New American Ensemble has extended its world premiere staging of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov. Glenn Fitzgerald, seen on Broadway ...

Chekhovek,” a theatrical collage of Anton Chekhov’s short stories directed by Melania Levitsky, runs March 20–22 at Park ...

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 ...

The course of true art never did run smooth.Those aren’t his words, or even Shakespeare’s, but Anton Chekhov would have ...

FIFTY-TWO STORIES. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Knopf. 508 pages. $35. In a lecture published posthumously in 1981, Vladimir Nabokov had this to say about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees. By Joshua Hammer Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the 1900 play by ...

A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard will begin previews at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan on June 7. The new play, The Orchard, will be performed live through July 3 and ...

Russia’s “last great writer,” is a mysterious figure. His plays depict stories from late 19th-century imperial Russia, a time ...