrick Stewart first appeared on Broadway in Peter Brook's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's 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 Stoppard's Every Good Boy Deserves 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 Crudup in The Elephant Man in 2002.

In NO MAN'S 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.

Alternating in the role of 'The Boy' in WAITING FOR GODOT are Colin Critchley and Aidan Gemme.

Designs for the productions include sets and costumes by Stephen Brimson Lewis (twice Tony-nominated for Indiscretions), lighting by Peter Kaczorowski (a Tony Award winner for Contact and The Producers) sound and music by Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (Breakfast At Tiffany's), projections by Zachary Borovay (Ann) and hair and make-up by Tom Watson (The Assembled Parties).

The Cort Theatre Box Office hours are Monday through Saturday 10am to 8:30pm and Sundays from 12:00pm to 6:00pm.

Tickets to the limited engagement repertory are now on sale to the general public through Telecharge at www.telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200. Contact Telecharge Groups at (212) 232-6262 for group sales prices and information.

Photo by Joan Marcus