Seat Filler: Best NYC Theater of 2012

6. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Out playwright Christopher Durang relocates Chekhovian themes of discontent and longing to Pennsylvania in his winsomely quirky comedy starring David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristine Nielsen as squabbling siblings. Gifted with a show-stopping monologue about his nostalgic resistance to change, Pierce’s Vanya, a gay aspiring playwright, is especially entranced by Billy Magnussen as his sister’s exhibitionist boy toy.
Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, through January 13.