Paula Vogel

The Long Christmas Ride Home

Reading • Talk • Signing

Resident Playwright at The Signature Theatre Company Paula Vogel reads from her latest release, The Long Christmas Ride Home.

Vogel's Hot and Throbbing is Signature's final play of the season and will run until May 1.

In The Long Christmas Ride Home, past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life. Combining the elements of Nó theatre and Bunraku with contemporary Western sensibilities, Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home is a memorizing homage to the works of Thornton Wilder, including Our Town. A moving and memorable study of the American family careening near the edge of oblivion.

“Enough to make even die-hard agnostics believe, at least for an instant, in the mystical powers of drama.”
— Ben Brantley, New York Times

“ Brilliant...even more ambitious than Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive...it covers more ground and is bolder in its storytelling. Vogel’s language is at its most poetic, eloquent and elegiac. In fact, its vivid imagery rivals the prose style of any great American short story writer. The play sounds like it might have been adapted from a beautiful, undiscovered novella.”
— New Haven Register

“One of the most absorbing evenings of theatre to come along in some time.”
— Variety

For More information on the Paula Vogel season at The Signature Theatre Company visit the website at www.signaturetheater.org

Paula Vogel’s plays include The Baltimore Waltz, Mineola Twins, Hot and Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, among others. Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as winning her second Obie. She has taught at Brown University in the MFA Playwriting program since 1985.


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