The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov's plays depict ...

Although Chekhov claimed the play was "a comedy, sometimes even a farce", audiences and readers frequently perceive a hint of ...

As a child growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, the best thing Štepán Šimek could say about Anton Chekhov's plays was that he thought they were "fine." That changed while working on a production of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. During this time when productions all over the world have been put on pause, we ...

Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the 1900 play by Anton Chekhov, is at the festival this year for the first time. By A.J. Goldmann What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that ...

In Cleveland, we're in our Chekhovian winter. We struggle. We suffer. We find (and make) humor where we can. And, however (and whenever) it may end, we can rest uncomfortably in the knowledge that ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

There’s an immersive production of a Chekhov play that happens every year with a cast that’s included a Tony winner, a Pulitzer winner and familiar faces from TV. But you’ve probably never heard of it ...

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...