The Perfect Sonya

Actress Pauline Terry is so successful in a performance of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya that one critic calls her “the perfect Sonya.” But her life is not what she expected when she left Texas for Broadway. She swims in a fish tank in a New Jersey bar to make a living, most auditions do not result in callbacks, and her marriage is shaky.

Called home by her father’s imminent death, she confronts both the past she thought she’d left behind and her uncertain future. For solace she turns to her aunt’s ...