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 ...

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 ...

The disruptive presence of a “retired” university professor and his much-younger wife upsets the routine lives of the inhabitants of a rural Russian estate, causing polite facades to crumble and long ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut next spring in the title role of Lincoln Center Theater’s Uncle Vanya, appearing with, among others, Alison Pill as Sonya, Alfred Molina as Alexander ...

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 ...

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 ...