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.

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 ...

The question, like a living being, hovers onstage in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. It hovers ... Trofimov’s bare feet—are engravings in a book of hours. It has been 120 years since the first ...

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Nor are writers themselves immune to this fixation with the full-length work: Cyril Connolly – one of life’s short-distance men, and all the better for it – was agonised by his failure to produce a ...

At last, someone sees Beckett in Chekhov… I’ve been saying for decades that Chekhov is Beckettian, but was anybody listening…? Rory Mullarkey, whose translation for this exceptional production helps ...