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Rainn Wilson is currently starring in a Los Angeles production of the classic play Waiting for Godot and he’s explaining the show’s significance to his life.

The former The Office actor is starring alongside Evil‘s Aasif Mandvi in the Geffen Playhouse’s production. They celebrated opening night on Thursday (November 14) and posed on the red carpet alongside co-stars Jack McSherry, Lincoln Bonilla, Adam Stein and Conor Lovett.

Also at opening night were director Judy Hegarty Lovett, Geffen artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Geffen CEO/Executive Director Gil Cates Jr.

In an interview with THR, Rainn talked about the first time he encountered the play.

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Rainn revealed he did a scene for the play while studying at University of Washington. He performed the scene with then-classmates Holiday Reinhorn, who is now his wife.

“It’s always held a special place in my heart,...

During the 1953 world premiere of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, at Paris’ Théâtre de Babylone, the curtain came down about 40 minutes into the first act as audience members whistled and hooted derisively. While the critics were accepting of the play, it presold few tickets for the American debut tour three years later in Washington and Philadelphia, prompting a move to Miami’s Coconut Grove Playhouse for a two-week run starring Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell. Promoted as “the laugh sensation of two continents,” it was greeted by vacationers with bafflement and described as a play where nothing happens. The reaction was so predictable that cabbies waited outside the theater for early exiters. Not surprisingly, the New York engagement was canceled.

“Nothing happens, that’s the thing. It’ll be interesting to see, when we put this up in front of an audience for the first time, how they respond.

That old actor’s adage “Break a leg” is not supposed to be taken literally. But that message apparently didn’t make it to Michael McKean, the Laverne & Shirley and This is Spinal Tap alum now starring in the hit Broadway revival Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. The actor was hospitalized Tuesday with a broken leg after being struck by a car in New York City; James Lecesne will be playing his role as a presidential campaign manager for the foreseeable future.

Otherwise, it was relatively quiet on the theater scene, though L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse announced that...

Awkward, puzzled, and slightly amused, Conor Lovett shuffles onto the stage, addressing the audience. "I'm not from here," he says and seems to smile. "I never will be, I guess." Thus begins Will Eno's newest solo play, exploring connection, disconnection, and the meaning of "home." "Title and Deed," now running at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is profoundly Beckettian, not unlike Eno's previous work, "Middletown" and, especially, "Thom Pain (based on nothing)."Eno wrote the piece for Lovett and Lovett's wife, director Judy Hegarty Lovett. They're Irish-born theater artists who specialize in monologues by Samuel Beckett and other one-man shows with existential themes. Under the auspices of their company, Gare St. Lazare Players, they've presented productions in every continent, short of Antarctica.How did Will Eno come to write "Title and Deed" for you?Conor Lovett: He saw me in Beckett's "The End," which Judy directed and he's seen three or four of.

Signature Theatre presents the Us premiere of Title And Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run through June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Companys new home The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be 25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access.BroadwayWorld brings you performance highlights below...

Signature Theatre presents the Us premiere of Title And Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run through June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Companys new home The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be 25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access.BroadwayWorld brings you production highlights below...

Signature Theatre presents the Us premiere of Title And Deed, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run May 8 June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Companys new home The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be 25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative A Generation of Access.BroadwayWorld brings you production shots below...