An unhappy family with Chekhovian undertones takes center stage in Bristol Riverside Theatre’s handsome production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Cameron Kelsall reviews.

The Sharon Playhouse will present a special one-night-only staged reading of Charles Busch’s cult camp classic Die Mommie Die! on Friday, September 12 at 7:00 p.m. in The Bobbie Olsen Theater. The benefit per…

During a recent episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the Oscar-winning host shared an exclusive clip of Robyn Hurder and the cast of Smash performing "Let's Be Bad," from the Broadway musical. Check it out now!…

She's a star! On a recent episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, Robyn Hurder and the cast of Broadway's Smash took the stage to perform the show's opening number, "Let Me Be Your Star." Watch it now! Directed by …

Tune in to The View next week to see a special performance from Broadway's Smash! Cast from the Tony-nominated Broadway musical will join the daytime talk show on Friday, May 16 from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT. The Vi…

Starring David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Sigourney Weaver, the Christopher Durang play went on to win the Best Play Tony Award.

By: David Sheward October 27, 2024: Two upcoming Broadway shows, Smash and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, have announced specific details on dates, theaters and cast members. Smash, the musical based on the…

Emmy winner Debra Messing (Will & Grace), Tony nominee Billy Magnussen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and Golden Globe nominee Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians) will star in the world premiere of the …

The company intends to resume performances Jan. 28 – The Second Girl at 7 PM and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at 2 PM and 7:30 PM. Playbill.com ...

Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Siblings Vanya (Ross Lehman) and Sonia (Janet Ulrich Brooks) have spent their adult years trapped in mundane lives at their family's cottage, caring for their ailing parents. Mea…

Special guests Steve Carell and William Jackson Harper of LCT's Uncle Vanya were also on hand for the gala celebration.

See photos from Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Lincoln Center Theater! Learn more about the event!

A little more from last night’s elegant and funny one night only performance for Lincoln Center Theater (1000 times better than that low class Met Gala). Sigourney Weaver was deftly funnier than ever as self-…

Wow! Tuesday night Lincoln Center Theater put on the kind of star studded event that was a throwback to the good old days. To raise money, LCT produced — in two days — a retro staging of Christopher Durang�…

Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Shalita Grant, and Genevieve Angelson are all performing at the Lincoln Center Theater gala.

Original cast members Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, and more will reunite for the one-night-only event.

The online ticket lottery for Lincoln Center Theater’s staged reading of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning play VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE is now open. Learn how to purchase tickets.

American playwright Christopher Durang has died at 75. He won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

His works include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,” “Baby with the Bathwater,” “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” “Betty’s Summer Vacation” and “Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christ…

Playwright Christopher Durang, a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with Miss Witherspoon, has died. He was 75. Dura…

Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

Christopher Durang, the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony-winning playwright of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, known for his darkly humorous treatment of taboo subjects, died at his home in Pipersville, PA…

In works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.

Christopher Durang, one of American’s most acclaimed and accomplished playwrights whose works like Beyond Therapy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and the Tony-winning Vanya and Sonia and Masha a…

The presentation of the Tony Award-winning Christopher Durang play will appear at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Bartlett Sher will direct a one-night-only staged reading of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Lincoln Center Theater, featuring original cast members.

Bartlett Sher will direct a staged reading of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning play VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, featuring original cast members. See who is starring and learn how to purchase t…

Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Shalita Grant, and Genevieve Angelson will all perform at the Lincoln Center Theater gala.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike   Reviewed by G. Bruce Smith Little Fish Theatre Through September 3 RECOMMENDED You don’t have to be familiar with Chekhov’s plays to enjoy the latest offering by Littl…

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By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a very funny work. That much has been clearly established in the decade since the ori…

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In the 1980s and ‘90s, Christopher Durang was at the peak of his popularity. He’d arrived at precisely the right time, when the world of American stage comedy desperately needed an heir to the rapidly decay…

Christopher Durang’s Tony-winning, Chekhov-riffing play is a long but worthwhile sit.

The new production will have you laughing while thinking of doom.

Durang is the author of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and The Marriage of Bette and Boo, among many other works.

Over his career, Tony Award winner and Pulitzer finalist Christopher Durang has been invited to countless productions of his works. The playwright, whose achievements include a 2013 Best Play Tony Award for his…

Singer, rapper, and writer Dessa has made a career of bucking genres and defying expectations—she's appeared on the Billboard charts, recorded with the GRAMMY-winning Minnesota Orchestra, contributed to The H…

I love the theaters on 45th Street. I've seen some of my favorite shows on that block. The Golden Theatre is probably the one of those that I have been in the fewest times, but those times have yielded some of…

By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang now playing at the Charing Cross Theatre. This post REVIEW: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and S…

A CHEKHQUERED RESPONSE          Vanya and Sonia are siblings – though she is adopted – and have led dull dutiful lives in a remote country house surrounded by cherry trees and an orchard,  funded by a…

★★★★ VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Comedy mines Chekhov for laughs and finds some rich seams  Super London debut for Russian-inspired Broadway comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike has tak…

Tony winner Walter Bobbie directs Christopher Durang's comedy at the Charing Cross Theatre.

