Whether he is imbibing a glass of tea or vodka, Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is never able to overcome the fact that at 50 years of age he realizes his life has been wasted. Whether he is imbibing a ...

The play “Uncle Vanya,” by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, was first produced in 1899, but Clark Lewis, founder and director of Santa Rosa’s Roustabout Theater, believes it’s still fresh and vibrant ...

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 ...

Smart production of Chekov play dotted with Hiberno-English honours original but gives it a familiar feel Maria Oxley Boardman and Risteárd Cooper in Uncle Vanya. Photo: Olga Kuzmenko Uncle Vanya by ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pairing one of the greatest plays ever written with one of the world’s most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Filled with sad-sack characters living lives of soul-sucking boredom, Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” is never a walk in the park to produce or, for that matter, to watch. In Chekhov, that’s always an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.