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 ...

Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert is in Shanghai presenting the French production of Anton Chekhov's play "The Cherry Orchard" (La Cerisaie) from April 11 to 13. Isabelle Huppert (second ...

It shaped me, made me compassionate about other people’s stories,” an excerpt from the book read ... Kotcheff said Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was his “favorite writer.” ...

Whether your sense of hell is literal or metaphorical, the concept predates Christianity, according to the new Penguin Book of Hell. “Despite all our recourse to reason and compassion,” says e ...

This adaptation from their book views Henry Morton Stanley’s ... appreciation and leave nothing behind but the cellar.” Anton Chekhov saw Stanley’s “stubborn invincible striving towards ...

Written by world-renowned Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, ‘Uncle Vanya’ follows its eponymous lead and his niece Sonya as their family’s secluded estate is enlivened by a variety of visitors—namely ...

The texts in his Penguin Book of Demons predate this inward turn, however. Ranging from medieval hagiographies to the poetry of Walter Scott to folk tales from Virginia, they depict demons as ...