{"id":46199,"date":"2014-11-02T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/stage-review-vanya-and-sonia-and-masha-and-spike.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:58:09","slug":"stage-review-vanya-and-sonia-and-masha-and-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/stage-review-vanya-and-sonia-and-masha-and-spike.html","title":{"rendered":"Stage Review: &quot;Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got to see this in downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon. It&#39;s an entertaining Chekhovian (and consciously so) tale of age and sibling rivalry and ego and regret, but leavened with plenty of humor. The language gets a bit awkward at times, and the ending feels a bit too neatly wrapped, but it was an enjoyable way to pass the afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>The play was penned by Christopher Durang, and the Broadway version won the 2013 Tony.<\/p>\n<p>(Picture: Eddie Lopez [Spike], Kathleen McCall [Masha], (Director Jenn Thompson), Amelia White [Sasha], Lesley Shires, Sam Gregory [Vanya], and Socorro Santiago [Cassandra]. Photo by John Moore.)<\/p>\n<p>Another installment in our effort to See More Theater, and a pretty successful one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6077142422943027297\/6077142427511017314'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-fnfEtpVwmB0\/VFZY1vk_z2I\/AAAAAAAC36c\/SM4d2OwA3ug\/Vanya%2Bcast.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZgK78SQzFB2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got to see this in downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon. It&#39;s an entertaining Chekhovian (and consciously so) tale of age and sibling rivalry and ego and regret, but leavened with plenty of humor. The language gets a bit awkward at times, and the ending feels a bit too neatly wrapped, but it was an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/stage-review-vanya-and-sonia-and-masha-and-spike.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stage Review: &quot;Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Vanya+cast.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/10\/i_like_spike.html","url_meta":{"origin":46199,"position":0},"title":"I like Spike","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jun-03 6:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Huh. 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