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 pouches!), their wardrob…

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, who appears as the ch…

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 pulses through the room…

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. Booth, is the first of T…

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 demand through October 12…

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 join Oscar-winner H…

Next 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 V in Stratford-upon-…

Kenneth 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 by Richard Eyre, and …

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 two world-premiere p…

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 begins previews at the Ja…

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, currently promoting he…

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 become a giant of the st…

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 about to discard? Nina…

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 Exeunt Magazine NYC.

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 thrilling originality…

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 tragedy is so overwhelm…

★☆☆☆☆ 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 Stage Review.

Nina Hoss stars as a melancholic matriarch in Benedict Andrews’s immersive rendition of the classic at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

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 of her new musical a…

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.

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.

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 symphonic realism and equipp…

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 guide to Greek and Rom…

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, television and film sp…

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 Theatre at the Harol…

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 Perrineau and Joel Gre…

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 Kathy Bates as her …

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 first introduced to…

Originally published in Lincoln Center Theater ReviewView this story online I never watched horror movies before lockdown. Huddled in my apart­ ment as Covid-19 ravaged the country, I found myself scrolling p…

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 the mind, and a campai…

(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 in a kookily immersiv…

Donmar 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 where Benedict Andr…

Benedict Andrews’s production in London offers perfectly pitched comedy where other directors find somber tragedy.

Bafta-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

MODERN 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 reluctant chap behin…

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 German actor who won…

Benedict Andrews will direct his new version of the work.

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 and checking it twice.…

The season marks artistic director Michael Longhurt's final season with the company.

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 Chekhov’s The Cherry Orc…

Monday was an especially good night for the Goodman Theatre, winning for “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Who’s Tommy.”

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, 20s – 30s) Orestes,…

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike   Reviewed by G. Bruce Smith Little Fish Theatre Through September 3 RECOMMENDED You don’t have to be familiar with Chekhov’s plays to enjoy the latest offering by Littl…

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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 4th for seven years n…

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 the inaugural prize …

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 tickets at GoodmanThea…

The last great production of The Cherry Orchard I saw was at Steppenwolf, nearly 20 years ago. Tina Landau turned the company’s upstairs theater into a near-immersive experience, with Riccardo Hernández’s …

For Goodman's current production of Anton Chekhov’s "The Cherry Orchard," Robert Falls has adapted the classic for speed and to make the laugh lines snap so wickedly hard that they elevate the play’s pathos…

Anton Chekhov’s play, as adapted by the director and performed by many of Falls’ favorite actors, is everything I had hoped it would be. Everything and more.

After stepping down from the helm of the Chicago theatre he ran for 36 years, he's directing---what else?---Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard.'

For the last play he programmed as Goodman’s artistic director, Falls chose a masterpiece about change and endings—Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”

This April, Robert Falls—"Chicago's Most Essential Director" (Chicago Tribune)—returns to the Goodman to adapt and direct Chekhov's iconic play, THE CHERRY ORCHARD. On stage starting April 1—don't miss yo…

"Tragic things happen but it's also quite funny." Director Robert Falls describes why THE CHERRY ORCHARD is a special and timeless play that all audiences can relate to. Tickets are officially on sale now! Don…

As an inveterate theatergoer since the age of twelve, I’ve chronicled in these columns and elsewhere about the days when I saw shows on a weekly basis in the late 60s and early 70s. I’ve also made it known …

Deutsches Schauspielhaus, HamburgThe director’s latest eco-theatre production gives us fragments of Chekhov’s dialogue and a searing reading of our relationship with nature The orchard of Chekhov’s play h…

There’s no shortage of great Australian plays. But when it comes to restagings, local work is consistently overlooked in favour of Miller, Chekov, Albee and Shakespeare Get our weekend culture and lifestyle …

The illustrious ballet dancer on natural insecurity, his defection from the USSR to Canada – and how his body feels these days Mikhail Baryshnikov, 74, is the finest ballet dancer of his generation. Born in R…

Kiln; Yard; Bush, LondonMoira Buffini’s damning satire imagining the Queen’s weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher acquires poignancy; James Macdonald directs Chekhov in outer space; and a driving lesson f…

The Yard, London – until 22 October 2022 Through his most recent play An Adventure, writer Vinay Patel proved he can masterfully sustain family dramas grappling with big themes. By sticking close to Chekhov�…

The Yard, LondonVinay Patel’s sci-fi adaptation boldly goes into the future on a rickety starship while exploring entrenched hierarchies and class There is still a cherry orchard in this Chekhov adaptation �…

What might Anton Chekov, that Russian master of the nineteenth century, have to say about the current climate crisis? A recent production of The Cherry Orchard by PETE (Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble) p…

By EDWARD RUBIN I seem to remember reading, in all of the hoopla surrounding the Baryshnikov Art Center’s Production of Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, somebody saying “Unlike anything that you ever saw befo…

While in-person theatre is back in NYC, there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, July 1 to Monday July 4, for free or at low cost. Sun…

By JK Clarke . . .  Let’s go back to the beginning and remind ourselves that Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is fundamentally about social change. Almost cataclysmic social change in some ways—and unk…

Such an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov as trans…

By: Bernard Carragher June 24, 2022: "The Orchard," based on Anton Chekov's 1903 play "The Cherry Orchard" is at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on 37th Street and acted by the Arlekin Players Theatre and (zero…

This Breaking Bad actress stars with Mikhail Baryshnikov in 'the Orchard.' The play is an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.

While in-person theatre is back in NYC, there are still wonderful shows to stream at home. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Friday, June 24 to Sunday, June 26, for free or at low cost. …

By: David Sheward June 21, 2022: The prospect of the great ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht, one of our most versatile and expressive actresses, in a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s cl…

Classics remain classics because they speak to us-no matter when they were written or where they are set. In a newly-imagined version of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” a family remains stuck in the past.…

The in-person and virtual show is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

See The Cherry Orchard like you've never seen it before.

An anachronistic reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, the last work by the esteemed Russian playwright, written in 1903, is now making its Off-Broadway debut in a limited engagement at Baryshnik…

The moments in “The Orchard” that suggest the current Russian invasion of Ukraine would surely get the most attention in a more conventionally focused adaptation of “The Cherry Orchard”:  About halfwa…