| 单词 | Chekhov |
| 例句 | “Yes, actually. Right out of college, I did a kind of bad postmodern Chekhov thing, set in the Holocaust era—which is just always a really bad idea—at the Public Theater.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Now, I would do anything to sit through Freckles’s bad Holocaust production of Chekhov. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I remember,” Freckles says, “from that Chekhov play I did after NYU. We took publicity shots on a bridge.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Chekhov’s first rule of playwriting goes something like this: “If there’s a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Never one where Chekhov’s talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul onstage. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The more you learn about Chekhov, as you read biographies, memoirs, the letters – the more clear it becomes that he led a love-life of astonishing activity and complexity. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Wood is haunted by fiction and its effects; two reviews in the collection, written 20 years apart, analyze the same short story, Chekhov’s “The Kiss.” In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z This time his company tackles Chekhov’s humorously heartbreaking story of siblings who yearn for both past and future in a grim present. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z Among her compatriots, she’s certainly not alone in her admiration of Anton Chekhov, widely considered one of the finest short story writers. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z And Mr. Bartlett borrows unapologetically from both Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Seagull” for his portrayal of the characters here. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z And, of course, Ms. Blanchett, who graces this new adaptation of “Platonov,” an early Chekhov play, is not merely a movie star burnishing her reputation with a Broadway debut. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z There are 98 letters surviving from Mizinova to Chekhov and 67 in the other direction. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z It’s impossible to read Chekhov without adopting his verbs. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Chekhov suggested that every day imposes a precarious mood, and we either submit to the point of damage, or we struggle to transcend it, trying to gain some equilibrium, and even discover a little happiness. Ann Beattie is one of our few contemporary masters of storytelling 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Chekhov took the lead, as it were, with his beautiful story of "The Lady with the Little Dog". It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z That disconnection is what generates both the comedy and tragedy in this play, not that it’s possible to distinguish between the two in Chekhov. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z Despite these emendations, this “Seagull” remains surprisingly faithful to the spirit, if not the letter, of Chekhov’s original. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z What we soon discovered was that significant changes had been made to Chekhov’s script during the rehearsals at the Moscow Art Theater. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Obviously I’m not saying we should do “A Raisin in the Sun” with a white cast, but a cross-cast Chekhov, or Ibsen? ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Working in England as well as in North America, Mr. Langham led a formidable roster of leading men and women through the rigors of Shakespeare, Shaw, Molière, Chekhov and others. Michael Langham, Classical Theater Director, Dies at 91 2011-01-20T05:56:02Z And some central incidents, themes and personae in "The Wood Demon" were put to more successful use years later in another Chekhov drama — a masterpiece titled "Uncle Vanya." On stage: myths by the pool, and Chekhov's 'The Wood Demon' 2011-06-09T20:16:19Z The cast list for “Days and Nights,” a modern reworking of Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” is so juicy that I approached the movie with lip-smacking expectations of scenery being chewed and spit out with histrionic gusto. ‘Days and Nights,’ an Update of Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And there’s a small, accomplished band of musicians, who occasionally provide melancholy melodic interjections that would be far more at home in a more conventional Chekhov production. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z “How do you do theater and Chekhov when there’s bombings and killings?” he said. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The head spins with options, because Chekhov’s sly and subtle plays are awhirl with all these human contradictions, and beautifully so, when they work. Chekhov’s ‘Vanya’ rides again, with uncertain feeling 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The Roundabout Theater Company, a nonprofit that operates three Broadway theaters, said Tuesday that Ms. Lane would play the lead role, Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, in a revival of the Chekhov classic this fall. Diane Lane to Star in 'The Cherry Orchard' on Broadway 1464-05-26T05:00:00Z Along the way, Nelson has established a style of theater that has its roots in Chekhov: not naturalistic or realistic, but, as Nelson said in a recent interview, an attempt at verisimilitude. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z If Anton Chekhov gave a name to the early play that surfaced years after his death, we don’t know what it was. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z While Chekhov’s works have become a staple of the international repertory, cherished for their subtle mixture of the comic and the tragic, Ostrovsky has mostly retreated to the textbooks outside of his own country. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z The piece raids Chekhov's oeuvre to cobble together a script with lines of dialogue from seven of his one-act and full-length plays. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z “We are tired of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s plays being performed, and we are tired of being perpetually unhappy in his world,” they tell the audience. ‘chekhovOS /an experimental game/’ Review: Life on a Merry-Go-Round 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The title character of Chekhov’s early play, a womanizing schoolteacher who broods on his life of failure, never materializes during the production’s two and a half hours. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Though his myriad of short stories are enormously popular in his homeland, it is his theatrical contributions to world drama that have earned Chekhov international fame. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z The coming Off Broadway production of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” has become a who’s who of young acting elite in New York theater. ArtsBeat: Marin Ireland and Juliet Rylance Round Out 'Three Sisters' for Classic Stage 2010-12-03T16:54:00Z It's ideal for people who are are looking for the scope and breadth of Tolstoy, or Chekhov, Edward P Jones or even Steinbeck. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z Watch any Chekhov play, and you grasp the national ennui that preceded the Russian Revolution. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z Jack Dory’s sword is the opposite of Chekhov’s gun: It appears for the purpose of not being used. Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel, About a Girl Who Would Be King 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z No one could match him on this continent in farce, and he was an expert at Shakespeare and Chekhov too. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The acting is terrific, the interiors and exteriors are strongly evocative, and this is almost certainly the only Chekhov adaptation to include a close-up of lusty kangaroos. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Yet for all the emotional truth in these characters, from Turgenev and Ostrovsky to Chekhov, the sentence for those who stray is harsh. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Batuman’s search for something more from literature than “brisk verbs and vivid nouns” led her, swooning but alert, into the arms of the great Russian writers: Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Babel. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z What is only partially fulfilled in this rendering is Chekhov’s double portrait of the story’s younger, striving and more fragile artists. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z The Mint Theater continues its relationship with the English playwright Miles Malleson, staging two of his adaptations: Chekhov’s story of an artist and Tolstoy’s tale of a peasant couple. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Chekhov was tall for the late 19th-century, six foot one, a big man. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Later, Mr. Vyrypaev said, Praktika presented other plays with curse words after President Vladimir V. Putin said in a meeting with writers that while Tolstoy and Chekhov didn’t need cursing, “You, the writers, know best.” Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The title might lead you to think Posner is perpetrating an attack on the work, but he’s riffing here on Chekhov, rather than roughing him up. ‘The Seagull,’ now a mere ‘Bird’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre One of her lodestars was Anton Chekhov, whose “bark of the prosaic,” she wrote in her book about him, “encases a story’s vital poetic core.” Janet Malcolm, a Writer Who Emphasized the Messiness of Life With Slyness and Precision 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z So when the characters of the Classic Stage Company’s wonderfully fresh and affecting production of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” gather for a group portrait, they hold their poses for what feels like an unblinking eternity. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z But these nebulous connections never cohere into anything approaching cogent commentary on the life or work of Chekhov. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z Like Anton Chekhov, Hopper was both a realist and a ruthless editor. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Like the characters in Chekhov's Three Sisters, they know the great storm looming will blow in a different kind of life – but, as Farber makes devastatingly clear, it's a long way off yet. Mies Julie – review 2013-03-12T18:54:06Z Her ferocious energies were very much like those of a Russian intellectual of the Tolstoy or Chekhov kind: nervous, intense, single-mindedly dedicated to the pursuit of art. Becoming Francine du Plessix Gray 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The cast includes actors from various countries, all of them speaking Chekhov’s dialogue in their native languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, Tagalog and Korean Sign Language. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Thankfully, for a show that both lampoons and honors Chekhov's themes, it doesn't end with the sadness that usually dominates that revered playwright's work. Review: Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia' a zany joy 2013-03-15T03:01:06Z By the time it ended, "Suffering, Inc." had melded the surreal and the mundane, Chekhov's world and our own. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z And, yes, I suppose you could see the numerous sequences set among doctors and nurses in a hospital as some sort of commentary on Chekhov’s status as a physician, which he considered his primary vocation. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z The young Chekhov had yet to build the naturalistic bridge that connects those realms. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Other than Chekhov, there’s not a lot of stuff that gets produced from the Russian writers over here. Q&A: Jon Hamm on his other TV role 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s more like Chekhov, with all these characters, inwardly divided, complex, in paradoxical situations. Have Photo Albums, Will Travel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And this fall, you can take a Zoom lip-syncing course with the performance scholar M.B Boucai, integrating the psychological gesture technique of Michael Chekhov and the mime tradition of Jacques Lecoq. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Chekhov, for example, suffered particularly from our humour bypass when his plays arrived in Britain. Is it OK to laugh at Ibsen? 2010-10-25T09:57:00Z Tolstoy, Turgenev, Pasternak, Chekhov, check them all off; Groskop is just sorry there’s only one woman, the sublime Anna Akhmatova, on her list. Review | The surprising — and surprisingly funny — lessons one woman learned from Russian literature 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Her aesthetic embrace is wide, finding room for Ionesco, Chekhov, Brecht and the painter Edward Hopper. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z This is one of the grammatical ways that Chekhov pushes the reader onto the surface of the story, and so the story remains mysterious, only periodically flashing into clarity. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Keegan sometimes references a letter Chekhov wrote, describing how grace stems from the ability to complete an action with the fewest number of movements. Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z If he were to see the Roundabout version of "The Cherry Orchard," Chekhov, one of Beckett's precursors, would have said the same thing. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Russia this week launched a nationwide, six-month festival in honor of Chekhov, who lived throughout the Russian empire working as a doctor, including a stint in the Far East island of Sakhalin on the Pacific. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Indeed, we might argue that Chekhov invented the modern novel—and, for that matter, contemporary narrative nonfiction—along the way. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z While Russians revere Chekhov, their relationship with Tolstoy, at least publicly, is slightly more complex. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z But Mr. Dodin elicits almost universally good work from his actors, whose comfort in the distinctive idiom of Chekhov easily transmits itself through the barrier of language. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z The Cherry Orchard Russian aristocrats face the loss of their family’s estate in this Chekhov classic. L.A. theater openings, July 27-Aug. 3: 'Taming of the Shrew' and more 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I’m assuming that, like many interpretations of Chekhov in recent years, this production is meant to be about that old dream-maker, heartbreaker we call time. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Posner doesn’t hide what he’s doing, but the key is that Chekhov has been dead for a century and his plays are in the public domain. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z She had written a book about Chekhov and edited collections of his stories herself. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Yet while I was always absorbed by “Young Chekhov,” I was seldom moved, partly because of the broadness of so much of the acting, especially in “The Seagull.” On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z “Chekhov is in the genes of the Russian actor the way Shakespeare is in the genes of English-speaking actors,” the Maly’s Dodin said by phone from Europe, with a translator assisting. Perspective | The world still comes to Washington’s stage 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The actor and director José Martret said he founded the theatre to produce a version of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov that more conservative theatres did not want. Spain's microtheatres provide lifeline for actors as public subsidies dry up 2013-02-28T17:09:06Z Astute readers will also realize that in keeping with Chekhov’s principle that a gun placed on the stage must go off before the curtain falls, the coronavirus, too, will inevitably find a target. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Here’s a quick sampling of some notable Chekhov’s translations from stage to screen. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Anton Chekhov once mused that if the playwright presents a gun in the first act, it absolutely must go off by the end of the play. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Paying the Price 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Like “Patriots,” this “Seagull” draws from its own well of grief, even if the world of writers and actresses in Chekhov’s play is a long way from Morgan’s power-brokers and politicos. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Photograph: Bettmann/Keystone Tolstoy's condemnation of Chekhov's plays as "worse than Shakespeare" has been thrown back into the spotlight by a new book that draws on memories of the author from his contemporaries. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z It’s not that a night out with Chekhov — or Carey Mulligan, for that matter — must include a lager to limber you up. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Kent’s production was, for me, the star of the National Theater’s Chekhov triptych, a rich and expansive portrait of an entire, prickly social order in czarist Russia. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z While mining for meaning, I can generally trust the principle of “Chekhov’s gun,” that in a work of art, every object and character, every violent act and death, should serve some function. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z If you play Wilson like Shakespeare and like Chekhov at the same time, something surprising happens. August presence: Joe Turner's Come and Gone and back again 2010-06-15T09:32:00Z As Chekhov did not quite say, if an analyst describes an analysand as a gun on Page 4, you better bet your bottom dollar that gun’s going off by Page, oh, 200 and something. The Patient Is Obsessed With Sex. But How Reliable Is Her Therapist? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z While Chekhov’s artist rails against old artistic forms, Mr. Durang’s update celebrates them. