What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?

It runs through April 26. Over the past couple of years, Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” has been the hottest classic work to be produced by theater professionals. Currently, a one-man version ...

Laugh-out-loud funny and Chekhov are not words I have often had occasion to use in the same sentence. I've always associated the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov more with Russian misery ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with actor Hugh Bonneville about his starring role in the play Uncle Vanya, which is showing at D.C.'s Harman Hall.

He expresses his ongoing admiration for Anton Chekhov’s short stories and discusses how Whitney Houston’s music was important to him and his “chosen family” in his early years in New York.

Get a first look at the acclaimed adaptation by Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya starring Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) in the title role.

Right now, there are two major theatre productions of Anton Chekhov’s works in London, ‘The Seagull’ at the Barbican starring Cate Blanchett, and ‘Three Sisters’ at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Then there’s Chekhov’s gun. The Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov stipulated that if such a weapon were to appear in the first act of a play, it would have to be fired before the end.

The in-the-round staging reinforces the feeling that we are them and they are us. Chekhov plays lend themselves to almost infinite variations and approaches, and Andrews’s is relatively mild ...