In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya (Toby Jones) while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally only by the local doctor Astrov (Richard ...

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Berkeley — It’s astonishing what a good director can do. The best among them can turn the disparate elements of theater into something seamlessly whole. Simon Godwin, artistic director of Shakespeare ...

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 ...