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z It might almost be described as an episode of "CSI" written by Chekhov and filmed on the desolate steppes of rural central Turkey, which takes two and a half hours to reach its ambiguous destination. Cannes: Malick's "Tree of Life" wins Palme d'Or 2011-05-22T21:45:00Z Chekhov, it turns out, had a great many affairs, some enduring several years, and most of the women involved with him for any length of time wanted to marry him. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z But the play’s artful, redemptive take on big feelings and small failures, grand ideas and botched gestures, make this a fitting tribute to Chekhov’s masterpiece. A 21st-century “Seagull” 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “No diss to Shakespeare, no diss to Ibsen, to Chekhov, to Shaw; they’re all at the table,” he said. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and ‘Inheritance’ Take Top Honors at Tony Awards 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Long before Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant were writing gallows humor about social anxiety, financial anxiety and frustrated love, Chekhov was churning out plays on the same themes. Kirkland Uncorked, Bite of Seattle, Seafair Pow Wow Days 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z It's curious that Baker's adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" is being done by the Antaeus Company before theatergoers here have been properly introduced to her original works. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Instead, it’s because Aaron Posner is painting the town red with Anton Chekhov again. Who says “Life Sucks”? Chekhov, through Posner, at Theater J 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z As part of the newly formed Hunter Theater Project, Mr. Nelson will direct a new translation of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy with a cast including Jay O. Sanders, Roberta Maxwell and Yvonne Woods. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Its sets of self-sabotagingly tentative lovers bring to mind Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and “Cherry Orchard,” while its depiction of a misunderstood and misunderstanding man of intellect evokes Ibsen’s abrasive doctors and master builders. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Change in the Air 2013-07-12T16:58:10Z Not to be confused with: Anything written by Chekhov. New Edinburgh act of the day: Idle Motion 2011-08-10T13:08:44Z Instead of looting or even building on Chekhov, it is drawn into the immense depth of his writing and becomes, at least fitfully, “The Seagull” itself. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Nabokov recited the names of Tolstoy, Chekhov and other Russian writers, then asked, “But who still remembers the name of a single police chief or censor from St. Petersburg?” He fought a duel, fled Nazi Austria and became Britain’s leading publisher 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The title may also refer to the fact that it took over four decades for Chekhov’s 1878 work to be published. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Like Chekhov, Mr. Margulies is a specialist in rueful regrets and misty glimpses of roads not taken. Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Although the piece is an intriguing collector's item, I can't help feeling that The Glass Menagerie is closer to Chekhov's spirit than this egotistical act of homage. The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z As Ms. Ladensohn arrived in New Haven, Ms. Shepherd-Oppenheim was called to work as a stage manager for two showings of a student adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Wedding Reception.” It Was Obvious from Day 1 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Fresh from a national and international tour with Tim Crouch's The Author, Goode, whose previous productions include a version of Chekhov called Sisters, turns his attention to two exquisite Pinter miniatures. This week's new theatre 2011-02-05T00:05:41Z The real drama in Chekhov, Mr. Gregory said, comes from seeing “what it feels like to live a life.” Andr? Gregory and Louis Malle?s ?Vanya on 42nd Street? 2012-02-24T19:56:07Z “Our Country Friends,” which Random House will release next week, is being lauded as “the great American pandemic novel” and has drawn comparisons to Chekhov, who hovers over the novel like a patron saint. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and another one by Maupassant. Leila Slimani: By the Book 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Sky is showing four of the one-act pieces Chekhov wrote early in his career: The Bear, The Proposal, The Dangers of Tobacco and The Reluctant Tragic Hero. Theatre on TV: Sky Arts leaves BBC in the wings with Chekhov revivals 2010-07-12T12:39:00Z It’s like a plains version of Chekhov spliced with a Mel Brooks movie. Ashton Kutcher's The Ranch: story of a family’s implosion with a laugh track 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The events of Chekhov’s play are not clarified in “There There.” ‘There There’: a baffling, intriguing take on Chekhov 2014-01-11T02:41:38Z In Chekhov, the clinical detachment—that cool, unsparing, astringent gaze—gives way to tenderness, to a sensitivity that is precisely the opposite of dispassion. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Cornel West, a self-described Jane Austen fanatic, brought down the house with a thunderous Saturday morning sermon on Austen’s understanding of human suffering that name-checked Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov and Leo Strauss. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z But people do tend to soliloquize in Chekhov, if not as much as in Shakespeare. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z “The miracle of Chekhov’s writing is that, no matter where it’s performed, it feels local to the culture,” Baryshnikov wrote in an email. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z I’ll be happy to see her again soon, onstage in Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” acting opposite Oscar Isaac in a New York Theater Workshop production due in 2020. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z In “Chronicles: Volume One,” his elliptical 2004 memoir, he claimed that the lyrics had been inspired by Anton Chekhov short stories. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The top prize winner at Cannes, Ceylan's latest comes from a variety of Chekhov short stories. 10 films to see at the Chicago International Film Festival 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z When I read it, what I am most amazed by is how different in style Chekhov the fiction writer is from Chekhov the nonfiction one. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z MON Staged readings of works by George Bernard Shaw and Anton Chekhov, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2011-08-11T00:56:04Z Nina, of course, is the young actress who identifies with the title bird of Chekhov’s play. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z But I felt it moved along at a good pace and, when all is said and done, it is still Chekhov - rambling with lots of talk and drink and emotion. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z “The morning after I opened in Chekhov’s ‘The Sea Gull,’ ” Ms. Stuart remembered, “I signed a seven-year contract with Universal.” Gloria Stuart, Actress, Dies at 100 2010-09-27T18:41:00Z Chekhov’s characters cavort in dachas, while Beckett’s take up residence in trash cans — but they all feel the stifling dread and purposelessness of existence. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z None of that matters, though, for she was, and remains, among the sharpest of all short fiction writers, an author with the grace, the depth, the mastery of a Chekhov or a Joyce. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The result is neither a sendup of Chekhov nor a cranky takedown. ‘Stupid _______ Bird’ Returns to Woolly Mammoth Theater 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Or, because of the good doctor Chekhov’s clinical eye, distanced and funny? Chekhov’s ‘Vanya’ rides again, with uncertain feeling 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z We also have a duty to make the classics available to a new generation and I plan to use the 300-seat studio to explore writers like Ibsen and Chekhov in intimate detail. The Birmingham Rep: the star machine 2013-02-12T19:00:02Z Photograph: akg-images I keep a photograph of Anton Chekhov on my mantelpiece. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z He then began more than 40 years of directing plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Dylan Thomas, as well as musicals and operas. Michael Bogdanov, Shakespearean Stage Director, Dies at 78 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: Robert Day Any production of Chekhov seems to carry a certain number of given factors: there will be silver birches, there will be samovars, there will be parasols. Uncle Vanya ? review 2011-04-07T17:07:53Z Konstantin, the aspiring playwright in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” dreams of inventing “new forms” for the theater. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Not so much Chekhov’s gun as Chekhov’s laundry chute, Chekhov’s rickety treehouse or Chekhov’s remotely operated patio door. The real star of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winner Parasite? The house 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z So it’s a relief to welcome a Russian classic, “The Seagull,” first presented in 1896 by Anton Chekhov, who died nearly a half-century before Putin was even born. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z “Chekhov’s First Play” surely felt much bolder and fresher when it was new. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Presented as a traditional chronological play, “O Jardim” might seem little more than secondhand Chekhov. ‘Cineastas’ and ‘O Jardim’ at Under the Radar 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “The subtext of that is it’s O.K. to try to be Anton Chekhov, and if no one tries to be, no one will be.” Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The deeper disappointment lies in how much of Chekhov’s subtle and comic characterization is lost. A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The small company has always celebrated textually rich plays by the likes of McPherson, Anton Chekhov, Horton Foote and Eugene O’Neill. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre Numerous stories anticipate the moral ambiguity of Chekhov's mature work, in particular "A Singular Occurrence". A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z Ibsen, Chekhov, Goldsmith, Strindberg and Schiller all received medical training, and you could argue that both disciplines involve careful performance rituals and a degree of flamboyant mystification. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z And yet even this inconvenience seems somehow in keeping with Chekhov’s dramatic means. Theater Review: ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Adapted by Annie Baker, at Soho Rep 2012-06-18T02:00:00Z But they too speak in what is likely to sound like enigmatic gibberish to anyone who isn’t thoroughly familiar with Chekhov’s “Seagull,” the play that inspired this performance piece. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z How about that big vat of acid? It was kind of like Chekhov’s gun. 'Orphan Black' co-creator answers all your finale questions, teases season 4 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Just when the flurry of Chekhov revivals seemed to be abating, just when I was longing for someone to take on Ibsen instead, an unmissable occasion presents itself. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z A 2003 production of Three Sisters was the last full-length Chekhov on British TV. What's TV's problem with theatre? 2013-03-20T18:31:19Z We read Chekhov’s “In the Cart” with him, line by line. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Sensitive, moody and a bit ridiculous, Konstantin isn’t exactly a mouthpiece for the great Russian author, although Chekhov was himself out to innovate and reform. Review: A Star Director Takes a Back Seat in ‘The Seagull’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In a sense, he has been preparing for Chekhov since 2010, when he first appeared in a production by Richard Nelson. Jay O. Sanders on How an ‘Oak Tree’ Became Uncle Vanya 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov died in 1904, when film was still in its infancy. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “I was doing a scene from ‘Twelfth Night,’ I was doing ‘La Ronde,’ and then I was doing a cabaret number and something from Chekhov. Patricia Clarkson, Stealth Weapon of Choice 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z Chekhov's gets a radical revamp at the Young Vic - in one scene, the cast bursts into a singalong of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Theatre review of 2012 2012-12-28T07:52:36Z That two leading English dramatists turned in such close succession to a minor work disowned by its creator illustrates the British hunger for more Chekhov. Why Chekhov has never been busier 2013-03-20T13:26:32Z Who had the bright idea to let Karam massacre the great Chekhov? Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Anton Chekhov is my favourite short story writer. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z At a moment in New York theater when adventurous young artists are taking their Chekhov very personally, Ms. Satter manages to be the most strictly personal of all. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z Yet the intimate, American style of those productions turns out to suit Chekhov’s great drama of Russian disappointment just as admirably. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The previous one, in 2018, was a towering adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s epic novel “Infinite Jest”; before that he tackled works by Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and William Carlos Williams. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Li's non-judgmental tone is reminiscent of Chekhov, as is her willingness to immerse herself without trace in a diverse array of characters. A quick look at 2010 in short stories 2010-12-30T09:00:05Z Actually, to make sense of this production from Ms. Satter’s Half Straddle company, you probably need to have made a study of Chekhov’s life and letters too. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z But neither of them had any compunction about returning to Chekhov, first at the Sydney Theater Company and now again on Broadway through March 19. Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “The number of people who really know Chekhov is much smaller than theater people tend to think,” Posner says. It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Meryl and I at one point said, “This tone is something between Chekhov and the Marx Brothers.” Simon Helberg Trades His ‘Big Bang’ Geek for Meryl Streep 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z And then we said: ‘Why don’t we just ask her if she’s interested? She’s a Chekhov expert; why would we try to find someone just like her when we could get her?’ Backstage: For director, a crash course in religion The Chekhov adaptation, Sons without Fathers, continues at the Belgrade in Coventry. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-26T13:42:00Z That was Posner’s flippant, frisky response to Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” breezily updated and theatrically ripped in modern directions. Who says “Life Sucks”? Chekhov, through Posner, at Theater J 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z That moment brings to mind a similar one from Chekhov’s “Seagull,” not accidentally. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z It’s doubtful that President Trump, were he to catch a revival of “The Three Sisters” one weekend in Palm Beach, would notice any resemblance between himself and Chekhov’s jaded doctor. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “Winter Sleep,” an examination of relations between rich and poor in the Turkish countryside with echoes of Chekhov and Ibsen, is directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and won the top prize at Cannes in May. What to Watch for in the Foreign-Language Race 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z ‘THREE SISTERS’ For months and months, New York Theater Workshop let slip only a few specifics about its revival of this Chekhov play. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z It probably has more to do with Russian theater’s reputation for universalism — the belief that a playwright like Chekhov revealed profound truths about the human condition that went far beyond Russia’s borders. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The performances will be presented June 14-16 by the International Chekhov Festival in Moscow. ArtsBeat: State Department to Back Merce Cunningham Dance Company Tour of Russia 2011-06-07T03:11:18Z British Chekhov tends to offer variations on the realism of Stanislavski. Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-06T17:51:55Z He would, however, like to conduct Verdi’s “La Traviata” — but only with the right team, because he sees it as “a Chekhov play with music.” A New Era Takes Shape at the World’s Opera Capital 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Gessen is a writer of spare sentences; he’s more of a Chekhov than a Nabokov. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The Chekhov parallels are pretty obvious, right down to the sounds of the trees being felled as the play concludes. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z “Chekhov,” she repeated, making the “e” sound like “ee” and the “kh” more guttural. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The party deteriorates, as Chekhov’s parties usually do, and the women separate to contemplate their wasting, wasted lives or hurl themselves naked into a water-filled tank upstage. ‘What If They Went to Moscow?’ Review: Chekhov, Sliced and Spliced 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “The Cherry Orchard” will be one of two Chekhov plays on Broadway next season. Diane Lane to Star in 'The Cherry Orchard' on Broadway 1464-05-26T05:00:00Z The poet and critic Edward Hirsch called him “the Chekhov of contemporary American poetry.” Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2012-09-18T00:04:57Z You could see People as a variation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z But Chekhov’s method, or rather his avoidance of method, seems the polar opposite of Boyd’s enthusiastic embrace of artifice and contrivance. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Chekhov begins The Seagull with one of the heavily expository conversations from which modern dramatists are discouraged but which were standard in 19th-century theatre. How far can you push Chekhov? 2012-11-19T15:11:45Z Photograph: Jim Stephenson At the end of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the house is locked up as the family departs and the thud of cherry trees being cut down can just be heard. Theatre picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z There is a thought now, decades later, that says she was the victim of her time, that she was a wistful actor who wanted to play Chekhov or O’Neill. ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’: the story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z And these books, though not Chekhov, offer a lot of insight in this department. The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Kolia, like Chekhov, is someone women find very attractive and again, like Chekhov, Kolia finds it emotionally impossible to commit to marriage or even an enduring relationship. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z What’s left is a vaguely philosophical mood, the drama class seriousness of someone who read Chekhov for the first time. Review: In ‘The Night Eats the World,’ Zombie Apocalypse Now, Again 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z We see the onstage action from the side, then on a video monitor in the green room, observing the movement of props and bodies rather than absorbing the movement of Chekhov’s drama. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z As well as looking for the next generation of dramatists, it’s also offering the classics, such as this Radio 4-ish selection, comprising Sophocles’s Oedipus Cycle, plus three evergreen plays each from Chekhov and Ibsen. The Making of a Massacre and canned laughter – podcasts of the week 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z With so many Chekhov adaptations on the market, it’s fair to wonder whether the Dramatists Guild requires playwrights to crank them out as a condition of membership. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z As the title implies, this is a memory-play seen through the eyes of Chekhov's discontented novelist. The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z It made me think that that might be the way to get to know Shakespeare, to get him together with Chekhov and maybe Martin Scorsese and listen to them gossip about actors. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Each one finds the individuality that Chekhov, with uncanny sympathy and sly gallantry, imparted to his female characters. Review: In ‘The Seagull,’ a Great Play, a Great Cast and Yet ... 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z It centers on three middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters who are uneasily negotiating with age. Review: Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia' a zany joy 2013-03-15T03:01:06Z As in this lovely soliloquy, Mr. Posner’s play is at its most trenchant and funny when it doesn’t just collapse the distance between Chekhov and today, but also encourages us to forget Chekhov entirely. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z These adaptations are fine by me; so are Michael Frayn's excellent translations of Chekhov, which don't try to improve on the original. Lost in translation: why have we declared war on foreign dramatists? 2010-09-01T11:32:00Z “We need new forms!” was the cry 125 years ago of would-be playwright Konstantin in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” Perspective | This prestigious New York theater has an unlikely season coming. All of the titles are TBA. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The gallery of characters allows Kushner a Chekhovian varnish: Rome’s Empty even reminds the others, in imitation of a Chekhov heroine, that it is important that they keep on working. Kushner’s ‘Guide’: Long, gabby and intelligent I was lucky enough to see Mr. Hare’s version, called “Platonov,” in August, as part of the three-play marathon “Young Chekhov,” directed by Jonathan Kent at the National Theater in London. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Mr. Friel, who died in 2015, had been compared to Chekhov, with his gentle humor and reflective, subtle writing. Review: A Minor Brian Friel Play, With 2 Major Performances 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z “My Golden Days” is a cinematic Pinterest, not Chekhov but check-off, in which the characters’ traits, experiences, and feelings are merely asserted and catalogued, not developed but simply tacked to the screen. Everything That Is Suffocating About French Film, in One French Film 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z She has performed serious plays by Ibsen, Chekhov and Shakespeare; inhabited formidable characters like Eleanor Roosevelt and Calamity Jane; and led the National Endowment for the Arts through the culture wars. Don’t Tell, but Jane Alexander Is Also a Comedian 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Mary Gaitskill’s first book of nonfiction — a cool and formidable collection of essays, reviews and other matter — takes its title from a sentence in Anton Chekhov’s short story “Gooseberries.” Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Two examples from Chekhov’s writings about Sakhalin Island serve as conduits or portals to a deeper point. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Why are we suddenly up to our samovars with Chekhov in general and “Uncle Vanya” in particular? It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Friel renders Turgenev's delicate, naturalistic comedy in strong primary colours, which accords with Kent's philosophy – shown by a previous production of Chekhov's Ivanov – of playing the revered Russians in uninhibitedly emotional style. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z Think of Chekhov, with his patients and his crowds of dependent relatives, whose living room became such a public space that he had to put up no smoking signs. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z Like a character out of Lermontov or Chekhov, he gazes at the world with ever-dyspeptic eyes. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z For many, this is the most perfect film of any Chekhov play, maybe because it doesn’t feel much like a film at all. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z In all honesty, I was much happier with “The Adults” before the Chekhov connection fully asserted itself, which happened in the last third of this 90-minute piece. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z These protesters did not think the princess should be on her way to see some stuffy Chekhov drama by a peer of the realm. Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z It's like the Chekhov play where the dead person is the central character. Michael Fassbender, future superstar 2011-03-08T23:01:00Z Chekhov meant a serious comedy, like any great Shakespearean comedy, a play with an optimistic vision of the future. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Moreover, reading Chekhov, say, can change people's personalities, and make them better at "theory of mind" and social reasoning. Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z Season after season we get the same overdone classics by Ibsen, Shakespeare, Chekhov and Williams. My theatrical busman's holiday in London: what am I missing? 2010-08-16T08:35:00Z "He was bedridden due to illness," Chekhov told Gnedich, according to an extract from Sekirin's documentary biography published in the New York Review of Books. Tolstoy thought Chekhov 'worse than Shakespeare' 2011-07-11T14:28:32Z Written when Chekhov was 18, or 19, or 20 — that fact is uncertain, too — it’s a stylistic mishmash that would run five or six hours, staged whole. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Look ahead at Soho for Dan Rebellato's Chekhov in Hell, which comes in from the Plymouth Drum, which itself is still playing host to Told by an Idiot's And the Horse You Rode In On. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-04T18:07:32Z When, post-Ailey, I returned to the relative oasis of the Chinatown Y, it was with some of the hauteur of the Broadway veteran who has been asked to perform Chekhov monologues at a Cracker Barrel. Zoom In, Zumba Away 2012-01-11T23:45:24Z It seems like a violation of Chekhov’s gun rule to put Naomi Campbell in the first act and not have her throw a phone at someone in the third. TV Review: 'Empire' Ends Its First Season With a Fervid Finale 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Chekhov doesn't judge his characters, because they go about with the same hopes and disappointments that we do. Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z Of course, while it's safe to say that all works of dictator literature are to some extent fictional, few tyrants have tackled the art of Chekhov and Maupassant. Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z Chekhov’s exquisitely self-contained plays are unlikely candidates for breaking the fourth wall between performers and audiences. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z The effect of identifying the women in Chekhov's life is powerfully revelatory: his love affairs become suddenly more real and a different Chekhov emerges. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z At the end there’s an onstage duel in which only those who know their Chekhov can have a clue who’s fighting whom, let alone why. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z It's for her performances in Chekhov and Shakespeare that McCrory is most admired: in 2006 she was nominated for an Olivier award for her lovelorn Rosalind in As You Like It. Helen McCrory: 'Attack yourself ? don't get lazy' 2010-06-01T21:00:00Z Mizinova wanted marriage, but eventually realised that, for Chekhov, lasting mutual happiness was either something he didn't believe in or saw as too great a threat to his freedom. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Chekhov was a doctor; he had his first major lung haemorrhage in 1884 so he knew what was wrong with him. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z But Moukarzel also expounds on the themes of the play — like private property and the ravenousness of the rich — and laments that he cut so many characters from Chekhov’s script. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Danner aside, the attractive cast members register as a little sheepish, as if self-conscious about trying to make ersatz Chekhov sound like the real thing while maintaining the rhythms of laugh-track banter. Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet his influences included Anton Chekhov and Williams for their nuanced characters and baseline melancholy, and he generally accepted being associated with the absurdist theater. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He was also devoted to his Russian-born maternal grandfather, who read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov in the back of his candy store. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But that first opera, “Three Sisters,” based on Chekhov, became a popular success. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z When the director Igor Golyak began working on a staging of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” he had an idea in mind. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z One reviewer spoke of the composer's "refrigeration of Chekhov's Three Sisters into icy abstraction". Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Tolstoy, Gogol and Chekhov believed in many different things, but, most consistently of all, they believed in storytelling and the fine resources of the fiction-maker's art. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z It is wholly emblematic of Mr. Posner’s raw, theatrically audacious version of this Chekhov classic, which is being presented in New York in a viscerally well-acted production from the Pearl Theater Company. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z But Mr. Posner integrates them with Chekhov’s drama in a way that makes us view the original with fresh, startled eyes. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z These questions are fundamental not just to the Greeks but to Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett and everyone writing in their wake. The inventive 'Love and Information' reminds us that you can't Google wisdom 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Chekhov wrote in a naturalistic style; Ms. Catlett prefers a supernatural one. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Under such circumstances, knowing that his life would be short, perhaps Chekhov felt it was more honest not to encourage ideas of a lasting union. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z I have never felt a particular desire to learn Russian, wonderful though it would be to read, say, Chekhov in the original language. Review: In ‘Brodsky/Baryshnikov,’ One Friend Recalls Another 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Will indoor dining in an early date scene seem like Chekhov’s gun, a trigger the viewer expects to be pulled with a cough later on? For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z This love song to naturalism makes a case for Chekhov as one of the few playwrights who can somehow capture life as lived experience — its boredom, its disappointments, its fragile hopes and giddy late-night interludes. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z I have a couple Chekhov favorites, but there’s one called “Peasants,” where a sick guy from Moscow goes to the country to return to his people and is entirely unsuccessful and eventually dies. Robbie Fulks on how not to be “a guy in his 50s singing about sex or good times or even the opposite, about married contentedness” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Even Moukarzel and Kidd’s decision not to give the Chekhov play by a proper title is significant — because of that other meaning of title: legal ownership. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Singleton once described August Wilson as his Chekhov. Mourning John Singleton, a Guardian of Black Cinema 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z "A Castle in Italy," whose mix of family drama and almost slapstick comedy charmed some viewers and bemused others, is a tragicomedy partly inspired by the plays of Anton Chekhov. Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes 2013-05-21T17:46:11Z Vroman's in Pasadena: At 10:30 a.m., there will be a crafting workshop, and at 2 p.m., the Impro Theater will perform Chekhov Unscripted. California Bookstore Day goes national Saturday 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Army Ranger in charge of a UN military team so bland they make the average video game NPC feel like Chekhov characters by comparison. "Monster Hunter" review: Jovovich and Jaa team up for a virtually unwatchable video game movie 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z On the contrary, when Ira Gershwin wrote in a song lyric about “more clouds of gray than any Russian play could guarantee,” he was surely thinking of Chekhov. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Chekhov renders some of its scenes and speeches adroitly, but its construction falters, particularly in the final act. Ivanov – review 2012-11-12T18:01:24Z At the Young Vic the cast are working with a new English-language version of Chekhov's play by Simon Stephens, currently the toast of Broadway for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Breathing new life into Cherry Orchard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “Suffering, Inc.” is about the misery of office work — but every word was written by Chekhov, then cut and pasted by Pony World Theatre to make a gallows-humor drama where “Uncle Vanya” meets “The Office.” To go do this week: ‘Ghostbusters,’ Elizabeth George, VR at sculpture park 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Stories about suicide are to "In Treatment" what guns are to Chekhov. "In Treatment" recap: Season 3 begins 2010-10-26T13:01:00Z These riffs on classics by Mary Shelley and Anton Chekhov, part of the Performance Space 122's Coil Festival of experimental theater, are both by Brooklyn troupes with their own defiantly scrawled signatures. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z It was true to the spirit, if not the letter, of Chekhov, and incidentally contained in Vanessa Kirby's Masha another of the year's most haunting female performances. Olivier awards nominations: the ones that got away 2013-03-26T14:10:37Z It's always an anxious moment when Arkadina comes on in Chekhov's The Seagull. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z His version of the Chekhov play “Three Sisters,” which he set in Nigeria during the Biafran war, opened at the National Theater in London. This Basketball-Loving Poet Resists Categorization 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Shteyngart deftly pivots from this hilarious, tragicomic parody to a mood closer to the wistful, elegiac tones of his beloved Russian master, Chekhov. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “It is hot, the sun is shining, the windows of my bedroom are wide open — and those of my soul,” Anton Chekhov wrote while living in Nice and finishing “The Three Sisters.” A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The play would not have given Chekhov many worries, but it certainly enhanced Robin's understanding of the playwright's craft. Robin Thornber obituary 2010-12-12T18:08:00Z What makes the image memorable is that, because of the relaxed nature of the shot, we gain a glimpse of the private Chekhov. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z “The Seagull” doesn’t seem like the kind of play that would tickle your funny bone, and yet Chekhov himself considered it a comedy. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Trevor’s talents often drew comparisons to Chekhov and to Joyce—Graham Greene called his book “Angels at the Ritz” “one of the best collections, if not the best, since James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners.’ ” William Trevor in The New Yorker 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Posner created faithful literary adaptations for years before his breakout play “Stupid … Bird,” an irreverent contemporary take on Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” which L.A. The 99-Seat Beat: Aaron Posner, Anna Ziegler and the return of Tim Dang 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z I saw an exquisite production of “Twelfth Night” five years ago from the Chekhov International Theater Festival. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: The Writing's on the Wall 2011-11-10T17:00:41Z Now it is venturing into classic territory with a four-week Chekhov season. Theatre on TV: Sky Arts leaves BBC in the wings with Chekhov revivals 2010-07-12T12:39:00Z Jock Culture glorifies the young, the strong and the beautiful, and Lipsyte, the would-be Chekhov, gets the tragic implications. Former New York Times sportswriter pens memoir 2011-05-02T11:35:11Z Sometimes you just want to lose yourself in the anonymity of an audience, whether at a football match or a play by Chekhov. A ghost in the library 2011-07-04T20:45:01Z Now he lets this influence ripen with a new version of Chekhov’s comic drama about an aristocratic family undergoing a crisis of love and real estate. Theater Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z After their arrival in the United States they banned English from their household and fed the newly renamed Gary a diet of Chekhov, Turgenev and Tolstoy in the original Russian. A Wayward Son Checks in With Mother Russia 2010-10-24T23:06:00Z Nora sounds like a dreamy Chekhov character when she holds forth on how the patriarchal institution of marriage will be obsolete in the next 20 to 30 years. Ibsen's radical 1879 play about women's equality gets a 2017 sequel: Lucas Hnath's 'A Doll's House, Part 2' 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Chekhov observed, “When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can’t be cured.” Books of The Times: ‘Oddly Normal,’ by John Schwartz 2012-12-12T20:47:48Z Anton was for Anton Chekhov, the "poet of loneliness," and "Joseph" for Joseph Conrad, who penned a motto Rushdie tried to follow: "I must live till I die." Salman Rushdie dismisses latest death threat 2012-09-19T16:58:59Z Students of Chekhov should also take note of the gun on the mantelpiece. Cannes 2013: Les Salauds – first look review 2013-05-21T17:05:19Z The idea that our most important and exciting experiences occur in private, in secret, Batuman tells us, is from Chekhov, whose ghost presides benevolently over the book. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The acclaimed writer pairs these essays with short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol to offer a master class in the mechanics of fiction. New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George Saunders 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z He drew crowds and received enthusiastic local press but remained what Chekhov once said was the most intolerable kind of person: a provincial celebrity. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan – review 2012-11-28T08:00:01Z Never one where Chekhov’s talent is matched, nuance for nuance, idiosyncrasy for idiosyncrasy, by every soul on stage. It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Coogan is soon to appear on Sky Arts in Chekhov's On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are reunited... to do lunch 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z We read what Selin reads — Pushkin, Babel, Freud, Chekhov and, less happily for her, Martin Amis — and watch her ruthlessly shake down her life, comparing it to the lives she encounters in fiction. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z There is much under the hood of “Drive My Car”– art, grief, friendship, Chekhov. ‘Lost Daughter,’ ‘Licorice Pizza’ top AP’s best 2021 films 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Beijing and New York are both staging "The Cherry Orchard", Chekhov's final play, which describes the lives of a group of aristocrats in the wake of the serfs' liberation. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Contemporary presentations of Chekhov tend to err on the side of either slapstick or pathos, with acting that brings to mind a sweaty vaudeville turn or a Method-style roll in the deep. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z “We would go to the Golden Nugget bar after the show and all these miners and their families and friends would be talking about Chekhov and Tennessee Williams and Stephen Sondheim,” Patinkin said. Friday Night Footlights: How Theater Bonds a Colorado Town 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Anton Chekhov wrote his greatest plays in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, but they are still doing extraordinary business in the 21st. Chekhov fans spoilt for choice 2012-11-07T01:46:26Z Ten years ago, on a panel at the PEN World Voices Festival, in New York, she said, “I’d like to remember the great Chekhov, and his play ‘The Three Sisters.’ Nonfiction Wins a Nobel 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The picture of enervated, early-20th-century landed gentry seems intended to conjure up Chekhov. Betrayals and Barristers: Broadway’s New Dramas 2013-10-29T09:45:58Z However, in Bella and her peers’ case—perhaps this is also the case of Chekhov’s young correspondent—a foreign fairy tale may carry a magic that offsets reality. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Playwright and short-story genius Anton Chekhov could hypodermically inject an item so iconographic, so reverberant with meaning, that its presence almost recounts a whole character. Sacred Carnality 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Chekhov’s medical training had left him spiritually depleted. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Durang’s gentle parody of the work of Anton Chekhov doesn’t skewer, but pokes fun with the craftsmanship of someone who knows how to please a crowd. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z One almost wishes that Williams had gone the whole hog and totally rewritten and updated Chekhov's original. The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z Chekhov calls it a comedy, the original production was a complete catastrophe, and the audience laughed at it in completely the wrong way. 'Bitty' to Chekhov 2011-06-15T07:40:28Z Theatergoers who know Chekhov’s dictum about guns — you know, writers shouldn’t introduce them if they’re not going to shoot them — need not fear for their lives, however. Review: ‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z I would like to do some Chekhov and Strindberg. Marie Mullen in 'Beauty Queen of Leenane': Daughter and mother, victim and villain 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z In a note preceding the text Williams paid tribute to Chekhov as a “quiet and delicate writer whose huge power was always held in restraint,” and acknowledged that he himself possessed “quite different qualities.” Theater Review: ‘The Notebook of Trigorin’ by Tennessee Williams at the Flea 2013-05-09T02:00:02Z Her lodestar is Chekhov and “the values by which Chekhov’s good characters are ruled: patient, habitual work and sensible, calm behavior.” Janet Malcolm, a Withering Critic, in a Nostalgic Key 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z As a character, Trump falls outside the Russian playwright’s repertoire, but it’s fascinating to consider how Chekhov might have balanced sympathy for Trump the man with satire for Trump the political cartoon. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z When I first heard about Aaron Posner's play "Stupid ... Bird," I rolled my eyes not so much at the unprintable title but at the prospect of yet another winking update of Chekhov. A Times critic looks forward to a bright future backlit by a decade of brilliant theater 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Judah's lively account of his remote adventures forms the most enjoyable part of Fragile Empire, and puts me in mind of Chekhov's famous 1890 journey to Sakhalin Island. Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah – review 2013-06-27T11:00:02Z Yet each of the play’s chapters has moments that are classic Ayckbourn in their comic sadness, reminding us of this playwright’s affinity for the modern theater’s greatest psychologist of the human paradox, Anton Chekhov. Review: ‘A Brief History of Women,’ an Alan Ayckbourn Comedy of Tragedies 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The play, which takes characters and themes from Chekhov and sets them in present day Pennsylvania, will start life at the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey before jumping to Lincoln Center Theater in October. Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce aim for stage 2012-06-29T18:16:08Z What Chekhov found there was a community even more depraved than the one he had left behind—an island society on the edge of sanity, law, and self-discipline. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z "This is Chekhov refreshed and reimagined - and acted with total lack of inhibition," . Matthew Kelly cast in The Seagull 2012-09-17T15:33:45Z Somebody should grab this team and set them on to an actual Chekhov as soon as possible. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z In the final act of “Babe,” all the Chekhov’s guns go off. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The reason for the dull lulls in Uncle Vanya is the assumption of director and designer that Chekhov demands an elaborate specificity of setting. Scene changes – the traffic jams of theatre 2012-11-13T13:33:09Z The screenplay was by Clifford Odets, America’s chief inheritor of the dramatic tradition of Anton Chekhov, and in that one line, he epitomized the lesson of his master. That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z This grounds the show in a historical reality — Baryshnikov portrays the playwright in the digital version, and Hecht pops up as Chekhov’s wife and his mistress — while nodding to our troubled current circumstances. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Aaron Posner is known for reconceiving classic plays — such as Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” — in contemporary and imaginative ways. Now the playwright has remade Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” as “District Merchants,” set in the U.S. Essential Arts & Culture: Activists vs. art galleries, a battle over an alleged Pollock, Hammer gala 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Though Dylan claimed in his autobiography, Chronicles Vol 1, that the songs on Blood on the Tracks were inspired by the stories of Chekhov, I'm not altogether sure we should believe him. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-01-20T22:28:01Z "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it," Anton Chekhov wrote in 1889. "Game of Thrones" takes wing 2011-06-20T12:21:00Z Still, “This Was the End” will reward a thoroughgoing knowledge of the Chekhov original and may baffle the unfamiliar. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z And then it’s like Chekhov where their lives are falling apart. Misery and Megalomania: How David Adjmi Became a Playwright 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Nothing happens in the plays of Anton Chekhov. Review: In ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ the Myopia of an Aristocratic Family 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “So you take Pushkin out of the libraries? You cancel Tschaikovsky concerts? You don’t perform Chekhov?” At Cooper Union, a Russian Design Show Caught in a Political Crossfire 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z His stage career has continued, too: Six years ago, he made his Broadway acting debut in a revival of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Harold Perrineau Finds His Way 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Under most circumstances I’d run a country mile to avoid being trapped in a room with the desperate characters now inhabiting the Sydney Theater Company’s production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” at the Kennedy Center here. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z Dating from 1933, like On the Rocks, it was about a travelling theatre company who both transform and undermine a small town by offering them by a progressive diet of Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg. Canadian theatre comes into its own 2011-08-01T15:35:18Z Like Chekhov’s stories, they achieve an artistic beauty that surpasses many richer, more sweeping visions by virtue of their unerring sensitivity within a narrower range. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the company’s Monday Night Open Rehearsal Series, when the company explores a single play, will be devoted this November to Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” ArtsBeat: Classic Stage Season to Begin With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Allegro’ 2014-03-06T21:46:18Z Chekhov's characters are adept at laughing through tears. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In “The Seagull,” Chekhov was one of the first great writers to subvert a prevailing romantic formula of theatrical villainy and heroism. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z “I am an adapter. I don’t make stuff up wholesale. The fact that I am borrowing from Chekhov lets me operate with a master in the room.” It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In “The Mood Room,” that pointed physicality anchors her storytelling, which also mixes in spoken text from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and soap operas, as well as an electronic score by Holly Herndon. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In the foreword to “The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis,” published this month, the critic Michael Wood invokes Henry James, Henry Fielding, Chekhov, Sterne, Nabokov and Calvino — all in two paragraphs. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z He compared the plot to Chekhov, and wrote that the film “goes down as easily as a sip of the plum wine the sisters brew and yet leaves the viewer both sated and intoxicated.” What’s on TV: ‘Sick Note’ and ‘Vice’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z When Larissa described it as Chekhov’s most religious, or at least most spiritual, play, I hesitated. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In 1892 Chekhov was 32 and entering the years of his mature fame and success. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Durang agrees: “When people talk about the play, they don’t talk about Chekhov much, frankly. They say things like, ‘It was so funny,’ or ‘We liked when the siblings made peace.’ It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z I felt like I could play Chekhov, any character in Chekhov and Shakespeare in Arthur Miller, in August Wilson. Viola Davis: 'Diversity Is Not a Trending Topic' 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z A photograph of Mizinova and Chekhov at the end of their protracted dalliance in 1897 shows that she has put on weight. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z He comes to choose “Joseph Anton” by combining the names of two of his favorite writers, Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z The far-from-happy works of Anton Chekhov seem right at home in a modern office -- a hive of heartbreak, loneliness and greed. World's worst office, 1 good play 2011-11-14T22:28:06Z His influence on the form is as great as that of his near-contemporary Anton Chekhov. A brief survey of the short story 2011-03-09T09:41:46Z But mostly he translates the bad behavior of Chekhov’s characters to snark instead of smut. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Chekhov often contributed to a literary journal called “Oskolki” — the title translates to “Splinters,” which is a fair description of his contributions: jagged, piercing pieces, some little more than intricate jokes. A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z As the title might suggest, the list includes various productions of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” Review: ‘HOUSE’ Nods to Chekhov, but the References Don’t Stop There 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z The company produced the likes of Chekhov, Coward and Williams for almost two decades. Olympia Dukakis, Oscar Winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ Dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The production reunites Scott Thomas with Ian Rickson who has directed her in several other acclaimed productions, including Chekhov's The Seagull at the Royal Court for which she won an Olivier award. Kristin Scott Thomas electrifies critics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “Sam told us the first day of rehearsal that Chekhov is never more thrilling than sitting in your living room reading it aloud,” said Mr. Birney, who plays the title role. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z Chekhov's supple artistry — at once invisible and palpably present — is so inextricably tied to his fearless yet humane worldview that copying his example would be as impossible as counterfeiting fingerprints. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s funny and often snarky; in one slightly crude line, Moukarzel sounds like a sports broadcaster giving a play-by-play of a rare Chekhov move. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z He's vague about his next project — he's looking at "a few films, maybe a Chekhov play" — but clearly enjoys looking back at his time with Henry. Interview: Kevin Kline connects to the spirit of 'The Extra Man' 2010-08-05T20:49:00Z In his “Apple Family Plays and the Gabriels,” the playwright Richard Nelson offered a melancholy hat tip to Anton Chekhov. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z It's a riff-off, not a rip-off, of an amalgamation of Chekhov and all his works. Scott Foley brings real-life experience to 'The Country House' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z His first Chekhov adaptation, the 2013 riff on “The Seagull” at Woolly Mammoth that he titled “Stupid F---ing Bird,” is being produced across the country. After firing and controversy, Roth and Theater J moving on 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “Stupid F---ing Bird” was his modernist take on Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” and one of several he has remodeled out of the Russian playwright’s canon. Alexander Hamilton had his life turned into a musical. Now, John Quincy Adams gets his turn, in a new play. