Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

by Durang, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780802122384
• ISBN10: 0802122388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-13
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Winner of the 2013 Tony Award® 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®, 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!

Author Biography

Christopher Durang is the author of the Tony Award nominee A History of the American Film, the Obie award-winning Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie Award and Dramastists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award), and Miss Witherspoon (Pulitzer Prize finalist). Along with Marsha Norman, Durang is the cochair of the playwrights program at the drama division of the Julliard School. Durang won the Harvard Arts Medal, the Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, and was presented with the very first Luminary Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards.