Anton Chekhov’s plays aren’t what you’d call uplifting. The Russian playwright’s works from the mid-1880s to early 1900s were mostly dark and wistful stories about wealthy families losing everything, ...

Anton Chekhov’s classic “The Cherry Orchard” depicts a rural aristocratic family at the end of the 19th century whose world has been upended by Czar’s emancipation of the serfs. The lady of the estate ...

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages? By Jason ...

When Anton Chekhov’s first play, “The Seagull,” premiered in St. Petersburg in 1896, opening night was a disaster. If the stories are true, Chekhov was embarrassed enough to duck out halfway through ...

The contemporary setting of Heidi Schreck’s translation of “Uncle Vanya” feels so natural that one could miss the change entirely. Even as the setting of a 19th century Russian estate is transformed ...

Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” returns to the stage in a new production at the Odyssey Theatre in DTLA. With its exploration of human relationships and artistic struggles, this celebrated work ...