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z And, as in Chekhov, these characters are all revealed to be implacable egotists. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z During this period she also performed onstage with the Old Vic, in roles including Nina in Chekhov’s “The Seagull” and Belle in Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!” Nova Pilbeam, an Early, and Brief, Star for Hitchcock, Dies at 95 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Edward’s wife, Constance, is still rightly honored as the pioneering translator of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Then it's Chekhov's short stories in a bilingual edition, starting, naturally, with "The Lady With the Dog". Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z The characters are named after Chekhov’s figures because their late parents were professors and community theater enthusiasts. It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Like Chekhov's orchard, it had been rendered obsolete by a fast-changing world. Da Vinci v dreamthinkspeak at Somerset House 2013-01-29T07:00:03Z Chekhov and Tolstoy actually liked each other pretty well. Review: Chekhov and Tolstoy Reunited in ‘Love Stories’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z And because Mr. Sanders has been a much-employed actor on stage and screen for some 40 years, he knows that oaks are rarely cast as the neurotic and cerebral title character of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” Jay O. Sanders on How an ‘Oak Tree’ Became Uncle Vanya 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The memoir’s title, cobbled together from the first names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov, is the alias he used while under the fatwa. Q. and A.: Salman Rushdie 2012-09-18T16:49:30Z An epigraph from Chekhov — “Most people live their real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy” — alerts the reader to the book’s appealing curiosity about people’s hidden selves. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Each director has to decide how to interpret the mysterious sound Chekhov describes in Act Two: "It is the mournful sound of a huge breaking string… it is overwhelmingly sad." Breathing new life into Cherry Orchard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z This starkness throws into sharp relief Chekhov's questions about artificiality, acting and the future of the theatre. The Seagull – review 2013-04-20T23:05:42Z It’s one of many sharp lines from the mind of a dramatist who knows his Chekhov up and down. Review | Sometimes, no sisters are better than ‘Three’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z You would think that was it for Chekhov, but next year one of the most luminous of young directors, Blanche McIntyre, is also directing The Seagull for Headlong. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z As is always the case with Target Margin — which has devoted earlier seasons to disassembling and reconstructing Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein and Yiddish theater — telling tales is a communal enterprise. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Chekhov once wrote that you need to be a god to distinguish success from failure in life without making a mistake. Book review: ‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure,’ edited by C.D. Rose David Mitchell: By the Book The author of “Cloud Atlas” would like to drink dodgy Crimean wine with Chekhov and play a few rounds of Anglo-Russian Scrabble. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z "Tell me what you want," said Anton Chekhov, "and I will tell you what manner of man you are." John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z That special guy: Anton Chekhov, a father of modern drama and one of the most acute chroniclers of the human condition in its brilliant, broken, awkward variety. From Russia, With Despair, Self-Loathing and Love 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z I had gone through what I had gone through in college and I never thought that I would get to go onstage to do Chekhov, much less play her. Hari Nef and Parker Posey: Two ‘It’ Girls Whose ‘Humanity Peeks Through’ 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Like Chekhov, she fuses wit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are few human weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion and understanding. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z The sisters also starred together in a riotous and emotionally raw 1990 revival of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Queen's Theatre, directed by Robert Sturua of the Rustaveli theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia. Lynn Redgrave obituary 2010-05-03T18:40:00Z He thought that all writers were Mexicans, despite some strange names — Dumas, Chekhov, Dos Passos. Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z So many contemporary productions of Chekhov wind up feeling as unnaturally rigid and posturing as those posers before the camera. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z Seven essays on stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol; adapted from a class Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Assuming that the multiple dragons on this show are an armory's worth of Chekhov's guns, these women are not destined to help each other. "House of the Dragon" and the question of queens 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z This isn’t Chekhov, though, and those guns never go off. ‘Man Cave’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the American Night 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z He admires Beckett and Chekhov and Cather, thinks Camus had a “dreary mind” and that, next to Woolf, Joyce “seems tricky and vulgar and cheap.” Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z “This one is ostensibly stranger,” says Iuzzolino, “but bit by bit, you go, My God – this is like Chekhov.” 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Together they appeared in classics by Shaw and Chekhov; in dramas by Tennessee Williams and Eugène Ionesco; and, perhaps most notably, in offbeat comedies by Murray Schisgal. Anne Jackson, Stage Star With Her Husband, Eli Wallach, Dies at 90 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But as much as he was encumbered by the diseased state of his body, Chekhov was repulsed by the diseased state around him—by the sickness of the body politic. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Chekhov appears to be sitting at a cluttered desk or a table, resting his head on his left hand. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z There were elegiac notes in Richard Eyre's superb production of The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, but it was mainly to Chekhov that directors turned to show the waning of an era. The best theatre of 2012: Susannah Clapp's choice 2012-12-15T21:00:02Z His great dream was not to become president, but write a biography of Chekhov. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z A writer, it has been observed by practitioners as great as Tolstoy and Chekhov, can invent anything but human nature. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z His innovative approach to adapting Shakespeare, Chekhov and other classics proved popular and the company moved to its own quarters in 2000, with the city funding spacious new premises in 2008. Russian director Fomenko dies, 80 2012-08-09T16:44:41Z Now and again, American productions will capture the ironic mirth embedded in such Chekhov masterworks as "The Seagull" and "The Cherry Orchard." 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z In this free-form adaptation, the students at an elite Japanese girls’ school gather each year to perform Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.” ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z As soon as Chekhov’s moon door was introduced, it was only a matter until someone fell through it. These Are the 24 Most Emmy-Worthy "Game of Thrones" Twists 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z That’s typical of Chekhov, for whom understanding the worst of that aggravating and self-destructive collective known as humankind did not exclude embracing it, enjoying it and even loving it. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z His lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, has given him a copy of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, along with a book by Anton Chekhov "for dessert". Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z Such a man emerges in “Anton Chekhov’s The Duel,” a very satisfying and tonally precise English-language adaptation of an 1891 Chekhov novella. | 'Anton Chekhov?s The Duel': Fiona Glascott in Dover Kosashvili?s Adaptation 2010-04-27T21:31:00Z "A Visit to Friends" is intriguing because it was written in 1897 while Chekhov was convalescing in Nice, escaping the Russian winter for the good of his ravaged lungs. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Any Chekhov production worth its weight in rubles understands this. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z She gives an apologetic laugh and cautiously admits she is working on a new play now, as well as directing William Boyd's adaptation of two Chekhov short stories. Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z Anton Chekhov famously labeled his major plays "comedies" — an odd designation, you might think, given how redolent they are with despair, desperation, unrequited love and emotional paralysis. 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z Watching a small, diverse farm over a couple of months beginning in early spring is like watching the machinations of a Chekhov play. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z When he returned to work, it was in an unlikely way, adapting Chekhov’s short story A Misfortune for television. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z "As with Shakespeare, we keep revisiting Chekhov," says James. 'Bitty' to Chekhov 2011-06-15T07:40:28Z When he wasn’t writing, he read Chekhov, played games with his son and took long walks in the countryside, pecking out lines of dialogue on his iPhone. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z She spent the next several years bouncing between jobs, scraping by first as a streetcar conductor and cook who read the Russians — Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov — in her free time. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 Deliberate overtones of Chekhov abound in this period portrait of the discontented members of a 1917 landed gentry family unraveling in the face of personal turmoil and the global ravages of World War I. Sharr White's 'Snow Geese' gets an assured West Coast premiere 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Known mainly in Seattle for his sensitively wrought productions of works by Shakespeare and Chekhov, Langs says “Middletown” speaks to him as he makes his transition to a new community. New director in town finds the poetry in ‘Middletown’ 2013-08-22T21:04:52Z It was critically lauded during its two runs at the National — where his latest work, an adaptation of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” set during the Nigerian civil war, also begins performances on Tuesday. ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ Gives Black Men Control of Their Story 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Here, alongside his co-stars, he’ll pull from Auden, Chekhov, du Maurier and more. Around Town for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And as with Chekhov’s work the style of writing exemplified by Ms. Herzog and Ms. Baker, and Mr. Karam too, provides rich opportunities for both actors and directors. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z In that sense, Chekhov — like Shakespeare — might be said to be close to some people’s idea of God. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Read as many plays as possible, especially by classical writers such as Ibsen, Chekhov and Shakespeare. How to act: stage stars share their acting tips 2012-11-28T19:30:02Z Even doing Chekhov, he brought in more boldface names than the grandest society hostess might manage. Ben Brantley on Mike Nichols 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But the BBC's abject failure is Sky's opportunity; and I think we should raise three cheers for their forthcoming Chekhov season. Theatre on TV: Sky Arts leaves BBC in the wings with Chekhov revivals 2010-07-12T12:39:00Z In its study of loss and loneliness, the play clearly owes a debt to Chekhov. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z Even the best comedies had a certain weight, but that's only to be expected from plays inspired by Chekhov's genre-blurring masterpieces. The year in theater: Drama reigns in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “I’m actually not one of the unhappy characters in Chekhov,” Durang says. It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z “That made me think, the more translations and adaptations of Chekhov we have, the better, the closer we’ll get,” she said. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z If this isn’t “King Lear” or Chekhov, “Harvest” shows the truth of life as it is lived, growing messier and more complicated as the days dwindle and last chances loom. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z The elegiac note in Chekhov, as in Weller's Fishing, springs from a rich sense of life. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z Funding is a factor, as my production company Illuminations found last year when we developed a Chekhov only to see it fold owing to BBC cuts. What's TV's problem with theatre? 2013-03-20T18:31:19Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton Filter's most recent work was a version of Three Sisters that made Chekhov's well-worn play feel as if it was written yesterday. This week's new theatre 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z I reviewed a new translation of Chekhov’s stories and saw for the first time how deeply his work is suffused by his own experience of a pandemic. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Directing Chekhov for Greek theatre and another film with his Dogtooth co-writer. First sight: Yorgos Lanthimos 2010-03-25T23:50:00Z Approaching a window in Trump Tower, like a cursed princess, she gazes onto Fifth Avenue, wondering about Sixth Avenue the way a Chekhov character dreams of Moscow. Meet Julio Torres, the New ‘S.N.L.’ Star No One Sees 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Which makes the bigger impact, Chekhov’s short story “Grief,” a scant three pages, or “The Brothers Karamazov”? Anyone can construct a list along these lines. Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z But when we were thinking about the depth at which the relationships in the play are conceived, it also seemed like Chekhov. August presence: Joe Turner's Come and Gone and back again 2010-06-15T09:32:00Z The story is made up of scattered bits of Chekhov run through a contemporary plot processor. Theater Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ at Lincoln Center 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z And the season opened last week with one of Mr. Pasatieri’s most performed operas, “The Seagull,” with a libretto by the poet and writer Kenward Elmslie, adapted from the Chekhov play. Music Review: Amorous Confusion in Pasatieri?s Adaptation of Chekhov?s Play 2010-09-27T21:44:00Z I was raised on classical theatre, on Shakespeare, Chekhov. Declan Bennett: 'You'd have to be dead not to appreciate the story of Once' 2013-04-06T23:05:32Z Luz balances between the production’s abstract, aural elements and Chekhov’s decontextualized dialogue, which takes on a musical function as well through chanting. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z While working on a book about the actor, the biographer Alexander Larman had a glimpse of screen versions of the Seán O’Casey play Juno and the Paycock, and Chekhov’s work Uncle Vanya. Peter O'Toole less the drunken hell-raiser he made out, says author 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Gentlemen, who remembers how it’s described in Lermontov?” one of the confused parties asks in Chekhov’s “The Duel.” The Pen, the Sword, and the Duel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z He popped up on TV shows like "The Blacklist" and "Hap and Leonard," and recently appeared in Michael Mayer's 2018 film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull." Brian Dennehy, versatile performer in "Tommy Boy," "Death of a Salesman," dead at 81 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z One particularly successful example featured music performed by Möst and actors reading the Chekhov story “Easter Eve.” A musical bridge between past and present 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z There are surely great American productions of Chekhov — “The Cherry Orchard,” this season at Classic Stage Company comes to mind — but here’s a chance to see classical Russian theater by a respected Russian company. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z He finished high school in Boston then studied theater in Moscow — you might say Chekhov is in his bones. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z He remembers when his mother read the first draft of “The Hottest State,” she said, “It’s not Chekhov, but it’s a start.” Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z You can muck up Chekhov or Shakespeare any number of ways and still somehow come out ahead. Review: Getting All Noir and Naughty in ‘The Artificial Jungle’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Admittedly, the verbal blunderings of a comic German seem a touch crude, and at times you feel Turgenev is being treated as the ancestor of Feydeau rather than Chekhov. A Month in the Country 2010-10-01T20:29:00Z But here they are again, fewer than 12 months later, alternating high-octane Austen with a loose-jointed production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” a play notorious for thwarting the most accomplished thespians. