Hawke's a Hit in Chekhov's 'Ivanov'
“Ivanov,” Anton Chekhov’s first produced play, can be hard to love, with its maddening titular protagonist in the throes of depression and the discursive, repetitive ways in which the characters speak. Nevertheless, it provides plenty of insight into the formation of one the world’s greatest playwrights, and in a production as good as director Austin Pendleton’s at Classic Stage Company,…