They belonged to two different social classes and two different generations. However, there was great mutual respect and admiration between Russian writers: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and Anton Chekhov ...

Beginning January 23rd Mint will present a program of short plays adapted from stories by two of the world's greatest authors, Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy. These dramatic adaptations come from one ...

In January, the Obie-winning Mint Theater Company will return Off-Broadway with the world premiere of Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories. The evening will see back-to-back presentations of two short plays ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Chekhov's "An Artist's Story" tells the story ...

NEW YORK – In the winter of 1901 or 1902, Anton Chekhov visited Leo Tolstoy in the spa town of Gaspra. It may not have gone well. “I hate your plays,” Tolstoy whispered from his sick bed. “Shakespeare ...

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear reactor accident occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine, which contaminated as much as 75 percent of Europe. Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich ...

Tolstoy hated Chekhov’s plays and wasn’t shy about telling him, according to an excerpt from “Memories of Chekhov.” A new version of “From Here to Eternity” restores additional text by James Jones. Is ...

TOLSTOY: A LIFE OF MY FATHER (543 pp.)—Alexandra Tolsyoy—Harper ($5). CHEKHOV: A LIFE (431 pp.)—David Magarshack—Grove Press ($6). Count Leo Tolstoy believed that “gymnastics do not interfere with ...

'Do you need my biography?" Anton Chekhov wrote an enquiring editor in 1892. "Here it is. In 1860 I was born in Taganrog. . . . In 1891 I toured Europe, where I drank splendid wine and ate oysters. . ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Mint Theater Company pairs stage adaptations of short stories by the 19th-century Russian authors. They mesh like mismatched matryoshka dolls. By ...