In the beginning there was a play by Anton Chekov that was simply called “a long play without a title”. He’d written a first draft of it in 1878, later called it Fatherlessness. He gave it to his older brother Alexander who told him he found it untruthful, and suggested he give up playwrighting altogether. […] The post Review: ‘The Present’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre appeared f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AM on January 9, 2017