The word tête-à-tête has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 23 in “Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway” by Salamishah Tillet:

“Your play makes ‘Waiting for Godot’ seem light,” I said, hesitantly, to the playwright Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, whose “Pass Over” was the first play to open on Broadway in over a year.

Without a second of doubt, Nwandu replied, “‘Godot’ is light.”

So began our tête-à-tête, a lively exchange about our first encounters with that existential work by Beckett, Nwandu’s influence for her “Godot”-inspired play and her decision to change the play’s ending as it headed to Broadway.

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