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 ...

It’s a prediction that has been tweaked over the years. Since Julius West’s door-opening English-language translation, all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard will ...

Broadway found room this spring for classics from two titans of modern drama — Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” and Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” It’s thrilling that at such an uncertain time ...

Yet Chekhov's charms are subtle, and some readers find themselves underwhelmed after the first encounter. One contrite member this of this camp is essayist and short-story writer Steven Barthelme, who ...

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 “Drive My Car,” a lovely movie about the interior dramas we all carry around through life, a multilingual group of actors have come to Hiroshima to prepare a production of Anton Chekhov’s 1898 play ...

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 ...

The document, posted on the institute’s official website on Oct. 7, includes writers, artists, researchers, government officials, military officers, engineers, and other notable political or cultural ...

Man in a Case: Drama. Stories by Anton Chekhov. Adapted and directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar. Through Feb. 16. Big Dance Theater at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. 70 ...

They belonged to two different social classes and two different generations. However, there was great mutual respect and admiration between Russian writers: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and Anton Chekhov ...