A play that originated at the McCarter Theatre Center has won this year’s Tony Award for best play .
A play that originated at the McCarter Theatre Center has won this year’s Tony Award for best play .
”Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a comedy by Christopher Durang had its world premiere in Princeton prior to Broadway.
McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Emily Mann accepted the award at the ceremonies in New York on Sunday night, along with Mr. Durang, on behalf of the Broadway producers and McCarter’s producing partner, Lincoln Center Theatre.
A McCarter Theatre commission and a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays award, the play had its world premiere at McCarter Theatre, last Sept. 7 through Oct. 14.
The production, with the same cast and creative team that launched the play at McCarter, is now playing on Broadway at the Golden Theatre.
The play stars David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Sigourney Weaver and Billy Magnussen.
In the past 20 years, McCarter has produced more than 50 world premieres. In the past 10 years, new plays and adaptations launched by McCarter have appeared a dozen times in American Theater magazine list of the most frequently produced plays of the season.
Its multi-faceted, highly customizable approach has made McCarter one of the foremost theaters in the nation for the development of new plays and musicals. McCarter is supported by Princeton University, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and over 3,000 individuals, corporations, and foundations.