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Billy Crudup's Take On Two Plays In Rep

    There is an astoundingly riveting production of Samuel Becket’s existential absurdist classic, Waiting for Godot running at The CortTheatre on West 48th Street in New York City. That is, on the nights that an unbelievably tense and masterful production of Harold Pinter’sNo Man’s Landisn’t running in that same space. 

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Shuler Hensley, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup, and Ian McKellen in "Waiting for Godot"

  Sean Mathias directs the same cast of four in the two plays which began previews on Broadway in October of last year. The run has been extended twice and will end on March 30th. In performances that have critics breaking out the most effusive and glowing adjectives in praise of craft and entertainment - Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are joined by Schuler Hensley and Billy Crudup. (Godot also features two young actors alternating the role of “Boy” - Colin Critchley and Adian Gemme).

Billy Crudup plays Foster, a cocksure aggravated type in No Man’s Land and Lucky - a servant with a depleted soul in Waiting for Godot.

Credit Joan Marcus
Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Shuler Hensley, and Billy Crudup in "No Man's Land"

Crudup’s previous Broadway credits include Arcadia, Bus Stop, The Three Sisters, The Elephant Man, The Pillowman, and The Coast of Utopia - for which he earned a Tony Award in 2007. His film credits include Almost Famous, Big Fish, Watchmen, Public Enemies, and Eat Pray Love.

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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