CIRCA THEATRE PRESENTS
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
By Christopher Durang
Directed by Susan Wilson
***** TONY AWARD® – Best Play
***** NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE – Best Play
***** the DRAMA DESK – Best Play
***** the DRAMA LEAGUE – Best Play
***** the OUTER CRITICS’ CIRCLE – Best Play
Chekhov is alive and well in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where adult siblings Vanya and Sonia reside in their old family
home, mourning their lost dreams and missed opportunities.
When their often-wrong, fortune-telling maid warns of impending dangers, and their movie star sister, Masha, arrives
unexpectedly with young, sexy, boy toy, Spike, the family is launched into a rollicking weekend of one-upmanship,
exposed nerves, and a lot of broken mugs! Wit and absurdity blends Chekhov’s famous ennui with the modern-day toils and
troubles of celebrity, social networking, and age. With an outstanding cast including Erina Daniels, Rachel Henry, Emma
Kinane, Simon Leary, Harriet Prebble and Chapman Tripp award winner, Gavin Rutherford, this laugh-out- loud comedy will
tickle your funny bone and stimulate your mind.
Original cast members included Sigourney
Weaver (Masha) and David Hyde Pierce (Vanya).
“We get too few comedies on Broadway, much less ones with the breezy wit and satirical bite of the one. Like the play’s
characters, I’M SO HAPPY THAT I CAN’T STOP COMPLAINING!”
- Time Out, NY
“It leaves the audience in tears of laughter!”
- The Huffington Post
“The loudest laughter heard on Broadway in
many years! The audience roars with glee
ends