Chekhov's first successful foray into the theater is, perhaps, not as well known as THE SEAGULL or THREE SISTERS, but it has been very highly regarded by scholars and performers, even dubbed the ...

David Hare’s versions of Platonov, Ivanov and The Seagull, now at the National Theatre in a superb production by Jonathan Kent, leave you exhilarated I have spent many all-day sessions in theatres but ...

Chris Pine is heading to the London stage for the first time, starring as Nikolai Ivanov in a new production of Anton Chekhov‘s classic play at the Bridge Theatre. London Theatre Company revealed that ...

As if one needed a reason to go to the theater in London, here's one of the better ones: Anton Chekhov, that supreme Russian arbiter of the quietly wounded heart and often noisily wasted life, has ...

Classic Stage has been on a tear with Chekhov lately, with last season’s Beckettian Cherry Orchard following on the prior season’s incandescent Three Sisters. They mounted The Seagull in 2008 and ...

Yury Butusov and the Moscow Art Theater were hardly alone this season in putting together a production of a play by Anton Chekhov. In this, the year honoring the 150th anniversary of the writer’s ...

The early works of the great Russian playwright receive less attention than The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya. But these direct, risky plays remain vital – and The Seagull is perfection In a ...

Anton Chekhov's early drama Ivanov centers on a very unhappy, heavily indebted Russian landowner in the 1880s. The drama is written unevenly, with themes that are more smoothly handled in his later ...

“Ivanov,” the play in which Anton Chekhov was still testing the formula for his dramatic breakthrough, is usually revived in somberly autumnal shades. So the opportunity to see the play thrillingly ...