Monday, April 20, 2026
The new version of the Russian dramatist's final play has been adapted by Olivier-winning playwright Laura Wade.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Spaceballs star Bill Pullman will make his Royal Shakespeare Company debut, joining the already-announced Kenneth Branagh and Helen Hunt in a new adaptation of Chekhov�…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:37PMWednesday, April 1, 2026
Conor McPherson's new adaptation of Chekhov's classic will be directed by Ian Rickson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMIan Rickson and Kristin Scott Thomas reunite for Conor McPherson’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s classic at the Harold Pinter Theatre
The post The Cherry Orchard to star Kristin Scott Thom…
SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:33AMWednesday, March 18, 2026
Olivier theatre, LondonWriters Nina and Moses Raine add comedy and raunch to Maxim Gorky’s satire of the holidaying elite
In 1898, Maxim Gorky wrote a fan letter to Anton Chekhov. Gorky wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMTuesday, March 17, 2026
Elizabeth A. Davis is getting a new set of fangs. The Tony nominee will play Valerie Bloodlove in select performances of the off-Broadway musical Blood/Love, serving as an alternate for the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMMonday, February 2, 2026
The show: “Oedipus,” created by Robert Icke, “after Sophocles,” on Broadway.
What makes it special?: It’s not often you get to see a Greek tragedy on Broadway. However, this is no…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:54PMSunday, January 4, 2026
Directing the likes of Alicia Vikander, Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman on stage, the Australian director is returning to Adelaide festival with a bold new take on The Cherry Orchard
Get our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMWednesday, December 10, 2025
A FIRST-HAND REPORT ON NEW YORK THEATRE . . . FROM A HALF-CENTURY AGO
Alan Bates in the title role of Simon Gray’s “Butley,” which played the old and venerable Morosco Theatre (197…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:00AMTuesday, December 9, 2025
Brooke Adams and Marilu Henner have been tapped as the latest additions to the rotating cast of Pen Pals, which has been extended four times off-Broadway. The duo will star as Bernie and Ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Monday, October 20, 2025
At the start of every performance of Liberation, Susannah Flood walks on stage with the house lights still up and delivers a funny monologue about the audience’s phones (all locked in pouc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
The production by Adult Film, in association with BKE Productions, incorporates a multimedia approach to telling the story, based on a translation and adaptation by John Christopher Jones, w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMSunday, September 28, 2025
The Acton Off-Broadway Theatre Review: The Cherry Orchard at Rutgers Presbyterian Church By Acton Time goes by so slowly for those who wait. Madonna’s time-bending 2005 hit Hung Up pul…
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Lee Kirk’s new Chicago-set drama Ashland Avenue is now on stage through October 12 at The Goodman Theatre. The world-premiere production, directed by Walter Artistic Director Susan V. Boot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMMonday, September 15, 2025
Don't miss your chance to experience ASHLAND AVENUE starring Jenna Fischer (THE OFFICE) and Francis Guinan (THE CHERRY ORCHARD) and a powerhouse ensemble of actors. Extended by popular deman…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:19PMThursday, September 11, 2025
Kenneth Branagh and Helent Hunt will be starring in upcoming productions at The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Branagh will star as Prospero in The Tempest, directed by Richard Eyre, and he will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMNext summer, the star will appear in Stratford-upon-Avon first as Prospero and then alongside Helen Hunt in Chekhov’s classic
More than 40 years after his star-making performance as Henry …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMKenneth Branagh, a titan of the stage, returns to his Royal Shakespeare Company roots for the first time in more than three decades next year to star as Prospero in The Tempest, directed b…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:01PMTuesday, August 12, 2025
When Goodman Theatre opened its doors in fall of 1925, its first audiences were treated to ground-breaking new plays; now, one hundred years later, Chicago audiences are first to experience …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMMonday, August 11, 2025
The complete cast of Bess Wohl’s em>Liberation, will reprise their roles when the production moves to Broadway this fall. Directed by Whitney White, the limited 14-week engagement begin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMFriday, August 8, 2025
Kristin Scott Thomas will reportedly return to the stage in a West End revival of The Cherry Orchard. Deadline's Baz Bamigboye exclusively reported that the British stage and screen star, cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMFriday, July 18, 2025
Dorfman theatre, LondonShaan Sahota’s play sets a British-Sikh politician’s schemes against his family betrayal – a tremendous debut from a writer of huge promise
Adeel Akhtar has beco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSaturday, June 21, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Benedict Andrews’ reinvention of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann’s Warehouse raises the devastating question of our era: When change comes, what becomes of the world we’re ab…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:01AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Benedict Andrews finds the comedy in Chekhov's final play, but does he lose Chekhov? Carol Rocamora reviews.
The post Review: The Cherry Orchard at St. Ann’s Warehouse appeared first on Ex…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 07:42PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
The results of this updating are bold, and Andrews’ intellectual ambition is undeniable. At times, his revisions might seem questionable but when the production clicks, it strikes with a t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:59PMFriday, April 4, 2025
Chekov called The Cherry Orchard a comedy, and that designation has been a bone of contention through the years, with many great artists searching to find the comedy he refers to, as the tra…
SOURCE: The Front Row Center at 02:47PM★☆☆☆☆ Adapter-director Benedict Andrews offers a questionable new take on the classic
The post The Cherry Orchard: Anton Chekhov Gets an Unforgiving Axe appeared first on New York …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:59AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Nina Hoss stars as a melancholic matriarch in Benedict Andrews’s immersive rendition of the classic at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
On Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025, as a part of Prospect Musicals' IGNITE concert series, the American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Award Winner Emily Xu Hall will present a concert performance …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMFriday, March 21, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Underwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of “The Cherry Orchard” that aims to recapture Chekhov’s winking tone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMUnderwater drama, a daunting solo undertaking, a gaggle of students and a version of “The Cherry Orchard” that aims to recapture Chekhov’s winking tone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThursday, February 13, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
The Oscar winner stars in the German director’s production of the Chekhov classic where ‘everything is open to interpretation’
How does one stage Chekhov? His plays, embodying symphoni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMMonday, January 13, 2025
Sophocles’ classic about the bitter pursuit of justice – now revived by Daniel Fish – reveals fresh truths each time
Why do we so rarely see Sophocles’ Electra? John Burgess, in a gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Sunday, September 15, 2024
The actor on the extraordinary second life of her stage career, learning lines in your 80s, and the secret of her long marriage
Born in Edinburgh in 1935, June Watson’s career on stage, te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM 
