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About the Play
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning play about a professor recconing with a cancer diagnosis.
Story:
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
Playwright
Margaret Edson
Broadway Premiere
- Theatre
- Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
- Opening Night
- Jan 26, 2012
- Total Performances
- 60
- Original Cast
- Cynthia Nixon, Pun Bandhu, Suzanne Bertish, Michael Countryman, Jessica Dickey, Chiké Johnson, Greg Keller, Carra Patterson, Zachary Spicer
- Director
- Lynne Meadow
- Producer
- Manhattan Theatre Club
- Scenic Design
- Santo Loquasto
- Costume Design
- Jennifer von Mayrhauser
- Lighting Design
- Peter Kaczorowski
- Sound Design
- Jill B.C. Du Boff
- Projection Design
- Rocco DiSanti
2001 TV Version
- Movie Name
- Wit
- Type
- Made for TV Movie
- Director
- Mike Nichols
- Screenplay
- Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols
- Starring
- Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins
Scripts, Videos, Merchandise and More
2012 Tony Award Nominations
Best Revival Of A Play
Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role In A Play - Cynthia Nixon
1999 Pulitzer Prize Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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