This is a beautifully directed staging (by Lev Dodin).
Anton Chekhov
Film Review: “Winter Sleep” — Epic Lite
Winter Sleep is not the cinematic masterpiece so many have been hailing it to be.
Fuse 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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.” […]