But "Godot" is, perhaps, not so much funny as absurd. As in "theater of the absurd," the term coined by critic Martin Esslin in 1960 to peg writers like Beckett and Ionesco — whose nonsense plays were ...
As the play returns to Broadway, Keanu Reeves, John Goodman, Wendell Pierce, Nathan Lane and more share the meaning they find in the impenetrable masterpiece.