Anton Chekhov

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URI stages Chekhov’s head-spinning Seagull

Writing what he knows
A loves B but marries C because B loves D, who loves E but eventually returns to B. Meanwhile, K, L, and M . . . . It's that sort of plot.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 07, 2011

URI stages Chekhov’s head-spinning Seagull

Writing what he knows
A loves B but marries C because B loves D, who loves E but eventually returns to B. Meanwhile, K, L, and M . . . . It's that sort of plot.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | December 07, 2011

Review: 2nd Story's uproarious The Good Doctor

When Neil met Anton
Neil Simon may not be the most subtle of playwrights, too often tempted beyond endurance to go for the gag at the expense of motivation.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | March 30, 2011

Review: Anton Chekhov's The Duel

Can Chekhov work on the big screen?
Can Chekhov work on the big screen?
By BRETT MICHEL | October 13, 2010

Wine and Chekhov

Failure: A Comic Strip
The cherry nerd orchard
By KARL STEVENS | June 02, 2010

Paul Giamatti can't heat up Cold Souls
What if human souls were as interchangeable as hearts, kidneys, movie concepts, and auto parts? Writer/director Sophie Barthes's feature debut toys with the notion, but instead of breaking new ground, Cold Souls settles for rehashing elements from other films.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 17, 2009

Review: ASP's The Duchess of Malfi, Nora's The Cherry Orchard

Dying breeds
T.S. Eliot famously opined that John Webster saw "the skull beneath the skin."
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2009

Touched by grace

Andre Dubus’s unending gifts
This, around November, when New England’s bones start to show — and I realized my heart was beating faster. The story had quickened my pulse.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | October 01, 2007

The mind’s eye

Trinity gets dramatic on WRNI
Several Trinity Repertory Company actors sit before microphones in a WRNI studio.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | April 03, 2007

Why blame Chekhov?

Eifman’s Seagull, plus [bjm_danse] and Susan Marshall
The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg have been scavenging Russian literature for 30 years now in search of suitably theatrical subjects.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 02, 2007

Bird brain

Boris Eifman’s The Seagull
The plays of Anton Chekhov don’t take well to dance.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 29, 2007

Terpsichore’s delight

The joys of spring dance
Traveling troupes and local dancemakers spring up around the Boston area this season.
By DEBRA CASH | March 13, 2007

Home fires

The Cherry Orchard; Brontë; Sailing Down the Amazon and Haiku
There’s not a samovar in sight, and American playwright Richard Nelson has sharpened and pared down the script.
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 17, 2007

Rethinking Chekhov

The Huntington steps into The Cherry Orchard
Conventional wisdom and introductory drama classes describe Anton Chekhov’s final masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard , as a prescient statement about his country’s future, written in 1903 as the playwright was dying.
By IRIS FANGER | December 28, 2006