by Christopher Durang (Author)
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award(R) for Best Play
Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Play
Winner of the Drama League Award for Best Production of a Play
Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Play
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production
Winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play
Nominated for six Tony Awards(R), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike. A weekend of rivalry, regret, and raucousness begins!
Format: Paperback
Pages: 90
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 19 Sep 2013
ISBN 10: 0802122388
ISBN 13: 9780802122384
Hugely entertaining . . . few contemporary playwrights have proven as deft as Durang as mining both the absurdity and the dangers of human folly. . . . in its own deliciously madcap way, the new work offers some keen insights into the challenges and agonies of 21st-century life. --USA Today
We get too few comedies on Broadway, much less ones with the breezy wit and satirical bite of this one. --Time Out
A sublime state of hilarity! --New York Magazine
A wild, winning ride! Hugely entertaining! --USA Today
Entirely, indisputably, oh-no-he-didn't Durang. --Entertainment Weekly
The funniest show in town! --Bloomberg
Riotous! The kind of full-on comedy that's rare on Broadway. It makes you laugh out loud, and repeatedly at that! --New York Post
Nothing short of hilarious! It leaves the audience in tears of laughter! --The Huffington Post
Hilarious with an inspired cast! --Variety
One of the funniest comedies Broadway has seen in seasons. --Newsday
A comic tour de force. --The Village Voice