Sojourns to the countryside can inspire great clarity—or, if they go badly, they can engender loneliness, uncertainty, and general misdirection. In the first production of a season ...

Is it telling that the sweetest and most transporting production I remember from 2025 happened in early January? “Dead as a Dodo,” a virtuosic puppet show by the theatre company Wakka Wakka, about a ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Saltfire Theatre will present “Uncle Vanya” with shows at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 23. The comedy, written by Anton Chekov, will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If one of the main missions of theater is asking the big questions that everyone contemplates at one time or another, the folks at ...

Since Christopher Durang’s clever and funny play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” made its San Diego premiere at The Old Globe in 2014, I’ve seen it three times. Never have I enjoyed it more than ...

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.

Last weekend, Terry Martin’s adapted classic, A Country Life, premiered by The Theatre Classics Project. The local actor-playwright-director transformed Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya into a provincial ...

The protean Irishman's first original play in over a decade, this play can be seen as a response to his starry adaptation of Uncle Vanya, which was on the West End in 2020 as COVID was hitting ...

In some ways, Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, a horror-tinged Victorian critique of the perils of existing in thrall to one’s own image, is a story ready-made for 2025. The title ...

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 ...

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 ...