Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” has long been referred to as a theater classic. The play examines the themes of purpose, love and human failure centered on Uncle Vanya, a man struggling with regret of ...

Vanya and his niece work their small country estate, living frugally and keeping their emotions tightly reined in until visitors turn their world upside down and leave them back where they began but ...

The ingredients of any juicy stage production—drunken ramblings, mismatched lovers and errant gunplay—never seem to get old. These show-stopping elements are present in the classic Anton Chekhov play, ...

The contemporary setting of Heidi Schreck’s translation of “Uncle Vanya” feels so natural that one could miss the change entirely. Even as the setting of a 19th century Russian estate is transformed ...

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 ...

Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, the year the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages? By Jason ...

A Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya, with a new translation by playwright Heidi Schreck, will be staged this spring by Lincoln Center Theater. Lila Neugebauer (The Waverly ...