Austin Pendleton's helming is physically energetic and far less gloomy than the customary theatrical take, allowing a sterling ensemble to exercise its comedic chops on the scribe's complain…
If Gyllenhaal brings them through the door, it's two other actors, though, who give the very lively production - directed by Austin Pendleton from a translation by Carol Rocamora - its emoti…
This is one of those plays that continues to grow on one so that it will be affective even if a production doesn't live 100% up to one's expectations. The CSC production is no exception.
The most startling revelation of director Austin Pendelton's production is Mamie Gummer as Sonya, Vanya's plain niece. Classic Stage Company should have renamed this production "Sonya."
If the production never quite comes together - and unfortunately it does not - the problem comes down to Denis O'Hare's crazed but not vulnerable Vanya.
O'Hare isn't playing Vanya. He's playing Mason Marzac in Take Me Out, Charles Guiteau in Assassins, Oscar Lindquist in Sweet Charity, and E.K. Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind.
After her raging success in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," actress Cate Blanchett is tackling another formidable stage classic.After her raging success in Tennessee Williams…
A lot happens in the four-act play, but little changes—but under Kathryn MacMillan’s direction in a powerfully affecting production by Lantern Theater Company, inertia has never …
The star of this opening season is the new theatre, The Rose in Kingston Upon Thames, but praising the theatre alone would be to take away from Peter Hall this engaging and touching producti…
Steven Skybell has always wanted to do "Uncle Vanya."
Amanda Plummer hasn't.
But they're both in Emily Mann's cast, when her translation of Chekhov's 1898 masterpiece begins performances on Tuesday at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
