Harvey is Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about Elwood P. Dowd, an unfailingly amiable, gentle man whose best friend is Harvey, a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit that only Elwood, and occasionally others under particular circumstances, can see. Elwood's genial insistence on introducing Harvey to everyone he meets embarrasses his socially ambitious sister Veta, who, desperate to protect the family's reputation and her daughter's marriage prospects, attempts to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium, only for a mix-up to nearly land her there instead. As doctors and family members are gradually drawn into questioning their own assumptions about sanity, reality, and happiness, the play gently suggests that Elwood's kindness and imaginative faith might make him saner, and certainly happier, than the anxious, status-conscious people around him. Chase's warm, whimsical script never definitively resolves whether Harvey is truly real, leaving the question pleasantly open. Its gentle humor and its enduring message about the value of kindness over convention have made it one of the most cherished comedies in the American theatrical canon.

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