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Myths, monsters, punk rock and Anton Chekhov collide at this hallowed festival of performance and experiment. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z This, really, is the nub of “Chekhov’s First Play,” which had its premiere in 2015. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The book takes its name from Mr. Rushdie’s alias while he was in hiding, an amalgamation of the names of favorite authors — Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Maybe someone would recognize him once in a while at the grocery store, and tell him, “Oh! I loved you in that Chekhov play!” Philip Seymour Hoffman: As great as Bogart? 2014-02-03T13:30:00Z It may be unfair to belabor the comparison, but you could plausibly label it Chekhov Lite. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z The gaze is unsparing and penetrating, clear-eyed, clinical—a word used often in association with Chekhov. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z After he returned to Hong Kong, he encouraged the translation of classical Western works like Shakespeare and Chekhov into Cantonese, as well as the commission of new local plays. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z And isn’t Posner’s “Life Sucks” Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”? Yes: The characters, the plot, the angst and humor are mainly the same. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z We began to get commissioned by theaters and eventually turned to the Everest of our ambitions: the major plays of Anton Chekhov. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z British playwright Tom Stoppard and American David Mamet have both re-worked works by the humble, often bespectacled Chekhov, and women revered him for giving them a strong voice by creating complex female characters. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z He keeps working, taking up a residency at a Hiroshima arts center, where he will direct an experimental production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z His first mention as an actor in The Times was in 1976, when he was in a showcase production of Chekhov’s “Ivanov” by the Impossible Ragtime Theater. Brian Dennehy, Tony Award-Winning Actor, Dies at 81 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z In January, Theater J premiered Posner’s “Life Sucks,” the second in his series of adapted Chekhov plays. Another ‘Pitch Perfect’ part for Ben Platt 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Margulies, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner With Friends," "Sight Unseen" and a host of other resonant American dramas, has finally gotten around to writing his Chekhov play. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It won't, of course, happen – because our TV bosses, with the exception of the Sky panjandrums who've lately commissioned seasons of both Chekhov shorts and live drama, generally detest theatre or seem nervous of it. Michael Billington on Shakespeare on TV 2010-12-15T21:45:01Z Here is a typical detail that Chekhov developed, and the stance that he took towards it: Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z He added that the Chekhov was “for dessert,” and also provided him with the writings of Karamzin, a historian, for background on the nation’s development. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z In Los Angeles, where no one notices theater, she kept at it — Chekhov, Ibsen, Ruth Draper’s monologues. How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z If there’s a song with a gun, Dolly Parton, like Anton Chekhov, will deploy it by the third act. Review | ‘Dolly Parton, Songteller’ is a gold mine of little-seen photos and personal anecdotes 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Bellow quoted Chekhov saying "as I get older, everything I read seems not short enough." ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z Chekhov’s lifelike dialogue, use of symbols and de-emphasis of dramatic plotting defied theatrical convention in 1896, when the play premiered in St. Petersburg with a disastrous opening night. Veteran actors launch Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ 2013-01-17T22:12:23Z Oh, we see Chekhov and Ibsen and indulge in the occasional French comedy, but those works tend to be decades or centuries old. Review: In ‘Quiet, Comfort,’ a Mattress Becomes the Audience’s Magic Carpet 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The tale is a melancholy one, its Chekhovian tone underlined when the author informs readers that on the day the story ends, “January 17, 1904, Anton Chekhov debuted ‘The Cherry Orchard’ in Moscow.” Books of the Times: In Europe, Mixing Union and Diversity 2010-12-29T23:29:44Z The big difference is that Chekhov's characters have an unsatisfied rage for life whereas Gray's suffer a little too passively. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z Last year, Seattle actor Brandon Simmons decided why just hold readings of the Chekhov classic when he and other similarly talented stage folk could stage it? Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Jan. 27, 2013 2013-01-25T01:09:43Z So is his sense of Chekhov as a social satirist, whose characters are closer to the quirky grotesques of Charles Dickens than we usually realize. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z His writing is deceptively simple and straightforward – but it haunts you after you've finished reading it, as Chekhov does. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z He was the father of Russian drama and a palpable influence on Anton Chekhov, yet his plays get only scattered revivals. Larisa and the Merchants – review 2013-05-08T16:57:37Z So, as one of Chekhov’s characters, who know from dashed hopes, might put it, “What happened?” Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z This analysis of the art of writing, conducted through a close analysis of seven classic Russian short stories — by Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol — emerges from a longtime course Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “The Cherry Orchard” was written and produced while Chekhov knew he was dying of consumption. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The attempts to deconstruct Chekhov’s work extends to the set by Dots, the design collective. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Such blurring of emotions is what makes Chekhov the greatest dramatist since Shakespeare, and also the hardest to get right in performance. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z Chekhov's plays can feel desultory, but there's not a moment in any of his masterpieces in which his thematic vision isn't deepening. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The new book emerges from his longtime course on the 19th-century Russian short story — on Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Or as Ms. Satter said in an interview, “It’s like someone took Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ and put it inside a snow globe and shook it up.” Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z Both of them were excited to encounter a fresh version of a Chekhov play and Ms. Blanchett was struck by some of its contemporary resonances. Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The playwrights aren’t slouches either: Halley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow,” adapted from Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” is one of several world premieres planned at Williamstown. 15 Summer Theater Festivals (and More) 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z But there are moments in which the author's signature loopiness — her gift for catching her characters at embarrassingly oblique angles — enlivens what might be described as made-for-TV Chekhov. 'Better' is good look at woman's attempt at great happiness 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Short of fulfilling a union requirement, there’s no reason for playwrights to keep pickpocketing Chekhov. Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z But, even if the result is an odd mish-mash, there are moments when Williams's preoccupations coincide with Chekhov's: most especially in Nina's heartfelt cry that "what's important is only to go on". The Notebook of Trigorin | Theatre review 2010-04-05T21:00:00Z Later, I had enough to do in teaching European theatre at Warwick University, getting students to understand Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wedekind, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett and Artaud, without making time for Shaw. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z But Andrews was also shrewd enough to keep key Chekhov images. Best theatre of 2012, No 3: Three Sisters, Young Vic 2012-12-19T17:40:41Z We want to see Chekhov through the lens of the modern novel, but it’s the novel that must be seen through the lens of Chekhov. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z It's easy to forget how the portraits that emerged in the final years of Chekhov's life – the consumptive, primly dressed, prematurely aged invalid of Yalta – have come to dominate our sense of the writer. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z She auditioned in Seattle for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Britain’s oldest drama school, and got in — she spent the next three years there studying everything from Chekhov to flamenco. On ‘Barry,’ Sarah Goldberg Has Learned to Love TV 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “Today when history presents us with more and more cruel surprises, Chekhov is getting more modern,” he said. Perspective | The world still comes to Washington’s stage 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelson’s characters are inevitably readers of Chekhov, and “Nikolai” quotes directly and indirectly from that master of Slavic ennui. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z But Fichandler’s accomplishment wasn’t just a boon for pols and lobbyists with a taste for Chekhov. Seeking answers to L.A.'s 99-seat theater crisis in the legacies of two theatrical trailblazers 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Never did you feel the stop and go of many Chekhov productions. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Readers Review 'Three Sisters' 2011-02-07T13:00:29Z We, the audience, sit, watch Chekhov’s gun go off and then consider what it means. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z What, after all, have Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, talk of "quantum teleportation" and a blitz of four-letter words to do with Chekhov's Three Sisters? Best theatre of 2012, No 3: Three Sisters, Young Vic 2012-12-19T17:40:41Z This irreverent update, playing at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, until August 17th, manages to capture the enduring essence of Chekhov’s classic even as it reimagines it for the 21st century. A 21st-century “Seagull” 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Dylan has denied that “Blood” is autobiographical; in his memoir, “Chronicles: Volume One,” he suggests that the songs were based on Chekhov. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A “donka,” meanwhile, is the Russian word for a bell attached to a fishing pole that signals a bite; Chekhov liked to fish. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z The short stories of Anton Chekhov and Katharine Mansfield: they are like a shot of caffeine taken before a nap. 'I watch old westerns while the spuds are in the oven': creative people on how they relax 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Once a Moscow schoolgirl, eighteen years old, sent a couple of stories she had written to Chekhov. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z It ends with the biting clamour of blades hacking into cherry wood, with which Chekhov may have conjured an appropriate symbol of our times – a mountain of debt reduced by a welter of damaging cuts. The Cherry Orchard - review 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z Chekhov’s characters, after all, want so desperately to believe that they do not speak in vain, that what they say might somehow be remembered, even many years from now. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z Neither triumphs; Chekhov portrays them as equally sympathetic, equally pitiable. Antaeus Company's 'Uncle Vanya' is a sharp execution of midlife drift 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Sheridan Smith is to star in the forthcoming Sky Arts Chekhov season. Theatre on TV: Sky Arts leaves BBC in the wings with Chekhov revivals 2010-07-12T12:39:00Z The 27-year-old Chekhov was still finding his voice with this work. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z Advertisement At that gathering, Nabokov himself listed famed Russian authors, asking who did not know the name of such giants as Tolstoy and Chekhov. George Weidenfeld, British Publisher of ‘Lolita’ and London Fixture, Dies at 96 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z There are very few genius-clusters in literary history like the murderer’s row of great 19th century Russian writers: Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Lermontov, Chekhov. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z But McPherson, even as a young writer, had something of Anton Chekhov's genius for finding drama in the minute particular and for revealing the poetry in what might have been. The Weir – review 2013-04-26T12:31:37Z Andrew Upton’s adaptation of an early Anton Chekhov play about provincial anomie winds down its Broadway run ahead of a March 19 close. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Three Sisters Chekhov’s classic comedy about a Russian family in decline. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 23-30: 'As You Like It,' REDCAT's NOW Festival and more 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z More recently she starred in Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer," the stage adaptation of Almodovar's "All About My Mother," Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," and a revival of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever." Diana Rigg, star of "The Avengers" and "Game of Thrones," dies at 82 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Chekhov did an extraordinary thing in making the static life of a writer dramatic, examining loneliness and failure alongside self-aggrandisement and celebrity. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z The author of the play is not Anton Chekhov, but Alexander Ostrovsky. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z Directed by the pair for Dead Centre — their Dublin company, familiar to New York audiences for the shows “Lippy” and “Hamnet” — it whittles Chekhov’s script down to a bare 70 minutes. ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Van Hove has applied the prism to Shakespeare, Molière and Chekhov, and adapted works by such varied sources as film director Michelangelo Antonioni and novelist Ayn Rand. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But, although her play has a quiet truth, comparisons that have been made with Chekhov flatter her. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z You could fault the translator Moura Budberg for her unhelpful fidelity to the play except that the few scenes departing from Chekhov are worse. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The painting depicts, among others, Anton Chekhov, TS Eliot and Charles Ives together with the names of their actual careers: medicine, banking and insurance. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z Ms. Baker, who says “Vanya” is her favorite play, found even more affinity with Chekhov when she dug into the original. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z In theater I've always learned something about the particular world that the play is about — whether it's 1906 outside of Moscow in a Chekhov play, or an Arthur Miller play. 'Alphas' star David Strathairn on why he continues to act 2011-07-06T17:35:05Z When I think of Corot’s women, I think of Nabokov’s description of Chekhov’s books as “sad books for humorous people.” Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z This latest collection of work by James Wood, the commanding, occasionally contentious critic at The New Yorker, includes pieces about many literary greats: Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Before a meeting of the Mile High Club is convened, the Russians talk about Chekhov: a reference that’s lost on the lieutenants, although Richie is savvy enough to make a “Three Sisters” joke. ‘Vinyl’ Series Premiere: A Golden Ear and a Silver Tongue 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The play, an adaptation of nine Chekhov short stories, features two hours of smart performances and skillful production. Theater Review: ?Chekhovek,? With 9 Chekhov Plays, at ArcLight Theater 2012-02-08T22:18:57Z Chekhov, in short, invented a new kind of literature at Sakhalin. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z And in a work as plain-spoken as the Elgar, his elevated articulation was more Shakespeare than, say, the Chekhov it should have been. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z “Don’t we look to the arts, though, to give us a weathervane, somehow? Chekhov said the role of the artist isn’t to answer the questions but just to formulate the questions. That’s all.” Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Chekhov once said that anyone could write a biography of Socrates, but it takes skill to tell the stories of smaller, anonymous lives. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z I have been thinking not just of Chekhov but of Harold Pinter, who is an even better guide to Trump’s brutal relativism and canny opportunism. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z This is the playful spirit of a comedy that urges us, in the gentle spirit of Chekhov, to live a little better. Top-notch 'Stupid ... Bird' zings with audacity 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z "You wouldn't do that for a Chekhov play would you?" he cried. James Corden's Tony award is deserved recognition for fine-tuned farce 2012-06-11T14:22:57Z “Though there is that scary Chekhov quote—if a gun shows up in the first act, it must be fired in the third.” The Gonzo Artists Arrive in Cleveland 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z So my literary heroes are Sarshar, Chekhov, Buddha and my grandmother. