"The play is steeped in a gentle lyricism we associate with nostalgic portraits of American youth. The tone, the setting, the characters seem at first so familiar, so, well, normal, that it's only by degrees that we sense the poison within the pastels. By then we feel both locked into, and complicit with, this portrait of a warping relationship. That's the art of Drive."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Paula Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece, How I Learned to Drive, winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and many other accolades, is published here for the...