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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 ...

The ingredients of any juicy stage production—drunken ramblings, mismatched lovers and errant gunplay—never seem to get old. These show-stopping elements are present in the classic Anton Chekhov play, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 21ten Theatre’s earthy and emotional Uncle Vanya, directed by Chris Conner, a young woman named Sonya (Hailey Houser) calls herself ugly. “I know I am,” she says before slowly turning to look at ...

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 ...

While it is not uncommon for Shakespeare Theatre Company to produce plays written by people not named William Shakespeare, the current production of Uncle Vanya, a co-production with Berkeley ...

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 ...

The opening night performance of Kansas City Actors’ Theatre production of Antov Checkov’s UNCLE VANYA ended with an enthusiastic standing ovation on City Stage in the lower level of Union Station.