Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

In this 2013 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Christopher Durang takes characters and themes from Chekhov, pours them into a blender, and serves them up dry as only this master of comedy can. Classic Chekhovian themes of loss and longing are given utterly hilarious (and occasionally touching) twists. Against the bucolic plague of a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, the stage is set for an absurd weekend of angst, hilarity, and global warming.

“I can imagine many satisfied patrons leave the theater muttering, ‘Now if only real Chekhov plays were this funny, maybe I wouldn’t keep falling asleep.’”—The New York Times