And yet 2025 still managed to be a banner year for theatre. Artists responded to the omnidesperation of our hour by doubling ...

The 47-year-old Red Sparrow actor has been sentenced to six months in prison, a €4,000 (£3,520) fine and a one-year driving ban for driving without a valid licence. The sentence was decided by a ...

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 ...

A family dress-up in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” costumes inside a staid country farmhouse is just one of the absurdities in Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” Another ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many ways to skin the Chekhov cat. There is everything from word-for-word renderings to more imaginative riffs such as Aaron Posner’s wildly beautiful Stupid F***king Bird. What unites them ...

Minus the haughty grandeur of the elegant Lord Grantham, his Vanya emerges, surprisingly, from under a rug - disheveled, displaced and more than a little disaffected in the crumbling country mansion ...

A half dozen or more Chekhov plays have hit major stages this spring, with renowned actors biting off big roles — or all of them at once, in the case of Andrew Scott — and invigorating the writer’s ...

At first blush, a one-person take on Uncle Vanya might sound like a terrible idea—a belabored theatrical stunt destined to wear thin pretty quickly. But in the hands of Andrew Scott, one of the most ...

Perhaps it’s too much to ask that a production tell a cogent story of a classic play when there’s only one actor playing nine characters and the usual running time has been cut almost in half. In ...