Willamette Week

PETE’s New Version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” Isn’t Just For Stuffy Academics

Staging a classic play like Uncle Vanya requires a difficult balance. Often, contemporary productions of Anton Chekhov's plays either feel like nothing more than a new coat of paint on an old shed, or ...

This Uncle Vanya – a quick-witted Risteárd Cooper – plays it cool in a house of freaks

“Let me tell you how much I love you!” Vanya – a quick-witted Risteárd Cooper, as a shabby labourer nearing 50 – yelps as he ...
BroadwayWorld

BBW Review: UNCLE VANYA Brings Anton Chekhov to the Stage at The City Theatre in Austin, TX.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Celebrated as a revolutionary playwright in turn of the century Industrial Russia, ...
Los Angeles Times

The actors in Pasadena’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ ruminate, fulminate, kvetch — much like life

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 ...
The Washington Post

In a busy New York summer, it’s a Chekhov play that burns hottest

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 ...
NJ.com

‘Uncle Vanya’ starring Steve Carell: Chekhov’s classic gets a clumsy update | Review

Does the current revival of “Uncle Vanya,” starring Steve Carell in his Broadway debut, take place in the present day, as the actor’s clothes and idiom might suggest? Presumably people weren’t ...
Univeristy of Iowa Daily Iowan

Riverside Theater brings new translation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya to Iowa

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov is a play that most people have been exposed to in some form or another, be it the “History of Theater” general education class or a production put on by a local ...
Observer

Review: Savor High-Def Chekhov in a Marvelously Intimate ‘Uncle Vanya’

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 ...
WHYY

Review: Keeping up the pace with ‘Uncle Vanya’ (Quintessence Theatre Group)

One glib maxim defines the entirety of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”: Life sucks, then you die. Chekhov loads his masterpiece with characters who are bored, depressed and overwhelmed by their own ...
BroadwayWorld

Heidi Schreck's Translation of Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA Acquired by Concord Theatricals

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “I’m thrilled to be teaming up again with Concord Theatricals, my publishing home ...
The Arts Desk

Uncle Vanya, Orange Tree Theatre review - Chekhov served up choice

As casually bruising a play as I know, Chekhov's wounding yet also brutally funny masterwork exists to explode Telegin's remark across four acts, and adaptor-director Trevor Nunn's terrific ...
The Washington Post

Australian actors and a Hungarian director roll Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ to D.C.

It’s one thing to need a translator to adapt a play. It’s quite another to need one to help direct it. That trickier arrangement is how Australia-based Cate Blanchett and her writer-husband Andrew ...