Sonya and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic wife move in, their lives are upended. In the ...

Comedy, good comedy, walks a razor’s edge, ready to teeter into tragedy at any moment. “Uncle Vanya,” now onstage at The Rogue Theatre, is good comedy. Really good comedy. It’s sometimes hard to see ...

A retired professor owns a country estate that his daughter Sonya and brother-in-law Uncle Vanya run. When he visits the estate with his beautiful and young new wife Yelena, both Uncle Vanya and the ...

The contemporary setting of Heidi Schreck’s translation of “Uncle Vanya” feels so natural that one could miss the change entirely. Even as the setting of a 19th century Russian estate is transformed ...

Uncle Vanya begins as Sonya and her Uncle Vanya throw their lives into maintaining the crumbling family estate occasionally visited by the radical and inspiring local doctor Astrov. However, when ...

Anton Chekhov is reported to have been very disturbed that the comedies he wrote were played as intense dramas. The plot of his play, “Uncle Vanya,” is about middle-aged and elderly people who live ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages? By Jason ...

Why did turn-of-the-20th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov name “Uncle Vanya” after his play’s most unhappy, most aimless, most pitiful and self-pitying character? As Vanya, actor Hugh ...

Through a staging of “Uncle Vanya,” the director Ryusuke Hamaguchi creates an intimacy for his characters that lets the artifice of cinema fall away. By A.O. Scott I’m going to talk about how the ...