Laugh-out-loud funny and Chekhov are not words I have often had occasion to use in the same sentence. I've always associated the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov more with Russian misery, with ...

For many, though, the main attraction of this new “Vanya” will be Steve Carell, the TV and film star who is making his Broadway debut as Chekhov’s forlorn protagonist. Like other works by the ...

“Uncle Vanya” (now playing at the Kennedy Center) is, like all of the great Russian dramatist’s works, a complex quadrille of jealousy and unrequited love. It’s set at a crumbling country estate that ...

Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, the year the ...

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Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” has long been referred to as a theater classic. The play examines the themes of purpose, love and human failure centered on Uncle Vanya, a man struggling with regret of ...

Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya—perhaps his harshest play—is a study in claustrophobia. Its enclosed spaces are literal: Bottled up in an isolated country house, its characters chafe against each other until ...