The day after their show won the Tony Award for best play, the producers of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike†announced that its Broadway run would continue at the Golden Theater through Aug. 25. The play, a bittersweet comedy by Christopher Durang, had been slated to close on June 30, then July 28.
Sigourney Weaver, who plays the self-satisfied actress Masha opposite the Tony nominees David Hyde Pierce (as her brother Vanya) and Kristine Nielsen (as their sister Sonia), will leave the show on July 28. Julie White, a Tony winner for “The Little Dog Laughed,†will take over her part for the final month of the twice-extended run. After engagements at the nonprofit McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., and Lincoln Center Theater, “Vanya and Sonia†opened March 14 on Broadway.
