The climax of playwright Anton Chekhov’s modern-realist masterpiece, “Uncle Vanya,” occurs when the titular character, in a fit of despondence, pulls a pistol on his idol. He fires point blank and ...

Chekhov (1860-1904), a practicing physician and Russia s most famous playwright, created Uncle Vanya by reworking The Wood Demon, which he wrote a decade earlier. It was premiered in 1899 in a ...

The heart of any production of “Uncle Vanya” is the tender relationship between the title character and his niece, Sonya. The primacy of their connection in the web of feelings explored in the play is ...

NEW YORK — “Intimate” is the go-to description for theater in small spaces these days. The term has even entered the help-wanted lexicon, defining the role of a production’s intimacy director, who ...

NEW YORK − More than a century on, “Uncle Vanya” continues to be as relevant as ever. The latest rendition is Lincoln Center Theater's “Uncle Vanya,” which opened Wednesday at the Vivian Beaumont. The ...

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 ...

David Mirvish is pleased to present the critically acclaimed, spellbinding new adaptation and production from Crow’s Theatre of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Liisa Repo-Martell and directed ...

During a long (deliberately tedious) monologue in Uncle Vanya’s third act, Doctor Astrov (Will Brill) unrolls a series of maps he has drawn that track local biodiversity. In diagrams that go back 50 ...

Lila Neugebauer directs a very punchy revival of “Uncle Vanya,” which opened Wednesday at LCT’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Anton Chekhov’s characters suffer from ennui, but not so much in this ...

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