In 2005, Lane rejoined Broderick for a successful limited run of "The Odd Couple". In 2006, he took on a primarily dramatic role in a revival of Simon Gray's "Butley", having played the role to great success at The Huntington Theater in Boston in 2003. He and Broderick received adjacent stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a joint ceremony on January 9, 2006, and were immortalized in wax as Max and Leo at Madame Tussauds Museum in New York City on January 16, 2009. In 2008, he played the President of the United States in the David Mamet political satire, "November", directed by Joe Mantello. This was followed by the critically acclaimed 2009 revival of "Waiting for Godot" (Outer Critics Circle nomination) in which he played Estragon opposite Bill Irwin's Vladimir. He was a 2008 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.