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z In this area, his precursor is Anton Chekhov, whom Williams admired tremendously. Review: Marisa Tomei, in Extremis, in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Chekhov takes up much of “Uncle Romeo,” which is a blessing because as staged here, the parts from his play flow better than the ones from Shakespeare’s tragedy. Review: Shakespeare + Chekhov = ‘Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet’ 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It was part of Chekhov’s genius to elicit this paradox from the environment where we feel both most comfortable, most trapped and most vulnerable: the place we call home. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z I had only read “The Island,” Chekhov’s nonfiction book about his journey across Siberia to the prison colony on Sakhalin, and “The Lady With the Dog.” Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z To get himself started, he decided, as he put it, to "stitch together" two short stories by that master short story-writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z And there’s filler language, so I felt that it would be more loyal to Chekhov to add some. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z New York Theater Workshop also said it had slated four shows so far for 2022-23, including a staging of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” that had originally been planned for 2020. New York Theater Workshop Plans a Summer Reopening 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z In his “Apple Family Plays and the Gabriels,” the playwright Richard Nelson offered a bittersweet hat tip to Anton Chekhov. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z In these desperate political days when facts are being flicked away like flies, a minor incident in Anton Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters” keeps replaying itself in my mind. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z She made her name in the 1950s as Off Broadway came to prominence, in plays like “The Misanthrope” and Chekhov’s “Ivanov,” and throughout her career she performed in regional theater productions. Sada Thompson, Actress Known for Maternal Roles, Dies at 83 2011-05-06T04:38:16Z “The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly,” Anton Chekhov wrote. An Aspiring Editor Meets a Thorny Dilemma 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z A sort of adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” is definitely back for an encore run. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Artists who have worked with the company describe her as a mother and a nurturer, a kindlier one than Bessie or Chekhov’s Arkadina or Brecht’s Mother Courage, roles she has also played. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “These stories are inconclusive, we say, and proceed to frame a criticism based upon the assumption that stories ought to conclude in a way that we recognize,” Virginia Woolf would later write about Chekhov. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But I wouldn’t want to sacrifice any of Ms. Pritchard’s songs, which prove to be a natural fit for Chekhov’s drama of misfired romances and lives steeped in disappointment. Review: ‘Songbird,’ a Honky-Tonk Take on Chekhov 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Greene liked to quote Chekhov’s aphorism that a writer is “not a confectioner, not a cosmetician, not an entertainer.” When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He offers glimpses of the more mature writer still to evolve in these light comedies, which were composed while Chekhov was in his 20s and doubling as a physician. | 'The Sneeze': Gesundheits as Chekhov and Vaudeville Collide 2010-10-01T23:39:00Z Since its founding in the mid-1970s, the Wooster Group has been performing acts of blessed profanation on sacred texts, including Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” and Racine’s “Phèdre.” Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z A Fresh Breeze in Pastoral Russia Experiencing a little discomfort is probably an appropriate way to immerse yourself in the world of Chekhov. Theater Review: ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Adapted by Annie Baker, at Soho Rep 2012-06-18T02:00:00Z In the section on Chekhov’s “The Darling,” Saunders writes that the story seems to ask us to sit in judgment of the character, to ask, “Is this trait of hers good or bad?” George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z There are some playwrights – Chekhov and Beckett among them – who I think you can only truly appreciate once you've experienced the compromises and disappointments of adult life. Lyn Gardner on critics changing their minds 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z The first year will also include a production of “The Same,” a play by Enda Walsh about two women in a psychiatric institution, and “Chekhov’s First Play,” via Dead Centre, an Irish/English theater company. New York’s Irish Arts Center Upgrades to a ‘Flagship Hub’ 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z It's like Chekhov and Brecht: you get the sense Chekhov nurtured his ideas, whereas Brecht was 'Try a bit of this, try a bit of that.' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: David Greig on making a musical to rival Matilda 2013-06-18T07:00:00Z “Winter Sleep” was inspired by the short stories of Chekhov, as well as works by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Cannes Film Festival: From Writers' Fights Came 'Winter Sleep' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z It is a much spouted and seldom tested wisdom that Chekhov productions are quite different in Russian and in English. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z By now, I’ve seen enough versions of “The Cherry Orchard,” Chekhov’s valedictory play, to create my own plantation of those gorgeous, doomed trees. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z His name is Platonov, and he was at the center of a sprawling, untitled script that few people even knew existed until 16 or so years after Chekhov’s death, in 1904. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z The revival is a coproduction with the Chekhov International Theater Festival in Moscow and the National Theater in London, where it runs until March 22. With a 7-Hour Saga, Robert Lepage Returns to Safer Ground 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The spa town of Dilijan, situated in the park, is an atmospheric place out of a Chekhov story. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z It changed how I understood Chekhov, it changed my understanding of the play, it changed my understanding of myself. ‘The Whole Audience Was Vibrating’: Your Memorable Performances 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z In Russia, Krymov was revered by critics and audiences alike for his brazenly original and visually driven re-imaginings of classics from Pushkin, Chekhov and Shakespeare, among others. Amid Exile and Fire, a Revered Russian Theater Director Is Reborn 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The sense of an inescapable darkness waiting to consume all things bright and living is paradoxically what makes Chekhov, above all modern playwrights, so vibrant. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z “The standard of Chekhov,” Posner says, “is tell all the truth about the most complex things in the world in the simplest possible ways. He’s created the highest bar there is.” It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In recent years Sky Arts is the only broadcaster to have experimented with any enthusiasm in theatre, showing productions from Shakespeare's Globe as well as short Chekhov adaptations. What's TV's problem with theatre? 2013-03-20T18:31:19Z “Gentlemen, who remembers how it’s described in Lermontov?” one of the confused parties asks in Chekhov’s “The Duel.” The Pen, the Sword, and the Duel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z "Realism," Ochoa shakily claims, "took hold in art and literature by the mid-1900s" — a half-century after Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov liberated the theater from melodrama. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z For no writer, ever, has matched Chekhov in capturing the heights and depths, tragic and comic, that inform daily existence at its most listless and most eventful. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The earliest citation Mr. Sullivan could find crediting the saying to Chekhov was from 1981. That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Gestures are never really completed, though, because Chekhov’s characters are doomed to solitude, never more than when they’re in closest proximity to one another. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z And in keeping with mature Chekhov, there were no true villains, only degrees of blindness, vanity and selfishness. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Thanks to the latest, 30-volume edition of Chekhov and its extensive endnotes, we were able to reconstruct this script, eliminating all the changes made in rehearsal. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z For an actor, McKenna was an unusually modest and self-effacing man, and this trait lent a profound transparency and poignancy to those performances that touched on failure and disappointment, notably in Chekhov. TP McKenna obituary 2011-02-16T19:05:33Z And despite some aching speeches about hopelessness and despair, the play never plumbs the soulful depths in which Chekhov is at home. | 'The Forest': Dianne Wiest Tries ?The Forest? at Classic Stage 2010-05-07T03:50:00Z Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov’s 1887 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner’s daughter. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But remember the rule of Chekhov’s gun: You don’t bring a weapon onto a stage unless you intend to use it. “Game of Thrones” recap: “The Spoils of War,” paid for in fire and blood 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The stereotypical Chekhov is depicted as a gentle master of nuance with a compassionate vision of human foibles — and there is much truth in this assessment. ‘Stupid _______ Bird’ Returns to Woolly Mammoth Theater 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z “Boy, Chekhov just always goes right over my head,” he replies. Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z And befitting a school that skews more Anton Chekhov than Woody Allen, the two share an almost formal quality unusual for actors of their generation, even those on the Broadway scene. An Encore for Alex Sharp and Phillipa Soo at Juilliard 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z This is Chekhov with the original censor's cuts restored. 'Bitty' to Chekhov 2011-06-15T07:40:28Z I like the Russians, the Chekhov short stories, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Bruce Springsteen: By the Book 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z But in a year of remarkable Chekhov revivals, this Seagull flies with the best. The Seagull – review 2012-11-13T17:00:02Z There are times when you are caught between laughter and tears in a way that makes comparisons with Chekhov seem far from fanciful. Absent Friends - review 2012-02-10T00:30:17Z What you get when you cross Christopher Durang with Anton Chekhov meets your best expectations from the king of anxious comedy and the master of Russian despair — gloom and guffaws. Sibling drama gets a Chekhov twist in ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Such is the price you pay for the privilege of crawling beneath the skin of a Chekhov masterwork. Review: Listening to ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Virgin Ears 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z After two decades away from the stage, Streep chose the Public's Shakespeare in the Park season for her return in 2001, playing Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. Meryl Streep donates $1m to New York's Public theatre 2012-10-05T13:09:49Z Throw in Chekhov and Flaubert, and Bascomb's list could be Cheever's. A brief survey of the short story part 45: John Cheever 2012-11-16T11:05:54Z As part of the newly formed Hunter Theater Project, Mr. Nelson will direct a new translation of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy with a cast including Jay O. Sanders, Alice Cannon and Yvonne Woods. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It shares a few of the themes of Chekhov’s original, a concern with tradition and modern life, permanence and evanescence. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z That is the central pull of Chekhov's play and it is missing from Lindsay Posner's stolid production at the Vaudeville. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z Miller said, adding that Sowerby reminds him of Chekhov as she tells of domestic lives that would otherwise be forgotten. Jonathan Miller attacks West End trend of 'dumping' classic plays in a new era 2013-02-02T11:23:44Z Chekhov’s play lends itself to dismantling and comic scrutiny. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z One review in a German newspaper had the headline: “Chekhov, Beckett, Haidle.” Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z And yet, despite its playful humor and antics, the show often falls into lulls where it’s mostly just performing a rote version of Chekhov’s piece. ‘Seagull’ Review: Blurring the Lines of Fiction 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Working with a cast that dares to spend most of its time onstage somewhere way out on a limb, Mr. Ascher solves the eternal Chekhov conundrum that often brings strong directors to their knees. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z Pony World Theatre cut up Chekhov’s plays, rearranged the lines and made a new play set in a contemporary office where people wring their hands in quiet desperation for our amusement. Kirkland Uncorked, Bite of Seattle, Seafair Pow Wow Days 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z At Cornell University, she read Chekhov in Russian and studied piano. Zelda Fichandler, a Matriarch of Regional Theater, Dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Chekhov refuses to sugarcoat reality just as he refuses to give up on humanity. Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z Chekhov’s quest to inoculate himself against ennui offers lessons for writers working in our current climate of desensitization. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The season will also include plays by Arthur Miller and Anton Chekhov. Anderson to perform in Streetcar 2013-09-27T12:18:55Z Kidman credits her ability to live in her character’s emotions to her early study of Russian literature, such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, as well as plays by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant can’t tell you the twists in ‘The Undoing.’ But even they were shocked by the story. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Chekhov once wrote of his own dramatic intentions, “All I wanted was to say honestly to people: ‘Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!’ Antaeus Company's 'Uncle Vanya' is a sharp execution of midlife drift 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Any parts you'd really like to play?I'm a big Chekhov fan. Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist' 2011-01-02T00:05:11Z Posner has a character in “Bird” loudly admit that the show is ripping off a classic, cashing in on marquee value and conjuring the magic of Chekhov’s famous characters. It’s ‘Vanya,’ loosely speaking 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z More often than not, she’d be there, portraying women of wit and passion, whose commanding serenity rippled with hints of upheavals to come, masterly performances in masterworks by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pinter, Ibsen, Rattigan and Euripides. How Helen McCrory Shone, Even in a Haze of Mystery 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z My writing teacher, Lucia Berlin, used to admire how Anton Chekhov would treat a princess and a maid with the same lack of judgment in his writing. 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' is a charming summer tale of wealth and its loss 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z His other German translations include work by Bertolt Brecht; from the Russian, Mr. Heim translated several Chekhov plays, including “The Seagull,” “The Cherry Orchard” and “Uncle Vanya.” Michael Henry Heim, Literary Translator, Dies at 69 2012-10-05T14:27:19Z Like Chekhov, whose ghost floats pleasantly through these pages, Shteyngart is a master of verbs. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Other than Chekhov, there's not a lot of stuff that gets produced from the Russian writers over here. Jon Hamm mines Russian lit in darkly comic 'Young Doctor's Notebook' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z My own interest in Chekhov's love affairs was stimulated by a particular short story Chekhov wrote, called "A Visit to Friends". Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z She was discovered at Pasadena Playhouse in a 1932 production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull by scouts from both Paramount and Universal studios. Gloria Stuart obituary 2010-09-28T18:20:00Z What Chekhov provides in Platonov is a tragi-comic portrait of the superfluous man: in this case a ragingly articulate schoolteacher whose volatile despair proves fatally attractive to women. Sons Without Fathers – review 2013-04-23T18:10:00Z Chekhov provides just enough context to explain Chebutykin’s burst of nihilism. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The others include “Dear Love,” based on the correspondence between the poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “Dear Life,” inspired by the letters exchanged between Anton Chekhov and his wife, Olga Knipper. Jerome Kilty, 90, Actor and Playwright, Dies 2012-09-16T00:27:42Z Chekhov, in particular, has become a sort of Pied Piper for the company. Classic Stage Company, Downtown Celebrity Magnet 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z That question lurks behind pretty much everything everyone says in Andrei Belgrader’s heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard,” which opened Sunday night in a Classic Stage Company production. