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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.
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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
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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.
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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 08:32AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter, directed by David Cromer, has completed casting. The show will begin performances at the Laura Pels …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMFriday, July 5, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Roundabout Theatre Company's new production of The Cherry Orchard, starringDiane Lane, Chuck Cooper, Tavi Gevinson, John Glover, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Harold Pe…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:54PMSaturday, June 8, 2024
Jessica Lange as Lillian Hall, one of the great legends of the American theater, is about to star once again on Broadway in “The Cherry Orchard.” But she is collapsed on her bed, when…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMSunday, May 19, 2024
Nina Hoss as Ranevskaya in “The Cherry Orchard.” Photo by Johan Persson.May 19, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
The Cherry Orchard is one of my favorite plays. I was…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 07:48AMMonday, May 13, 2024
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I never watched horror movies before lockdown. Huddled in my apart ment as Covid-19 ravaged the country, I foun…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:03PMSunday, May 12, 2024
Donmar Warehouse; Lyric Hammersmith; Jermyn Street, LondonThe aged servant steals the show in a fast-paced 21st-century Chekhov, Max Webster’s dystopian sci-fi dazzles the eye but skips th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMFriday, May 3, 2024
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/3; Photo: The party’s over … Nina Hoss in The Cherry Orchard. Photograph: Johan Persson.) Donmar Warehouse, London Nina Hoss stars i…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:30PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonNina Hoss stars in a kookily immersive production but the devastating hammer blow of the Russian tragicomedy is not lost in translation
It is initially hard to fathom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMBenedict Andrews’s production in London offers perfectly pitched comedy where other directors find somber tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMBafta-winner Adeel Akhtar and ‘Tár’ star Nina Hoss are excellent, but Benedict Andrews’s clever but annoying contemporary Chekhov revival insists on a grating quirkiness
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:32AMMODERN ECHOES OF A DYING FALL Years ago I came out of a dullish production in Yorkshire of Chekhov’s last play, set very traditionally with samovar, parasols and big hats. A …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:48AMSunday, April 28, 2024
The star of Homeland and Tár on performing In The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar, working with Cate Blanchett, her Green party upbringing, and acting in a second language
Nina Hoss, 48, is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Benedict Andrews will direct his new version of the work.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMFriday, December 8, 2023
The Egg theatre, BathSet in the cherry orchard that Madame Ranevsky is preparing to leave, this story leads its young audience on a tactile adventure underground
Our host is making a list an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
The season marks artistic director Michael Longhurt's final season with the company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMTuesday, October 10, 2023
By Ron Fassler . . . When his country invaded Ukraine, Dmitry Krymov, a theater director of international reputation, was getting ready to come to the United States and direct Anton Chekho…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:31AMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Monday was an especially good night for the Goodman Theatre, winning for “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Who’s Tommy.”
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Andriy Bondarenko
Ghost Land
Translated by John Freedman with Vladyslav Hetmanenko
The Butterfly
Iura, a Ukrainian soldier (male, 20s – 40s)
Iuliia, Iura’s girlfriend/lover (female, 2…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 07:54AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Reviewed by G. Bruce Smith
Little Fish Theatre
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You don’t have to be familiar with Chekhov’s plays to enjoy the late…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:59PMWednesday, July 5, 2023
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Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin in “1776” (1969). Photo by Martha Swope.July 4, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
I’ve been writing 1776-themed columns on July 4…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:30PMThursday, June 8, 2023
Revivals have been a mainstay of Broadway for decades. But it wasn’t until the 31st ceremony in 1977 that the Tony Awards added a new category honoring these productions. The nominees for …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Extended by popular demand through May 7! Don't miss your chance to experience "The Cherry Orchard"—the production audiences are calling "engaging," "invigorating" and "phenomenal." Get ti…
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