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 ...

While Anton Chekhov always thought of The Seagull as a comedy, that fact has frequently been forgotten through productions that fall into the soporific trap set by angsty, moping, lovelorn characters ...

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 world premiere of “The Seagull: Malibu,” an evocative retelling of Anton Chekhov’s timeless masterpiece as re-imagined by Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum artistic director Ellen Geer, opens this ...

Anton Chekhov was the first playwright to drastically bend the trajectory of art toward life. His lasting influence — not just on theater but on all the arts and on our everyday understanding — has ...

Shortly after Courtney Smith joined Bates in the fall of 2024 as an associate professor of theater, he floated an idea for a production that was both over-the-top ambitious and absolute catnip to his ...

Swelling, as it does, toward an exquisite climactic monologue on the subject of endurance itself, Anton Chekhov’s what’s-it-all-for? comedy The Seagull can afford to demand a bit of patience. But ...

When Anton Chekhov’s first play, “The Seagull,” premiered in St. Petersburg in 1896, opening night was a disaster. If the stories are true, Chekhov was embarrassed enough to duck out halfway through ...

From left: Ato Essandoh, Parker Posey, Daniel Oreskes, David Cale in ‘The Seagull/Woodstock, NY’ at Pershing Square Signature Center. Monique Carboni Subtlety is not among the virtues of Bradshaw’s ...

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