Chekhov articles

  • Uncle Vanya review – Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

    Vivian Beaumont Theater, New YorkThe star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernityAs with Appropriate, another outstanding, claustrophobic family drama directed by Lila Neugebauer on Broadway this season, the new Broadway revival of Uncle Vanya, now playing at Lincoln Center, plays to the sound of oppressive heat. The trill of crickets, the buzz of cicadas – from the first minute, the setting is effectively muggy, at once...