'Ivanov' relentlessly strips down Chekhov
THEATER REVIEW: "Ivanov" by Piven Theatre Workshop ★★★ There are few traps worse for a play than to be chockablock with characters who proclaim — early and often — that they are bored. You're practically begging the audience to say, "Funny, so are we." It's doubly worse if it's Anton Chekhov, given that people who don't know a lot about Chekhov often assume (wrongly) that his plays are …