Slow Horses star joins cast for 'fresh and urgent' adaptation of "masterpiece" drama

Slow Horses star Kristin Scott Thomas is set to star in a new stage production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard from ...

Chekhov Plays for an Un-Chekhov Time

The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and Aleksandr Molochnikov all infuse their current productions with a burning ...
BroadwayWorld

THREE SISTERS Comes to Classical Theatre Company

The Classical Theatre Company will wrap up its 17th Season with the master of early modern drama, Anton Chekhov, in his stirring family drama, Three Sisters. The play focuses on the three Prozorov ...
Los Angeles Times

How Anton Chekhov became the playwright of the moment

The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov’s plays depict ...
The New York Times

Anton Chekhov

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees. By Joshua Hammer Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the 1900 play by ...
Post and Courier

Review: New translation of Chekhov's stories show a master's ability to make the ordinary sublime

FIFTY-TWO STORIES. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Knopf. 508 pages. $35. In a lecture published posthumously in 1981, Vladimir Nabokov had this to say about ...
Los Angeles Times

What’s missing in two starry new productions of Ibsen and Chekhov on Broadway

Broadway found room this spring for classics from two titans of modern drama — Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” and Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” It’s thrilling that at such an uncertain time ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Cate Blanchett to Return to Theater in Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ on London Stage

The Australian star will perform as Arkadina in a new version of Anton Chekhov's play at the Barbican Theatre in London from February. By Lily Ford Cate Blanchett will return to the stage for the ...
Forbes

New Adaption Of Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard’ Will Be Performed Live In New York City And Virtually Next Month

A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard will begin previews at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan on June 7. The new play, The Orchard, will be performed live through July 3 and ...
Chicago Tribune

In the beautiful Japanese movie ‘Drive My Car,’ we’re deep in Chekhov territory: Here’s your official tip sheet

In “Drive My Car,” a lovely movie about the interior dramas we all carry around through life, a multilingual group of actors have come to Hiroshima to prepare a production of Anton Chekhov’s 1898 play ...
The New Yorker

Chekhov’s Other Dramatic Principles

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...