Tony winner Walter Bobbie directs Christopher Durang's comedy at the Charing Cross Theatre.

The London debut of Christopher Durang's Tony-winning play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is back on. After being postponed from its originally scheduled premiere in March 2020 due to COVID-19, the product…

Tony winner Walter Bobbie will direct Christopher Durang's comedy at the Charing Cross Theatre.

It was a real honor to interview the one and only Marilu Henner, who has starred in over 50 films, seven Broadway shows and two hit classic sitcoms,Taxi and Evening Shade. She is a New York Times best selling a…

"One of the reasons why I was so excited about taking the position here, the leadership role at the YWCA, was because of my own personal and professional belief in eliminating racism and empowering women." — …

"I'm always excited by things that are pushing the boundaries of their own genres." —Lucia Shen The team moves the Fireside Chat under cover from rain as Sarah Rasmussen is joined by Lucia Shen, a local high…

"It's acting with a vision, and doing it with integrity." —Jon Lambert Sarah Rasmussen welcomes Jon Lambert, owner of the Princeton Record Exchange, for a Fireside Chat. Jon and Sarah discuss the development…

"You're not someone struggling with homelessness right now; you're an artist, you're a writer... and your story is really important and interesting." - Liza Peck Sarah Rasmussen is joined at the fireside by Li…

Join us for creative and engaging online classes for children, teens, and adults! Whether you're a playwright, actor, improviser, enthusiast, or just starting to explore theater, we have something for you. Th…

On the latest episode of Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal, Broadway.com's Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek catches up with Billy Magnussen. The actor, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2013 for his performa…

Tony nominee Billy Magnussen is getting at-home audiences glued to their screens in HBO Max's MADE FOR LOVE. He shared what it was like to watch himself in VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE for the first time…

 This Week in Broadway History: April 20 - 26 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  April 20, 2010: Pop-punk came to Broadway when Green Day's American Idiot opened its 422 performance run at the St. James Theatre. …

★★★★★ David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristine Nielsen in Christopher Durang's convulsively neo-Chekhovian Disneyish idyll The post Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: Outlandish Comedy Is a…

More Broadway streaming is coming your way! Lincoln Center Theater has launched its new Private Reels: From the LCT Archive series that will stream past productions, starting with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and …

The series of archival recordings, originally produced for promotional purposes, also includes The Wolves, Marys Seacole, and The Royale.

Theater enthusiasts know that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center houses a treasure trove of recordings of Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theater productions spanning back…

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that it will inaugurate PRIVATE REELS: FROM THE LCT ARCHIVES, streamed recordings of outstanding LCT productions in their entirety, as part of its LCT Spotlight Series. PRIV…

The archival recordings were originally produced for promotional purposes and will now be shown in their entirety.

The archival recordings were originally produced for promotional purposes and will now be shown in their entirety.

 Broadway Games: Which Leading Lady...? A. Laura Benanti      B. Victoria Clark     C. Patti LuPone D. Audra McDonald     E. Jessie Mueller      F. Donna Murphy     G. Kelli O'Hara     …

Broadway Games: Which Happened First? We made it through another week! Here's a new game to get your Broadway brain going! How To Play: Put each list in the order in which they occurred. 1.  In order by Mos…

One That Got Away: The Testament of Mary Sometimes Mike and I want to see shows for entirely different reasons. Such was the case for this month's One That Got Away.  It was the 2012-2013 Broadway season, an…

Producers have announced that the London premiere of Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning Best Play comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, due to start previews at Charing Cross Theatre on 21 March 20…

Covid-19’s impact on the arts world has led to countless films and concerts being scrapped or postponed and theatres and galleries closed. Here’s an updating list of what’s affected so far Latest • Disn…

By Douglas Mayo The London premiere of the Tony award-winning Best Play comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang has been postponed This post Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Chari…

The upcoming production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Charing Cross Theatre, co-produced by cast member Janie Dee, was meant to form a part of the first-ever London Climate Change Festival.

Award-winning actress Janie Dee will be joined by Vincent Franklin, Rebecca Lacey, Michelle Asante, Charlie Maher and Lukwesa Mwamba in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike when it opens at Charing Cross Theatre…