[REVIEW] Check Out Durang’s Chekhov Mash-Up

Each year in the last edition of The Wave we publish a list of memorable moments from what area audiences saw on stage during the year. But I can tell you right here and now that the production of Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike directed by Julie Ahasay that opened at the Duluth Playhouse on Thursday night is making that list and it is making it at least twice, because Christopher Durang’s Tony Award winning play provides not one but two absolute tour de force scenes well worth seeing.

L to R: Spike (Matthew Smith), Masha (Carrie Mohn), Cassandra (Kate Horvath), and Vanya (John Pokrzywinksi)

L to R: Spike (Matthew Smith), Masha (Carrie Mohn), Cassandra (Kate Horvath), and Vanya (John Pokrzywinksi)

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