Wit (1998 original)

Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic masterpiece 'Wit' exploded onto the Off-Broadway stage at the Union Square Theatre in 1998, running for an astonishing, record-shattering 545 performances and capturing the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play. The claustrophobic, real-time naturalistic tragedy tracks Dr. Vivian Bearing, a brilliant, hyper-articulate university professor of John Donne's holy sonnets poetry, who faces an absolute existential crisis while undergoing medical analysis for terminal cancer. Directed by Derek Anson Jones, it starred Kathleen Chalfant.