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z But it has an easygoing accessibility that suggests there’s no reason to be afraid of Anton Chekhov. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Hanson creates a lengthy pastiche of abstracted video images, documentary dialogue and audiotape, music, poetry, choreographed movement, monologues, musings by Anton Chekhov and W.H. Art ponders violence in new Dayna Hanson piece 2013-12-07T22:19:07Z You could argue that Anton Chekhov is the godfather of “The Office.” Kirkland Uncorked, Bite of Seattle, Seafair Pow Wow Days 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z In May 2013, Mr. Sullivan heard from a reader who, after a fruitless attempt to prove Chekhov’s authorship of those words, wanted help uncovering the true history of the quotation. That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But there is another reason that might explain both Chekhov's emotional appetite and his stubborn refusal to make that final commitment to another person. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z Quality performances throughout Elsewhere on Twitter, people were seeing a whole range of other performances, including: Chekhov and Nirvana?! Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z Overall, the play will appeal more to the Chekhov enthusiast than to the casual theatergoer. Theater Review: ?Chekhovek,? With 9 Chekhov Plays, at ArcLight Theater 2012-02-08T22:18:57Z At the Arena Stage, he appeared in Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” and starred in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Ned Beatty, indelible in ‘Deliverance,’ ‘Network’ dies at 83 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z “It was like Chekhov’s engagement ring,” Ms. Hart said. A Romance Bloomed Behind the Cameras 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked with several repertory theaters before making his London debut in 1950 in Chekhov’s “Ivanov.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z But this is Ms. Catlett’s point and likely Chekhov’s point, too: Even lives half-lived continue on long after the lights go down. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z “How do we get people into a Chekhov play or a Molière play that they wouldn’t necessarily be flocking to?” Classic Stage Company, Downtown Celebrity Magnet 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Her longing to be taken seriously as an artist, her ambition to play Chekhov, and Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, only add to the pathos of her story. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z A program note tells us that Hunter was sometimes accused of mimicking Chekhov, and it’s easy to see why. Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z If you believe that love is both comic and tragic, as do most sensible people who have lost their senses in its name, there’s no better place to start than the canon of Chekhov. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The Chekhov story preoccupies him, arousing memories of his own youth in Leningrad and his own experience of early love. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z "Do you know Chekhov's great story, 'The Kiss'?" she asks. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z A prolific author often compared to Anton Chekhov and known for his limpid French prose, Mr. Makine used the pen name since 2001 to write novels about the world’s cruelty and human quest for transcendence. ArtsBeat: Who is Gabriel Osmonde? A French Literary Mystery is Solved 2011-04-01T17:40:04Z Several London theaters currently have Chekhov productions, including "Three Sisters," a heart-wrenching tale set in a drab provincial town depicting the sisters' longing and desperation following the death of their father. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z You see, for Mr. Ayckbourn, as for Chekhov, farce and tragedy are no more mutually exclusive in theater than they are in life. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “Stupid _____ Bird,” like many adaptations of Chekhov, sets the play in the here and now, only more so. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z We all read Chekhov and Gogol and Dostoyevsky and all the giants; we read them in translation, and it was coherent for us, and it acted upon us. Man Booker Winners Agree: Translating Jokes Is Hard 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Roxburgh agreed, though he cautioned that he had seen Chekhov plays that made him want “to put my eyes out.” Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, in Love and Battle 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Chekhov doesn't bother with all this philosophy, at least not explicitly. Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z That's right: 50 repeatedly breaks Russian writer Anton Chekhov's rule of skilled storytelling by alluding to weapons without pulling the triggers. 50 Cent makes another horrible pitch with 'Animal Ambition' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Shishkin says he was influenced by Chekhov's sense of humanity and learned from Tolstoy "not to be afraid of being naive". The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z Anton Chekhov’s play directed by Jackson Gay, sharing a cast and running simultaneously with Aaron Posner’s new “No Sisters.” DC Theater Friday: ‘Three Sisters’ 2.0, plus a ‘Nasty Women’ rep 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Historically, one name for the found Chekhov text has been “Play Without a Title.” ‘Chekhov’s First Play’ Review: A Play-by-Play of the Play Within the Play 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Mostly, when critics read “Sakhalin Island,” they read it as a source text for later works by Chekhov, in particular the stories dealing with prison and exile. Chekhov’s Beautiful Nonfiction 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Publication of an overlooked work by a master like Chekhov would obviously be a coup for any publishing house, large or small. New York Review of Books Fills a Niche by Reviving Forgotten Works 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The Night King killed and resurrected Viserion last week, and we all know what Chekhov said about zombie dragons. ‘Game of Thrones’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Finale 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Like other recent adaptations, “What If They Went to Moscow?” retains Chekhov’s characters and structure, while modernizing circumstances and idiom. ‘What If They Went to Moscow?’ Review: Chekhov, Sliced and Spliced 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Through March 19 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, he’s starring opposite Cate Blanchett in “The Present,” a Chekhov adaptation that floats along on a vodka tide, gradually snaring his character, Mikhail, in the undertow. How to Act Drunk, With Richard Roxburgh 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But it’s there, tucked in a story about a pope who describes himself with bittersweet self-knowing as an actor and meets a troupe rehearsing Chekhov’s “Seagull.” Movie Review: Michel Piccoli in Nanni Moretti?s ?We Have a Pope? 2012-04-05T23:37:56Z Towards the end of the novel, Shutov realises that he has misremembered the Chekhov story that he has held in his heart for so long. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z That this first of Chekhov’s four great plays ends, as does “Patriots,” with a suicide is an intriguing coincidence that also points to the undercurrents of pain that inform both plays. Putin, Chekhov and the Theater of Despair 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z One of this work’s two epigraphs comes from Chekhov: “I find it somehow sad and shameful to admit, even to myself, that my youth has passed entirely without love.” My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Not that war features in “The Black Monk,” which is based on an 1894 short story by Anton Chekhov. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Chekhov’s dictum about a gun shown in the first act having to go off in the second apparently also applies to volcanoes in jukebox musicals. Embracing the chill in Jimmy Buffett's 'Escape to Margaritaville' 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z It is not faster or funnier than British Chekhov: it moves with a lethal majesty. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z Hemingway and his Paris crowd were very important to me; Joyce, Camus, Chekhov but also Henrik Ibsen and – in the German speaking countries – the nearly forgotten Henry de Montherlant. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Clarke is now making her West End debut in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," an experience she does not take for granted, thanking the craft of acting for her good memory, even after her injuries. The part "Game of Thrones" played in helping Emilia Clarke recover from brain injuries 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Devotees of social media, in particular, regularly flout Anton Chekhov’s profound dictum that, above all else, people must never be humiliated. Review | What ‘Henry Huggins’ and ‘Lolita’ can teach us about extremism — and civil discourse 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Cross-cutting between Reeves dashing back and forth from a performance of Chekhov onstage and bank robbers digging a tunnel to a vault below is clearly intended to be hilarious, but it just seems awkward. "Crime" doesn't pay for Keanu Reeves in spoof 2010-10-04T21:36:00Z In seminars, my classmates would refer to Chekhov or Plath, and I’d check the syllabus to see if I’d missed an assignment. She Grew Up in a House Without Books. A Teacher Helped Her Realize She Could Write One Herself. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The library of his New York townhouse, with its towering bookcases, a portrait of George Eliot and a photo of the Chekhov family, was a shrine to literature. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Hacked down trees and slaughtered birds are easy enough to find in Ibsen and Chekhov, but their presence when prominent tends to be symbolic, a reflection of the human world and hence subordinate. The arts become Earth-aware: Dawning age of what are known as eco-arts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In some scenes, this can make Ms. McCarrick’s style, which owes a debt to Chekhov and O’Casey and is not exactly fleet, positively trudge. Review: In ‘The Naturalists,’ a Farm and a Family Evolve 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z She’s led a life that has often put her at a distance from Chekhov’s “contented, happy” person. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z When Chekhov first submitted "The Wood Demon" to the literary board of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, the reaction was not encouraging, to put it gently. On stage: myths by the pool, and Chekhov's 'The Wood Demon' 2011-06-09T20:16:19Z It operates the way it does in the plays of Chekhov, as a foundational part of existence from an artist who believes that, as Dylan famously put it, life is but a joke. Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z He puts it aside and — like Chekhov’s gun — that letter remains in the background for many pages, nearly forgotten, until it reappears at a dramatic turning point. Curious George turns 75: Why the monkey and the Man in the Yellow Hat endure 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s a revelation worthy of Chekhov, a writer Dubus often taught and clearly revered. Learning to Love the Stories of Andre Dubus 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z His star pupil, Michael Chekhov, though he subscribed to Stanislavski's analysis of acting, had a different view of actors. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z Though the scholarship on its origins is uncertain, it appears that Chekhov began writing it as an 18-year-old student, and it exudes a youthful, passionate untidiness. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Directed by Jonathan Kent, from sharp-witted translations by the British dramatist David Hare, these productions show how slapstick and self-lacerating angst breathe the same romantic oxygen in Chekhov’s universe. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z It starts to feel bizarrely as if Chekhov had been brought in to rewrite an episode of “Absolutely Fabulous.” Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z She possessed an uncommon versatility, as happy in Chekhov and Ibsen as she was feeding lines to Les Dawson, whom she adored. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z The statements echo each other, but it’s not just that Hamaguchi is finding confirmation in Chekhov, or relying on the authority of a past literary master to certify his theme. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z A sentimental view of life as a cul-de-sac hasn’t been virgin territory in world drama at least since Chekhov’s mopey Russians first hit the stage. Review: In ‘Lost Girls,’ Derailed Blue-Collar Lives, With Zingers 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Ezekiel was saved, and so immediately enquired about the whereabouts of Shiva, all but guaranteeing her arrival later on, like a big stripy Chekhov’s Gun. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z A selection of Chekhov’s stories in a hardback printed in the former Soviet Union. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Yet the perspective that infuses them is as bleak as anything from those greatest of theatrical modernists, Beckett and Chekhov. Review: A Heartbreaker Returns in ‘The Young Man From Atlanta’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Chekhov in Hell at the Drum in Plymouth is a sly and engaging satire on how the Russian playwright might view 21st-century British life; it's superbly staged and acted. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-11-19T16:12:00Z In this bittersweet fantasia, modeled on Anton Chekhov’s plays, George Bernard Shaw substitutes cups of Earl Grey and cucumber sandwiches for Chekhov’s samovar and pickles. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Chekhov didn’t write novels but he is a touchstone for me. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z The link between Chekhov’s observational ensemble dramas and Ms. Baker’s empathic, elliptical plays, which include “Body Awareness” and “The Aliens,” is not such a stretch. Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z And no: the language is slangy and now, and license is freely claimed to recast Chekhov’s questions in a modern terms. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z A New ‘Vanya’ for the Living Room It began with a bottle of mescal, a hillside in Utah and a copy of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” Annie Baker’s ‘Uncle Vanya,’ Set for Soho Rep 2012-06-08T00:30:02Z You might think this would break the flow-of-life continuity that is so essential to successful interpretations of Chekhov and so hard to achieve. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z Posner gives huge and equal bearhugs to Chekhov’s absurd comedy and touching pathos while leaving room to banter with the audience. Who says “Life Sucks”? Chekhov, through Posner, at Theater J 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z So many contemporary plays owe something to Chekhov and his tender lampoons of human folly. Ben Feldman, Mamie Gummer and modern love in the Uber age 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Reiss says her adaptation of The Seagull occupies the middle ground between the "tear it apart" approach of the Young Vic's Three Sisters and the "reverential" way Chekhov is usually treated in the UK. Chekhov fans spoilt for choice 2012-11-07T01:46:26Z During my stay in Moscow, I visited the homes of two giants of Russian literature: Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z I did not see Chekhov as either a religious or spiritual writer, but rather as the most profound humanist. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Satter has said that the character of Nina — with her “weird, adolescent girl magic” — was the gateway to her interpretation of Chekhov. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z The company performed plays by Chekhov, Pinter and a host of others there for more than 30 years. Honey Waldman, Producer Who Created 2 Theaters, Dies at 87 2013-12-14T06:26:47Z That excess verbiage about the parking rules just screams of Chekhov’s gun. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 9: Why Is Everyone Stating the Obvious? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Character is destiny, they say, and perhaps Suvorin saw in Chekhov's character his mighty resolve and dedication to the Chekhov project. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z It was Chekhov who once said that anyone could write a biography of Socrates, but it takes skill to tell the stories of all the smaller, anonymous lives. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z You’re more likely to squirm, though, at what seems as incongruous as a Chekhov play staged in clown costume. Movie Review: ‘The English Teacher,’ Starring Julianne Moore 2013-05-23T22:48:55Z In 2010, Sharps staged Before I Sleep, a response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, in a former department store in Brighton. Da Vinci v dreamthinkspeak at Somerset House 2013-01-29T07:00:03Z I thought I was going to be doing Chekhov plays. How SNL’s Chloe Fineman became the comedian we need right now 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z These couples’ romantic foibles are depicted in language that’s sharply contemporary and brashly funny, and often brazenly slaps the subtext of Chekhov’s original right onto the surface. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z By 1898 Chekhov's health was seriously impaired by his tuberculosis, and he had only six more years of life left; he died at the early age of 44. Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z The Chekhov rewrite, Sons without Fathers, is well worth a trip to the Arcola. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z In the collaborative pipeline with Ms. Baker is a new translation of a Chekhov play. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z |
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