There isn’t a bad seat in the house at the Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. The small theater is an excellent venue for the ...

The Australian star will perform as Arkadina in a new version of Anton Chekhov's play at the Barbican Theatre in London from February. By Lily Ford Cate Blanchett will return to the stage for the ...

Anton Chekhov was the first playwright to drastically bend the trajectory of art toward life. His lasting influence — not just on theater but on all the arts and on our everyday understanding — has ...

Want to film a Chekhov play? First, you’ll need a house. Then some costumes and props, probably a samovar. Muster the money troubles, the love troubles, the antic clowning, the bone-crushing despair, ...

Phoebe Lloyd, left, and LIsa Velten Smith, portray Constantine and Arkadina in "Seagull" at Quantum Theatre. This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting ...

What’s the point of theatre? It’s the question that director Thomas Ostermeier - once the enfant terrible of German theatre, who famously said that directors over 40 should stop working, himself now ...

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MARSHFIELD A masterpiece like Anton Chekhov s The Seagull often cannot easily be defined. Real life is a mix of comedy, drama and tragedy, so shouldn t theater be as well? Unadilla Theatre s ...

From tonight until February 1st, a show much loved by the public but contested by numerous critics will be at the Mercadante. 'I have just come through some heated weeks. However, if it's theater that ...

Swelling, as it does, toward an exquisite climactic monologue on the subject of endurance itself, Anton Chekhov’s what’s-it-all-for? comedy The Seagull can afford to demand a bit of patience. But ...