“The Humans,” a timely drama that won the Tony Award for best new play this year, will close Jan. 15 and begin a national tour.

The play, by Stephen Karam, has become the rare nonmusical to enjoy an extended run on today’s Broadway — long enough that it had to switch theaters this summer. “The Humans” began performances on Broadway on Jan. 24 after productions at the American Theater Company in Chicago and the Roundabout Theater Company in New York (which commissioned the work).

Set on Thanksgiving Day, the play depicts a family gathering for the holiday and grappling with the issues that confront their lives and their relationships. Writing in The New York Times, the critic Charles Isherwood called it a “piercingly funny, bruisingly sad comedy-drama,” and said that it “might almost qualify as deep-delving reportage, so clearly does it illuminate the current, tremor-ridden landscape of contemporary America.”

The play won four Tony Awards, including not only the one for best play, but also for best performance by a featured actor in a play, for Reed Birney; best performance by a featured actress in a play, for Jayne Houdyshell; and best scenic design of a play, for David Zinn.