The thrilling Broadway premiere of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece How I Learned to Drive reunites the original stars with their award-winning director for a new production.

But, no. When “How I Learned to Drive” opens, things are not at all how they appear. For our “lovers” are a 17-year-old girl named Li’l Bit and her enigmatic Uncle Peck. But while your ...

And yet “How I Learned to Drive” is also funny. The play doesn’t sink with the gravity of its subject matter; it finds moments of levity without minimizing the tragic parts of the story.

There are few if any wrong turns in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-winning memory play “How I Learned to Drive,” a feat all the more impressive when it involves such a complex and disturbing story.

"How I Learned to Drive," which won Paula Vogel the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 (and hasn't been seen in New York since), is one of those plays you don't forget in a hurry. Surreal production style ...