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Anton Chekhov

Fuse News: Arts Emerson Presents a Magisterial “Three Sisters”

This is a beautifully directed staging (by Lev Dodin).

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Anton Chekhov, Arts Emerson, Helen Epstein, Maly Drama Theatre, Three Sisters

Film Review: “Winter Sleep” — Epic Lite

Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.

By: Paul Dervis Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: 14th Annual Turkish Film Festival, Anton Chekhov, Best Picture, Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Palme d'Or, Paul Dervis, Turkish Film Festival, Winter Sleep

Theater Review: A Languid “Seagull” at the Huntington Theatre Company

I do not remember disliking the characters in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” as much as I did in this production.

By: Iris Fanger Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Anton Chekhov, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Kate Burton, Maria Aitken, Paul Schmidt, The Seagull

Theater Interview: Stage Director Melia Bensussen on “Hard Love,” and “The Cherry Orchard”

“There is a struggle in love in the best of circumstances, and when on top of the daily challenges there are divisions of culture or society or simply of invented categories – well, that does make it all the harder.”

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Interview Tagged: Actors' Shakespeare Project, Anton Chekhov, Goethe Institut-Boston, Israeli Stage, Melia Bensussen, Motti Lerner, The Cherry Orchard, Theater

Theater Review: The Peterborough Players Stage a “Seagull” That Soars

The Peterborough Players have put together a “Seagull” that floats elegantly on nineteenth-century Russian and twenty-first-century American wings, simultaneously bright and dark.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Anton Chekhov, Jim Kates, Peterborough Players, Seagull

Fuse Theater Review: The Art of Escaping from Dread — Guillermo Calderón’s “Neva”

Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov’s widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Anton Chekhov, ArtsEmerson, Bianco Amato, Guillermo Calderón, Neva, Olga Knipper

Theater Review Round-up: Our Man in London

It should be pointed out that in London it is possible to see more shows in a limited time than one can do in the United States. Why? Because it has long been the sensible practice to stagger weekday matinees. By Caldwell Titcomb Shakespeare first, of course. The British quite rightly never tire of “Hamlet.” […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: “The Black Album, All's Well That Ends Well, Anton Chekhov, Arcadia, Bridge Project, Caldwell-Titcomb, Carrie's War, Caryl Churchill, Collaboration, Cottesloe, Dreams of Violence, Duet for One, Dysfunctional Family, England People Very Nice, Ethan Hawke, Francesca Annis, Hamlet, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Mirren, Henry Goodman, J. B. Priestley, Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Katori Hall, Lyttleton, Mark Rylance, Matt Charman, Max Stafford-Clark, Michael Grandage, Michael Morporgo, National-Theatre, Nazis, Nicholas Hytner, Olivier, Phèdre, Racine, Rebecca Hall, Richard Bean, Richard Strauss, Richard Wilbur, Ronald Harwood, Sam Mendes, Simon Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, Sir Richard Eyre, Stefan-Zweig, Stella Feehily, Ted Hughes, The Cherry Orchard, The Mountaintop, The Observer, The Silent Woman, The-Winters-Tale, Three More Sleepless Nights, tom-stoppard, War Horse, William Shakeseare, Wyndham Theatre

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