\'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike\' Moving to Broadway

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times From left, Kristine Nielsen as Sonia, Sigourney Weaver as Masha and David Hyde Pierce as Vanya play hapless stay-at-homes.

Christopher Durang’s latest Off Broadway play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” starring Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce, will transfer to Broadway’s Golden Theater in March with the original cast intact, the producers announced on Tuesday.

The play adds to an already starry spring on Broadway. Ms. Weaver, who last performe there in 1996 in Mr. Durang’s “Sex and Longing,” and Mr. Hyde Pierce (a Tony and Emmy winner, best known for NBC’s “Frasier”) will join a springtime lineup that already includes Tom Hanks (“Lucky Guy”), Bette Midler (“I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers”), Scarlett Johansson (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”), Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf (“Orphans”), Nathan Lane (“The Nance”), and Cicely Tyson (“The Trip to Bountiful”).

“Vanya and Sonia…,” which draws on themes from Chekhov plays like “Uncle Vanya” and “The Seagull” for a black comedy about unhappy siblings in present-day Bucks County, Pa., opened at Lincoln Center Theater in November to generally good reviews. Joining Ms. Weaver and Mr. Hyde Pierce in the Broadway transfer are the other members of the orig! inal cast: Kristine Nielsen, Genevieve Angelson, Shalita Grant and Billy Magnussen.

The play, directed by Nicholas Martin, is scheduled to run for 17 weeks, beginning performances on March 5 and opening on March 14. The producers are Joey Parnes, Larry Hirschhorn, and John O’Boyle. Mr. Durang’s plays include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You,” “Betty’s Summer Vacation,” and “Miss Witherspoon,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2006.