Uncle Vanya ****, Patriots ****
By: David Sheward May 5, 2024: Lila Neugebauer's laugh-filled, all-star revival of Anton Chekhov's classic Uncle Vanya, at Lincoln Center's cavernous Vivian Beaumont Theater, removes the play from its original setting of the pre-Revolutionary Russian countryside and places it in a non-specific, presumably American 2024. (Mimi Lein's set appears to be somewhere in the rural heartland. The characters play jazz on a …