A month in the country could drive anyone mad, even if all appears idyllic at first. It's August 1912 and the Tyrones " namely the veteran thespian James, his wife Mary and their two grown-u…
Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre will bring its modern interpretation of Uncle Vanya to London's Noel Coward Theatre beginning performances Nov. 5 for a run through Nov. 10 only.
Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre will present Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, November 5-10. Rimas Tuminas has directed the production, which fe…
Russian theatre company Vakhtangov is to stage its production of Uncle Vanya in the West End this autumn.
Uncle Vanya, which revived as the first production in Chichester's 50th anniversary season opened last week (5 April 2012, previews from 30 March), half a century after Laurence Olivier dire…
Moscow-based company Vakhtangov Theatre will bring Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya to the Noël Coward this November, the second transfer in what producers hope could be a regular Russian th…
Michael Shannon (Mistakes Were Made), Reed Birney (A Small Fire) and Merrit Weaver (The Illusion) will star in Annie Baker’s off-Broadway adaptation of Uncle Vanya, according to The Ne…
Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, Tony nominees Maria Dizzia and Peter Friedman, as well as Reed Birney and Georgia Engel have been announced to appear in the new adaptation of Anton Ch…
Casting has been announced for Soho Repertory Theatre's production of Annie Baker's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, to run June 7-July 15. Sam Gold will direct the …
Michael Shannon, Reed Birney and Merritt Wever will be in the cast of Annie Baker's adaptation of the Chekhov play.
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: The 50th anniversary season at Chichester opens with a straightforward, unexceptional revival of Uncle Vanya, a play that was directed by Laurence Olivier - who …
We appear to be in the middle of a glut of Vanyas this spring, this is the second in a batch of three. I don’t know what the other two are going to be like but Jeremy Harrin’s pr…
In a solid opening to this year's Chichester season, the best performances come in the most incidental roles, writes Ian Shuttleworth
In a solid opening to this year's Chichester season, the best performances come in the most incidental roles, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Print Room, London; Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Finborough, LondonThe tiny Print Room delivers classic plays with a magnified immediacy. Lucy Bailey's lovely Uncle Vanya is played in the round…
Minerva, ChichesterIt was Olivier's legendary production of this play 50 years ago that put the new Chichester theatre on the map, and there are times when Jeremy Herrin's production seems l…
Caryl Brahms, an astute critic and a funny writer, said that characters in Chekhov always harked back to their beginnings but learnt no lesson from their past; they were content to sit aroun…
Life is full of uncertainties, and the way we each decide how to deal with this is very revealing. When you add love to the mix, you only muddle it all further. Chekhov knew it and he had th…
The Print Room, London: There's a feverish quality to Lucy Bailey's atmospheric production of Chekhov's melancholy masterpiece. Her staging heightens the claustrophobia of the…
A play of boundaries, limitations, barriers, one that gazes outwards while never crossing the threshold, Uncle Vanya is often betrayed by the physical space of major stagings. In a new produ…
A witty translation, an evocative, claustrophobic setting, performances that hum with trapped energy " this is great Chekhov, writes Sarah Hemming
She is determined to wed the man she loves. In John Webster's grisly Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi " staged by Jamie Lloyd " Eve Best plays the titular heroine as a naturally sensual…
The Print Room, LondonA Chekhov mini-season, with another Vanya opening next week in Chichester, kicks off with Lucy Bailey's fine revival of this sublime play. If I withhold greater pr…
The Print Room has rapidly established itself as an essential fringe venue in an atmospheric converted warehouse in Westbourne Grove, and its first classic, Uncle Vanya, thrives on a “…
Casting has been announced for the Target Margin Theater's re-imagined production of Uncle Vanya, which will begin a limited engagement April 26 at HERE.