Chekhov’s “Sakhalin Island,” his long investigation of prison conditions in Siberia, is the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century.

Both have the teachings of Michael Chekhov to thank. His acting philosophy, which is still influencing many successful performers today, is integral to the history of drama. Read on for details ...

“Life Sucks.,” the title of Aaron Posner’s frolicsome riff on Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” contains a period. But a question mark might be more in keeping with the spirit of this ...

As Chekhov’s most engaging biographer, Ernest Simmons, once put it: Chekhov “loved life more than the meaning of life.” He took his pleasures small, intimate, and frequent.

Chekhov’s characters are famous for always loving the wrong person. In “Uncle Vanya,” both Vanya and Astrov pine for Yelena, the young second wife of the much older, ...

Well, in the production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" now playing here in Washington, the gun goes off, and it is fired by none other than Uncle Vanya, played by Hugh Bonneville, who I have the ...

This version of Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy is called “The Seagull/Woodstock, NY,” directed by Scott Elliott and set in a present-day arty enclave about 90 miles north of Manhattan.

How lucky we are, then, that Chekhov’s first full-length play, “The Seagull,” is getting a fine, full-throttle production at Pullman Yards by Atlanta-based Performance Jam through Sept. 8.

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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 ...