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Anton Chekhov

August 2024

  • Lindsay Duncan in Dear Octopus.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: comedians do Chekhov, Into the Woods and Dear Octopus

    Get a taste of Edinburgh fringe, enjoy Shakespearean insights from illustrious actors and sing along with a handful of musicals in our pick of streaming shows

June 2024

  • Blind Runner by Amir Reza Koohestani.

    Venice Biennale theatre: running from UK immigration and revisiting Chekhov

    A welcome glimpse of what is playing beyond Britain, this year’s programme includes a deeply moving drama of migrant jeopardy and an intriguing Three Sisters

May 2024

  • Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar facing each other on stage

    The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

  • Nina Hoss dancing on stage in The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar

    The Cherry Orchard review – Benedict Andrews brings Chekhov bang up to date

April 2024

  • Steve Carell and Alison Pill. Credit to Marc J. Franklin

    Uncle Vanya review – Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

    The star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernity

March 2024

  • Andrew Richardson (Astrov) and James Lance (Vanya) in Uncle Vanya at the Orange Tree theatre.

    Uncle Vanya review – Trevor Nunn triumphs with Chekhov’s tragicomedy

    This chamber staging, movingly played by an immaculate ensemble, fits perfectly with the drama’s hothouse of disappointment

February 2024

  • Andrew Scott at a National Theatre Live screening of Vanya in January.

    Andrew Scott: sex scenes less ‘embarrassing’ for audience if one actor plays both characters

    The Fleabag star, who took all eight roles in the solo show Vanya, says intimate scenes on stage can be discomfiting for viewers

December 2023

  • Midnight Mole at The Egg.

    Midnight Mole review – puppet’s cheery takeover of Chekhov’s garden

    Set in the cherry orchard that Madame Ranevsky is preparing to leave, this story leads its young audience on a tactile adventure underground

November 2023

  • Sigrid Thornton and Harry Greenwood

    The Seagull review – Sigrid Thornton and Toby Schmitz star in contemporary take on Chekhov

  • The Fourth Sister.

    The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott review – the deadliest slur of all?

October 2023

  • Richard Armitage.

    The books of my life
    Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

    The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

September 2023

  • Exceptional … Andrew Scott in Vanya.

    Vanya review – Andrew Scott excels in one-man Chekhov

  • Andrew Scott at Holborn Library

    Andrew Scott: ‘We need a bit more of people not liking things’

June 2023

  • Andrew Scott.

    Fleabag star Andrew Scott to bring one-man Uncle Vanya to West End

    Vanya, adapted by Simon Stephens, will see Scott tackle all of the characters in Chekhov’s play

November 2022

  • The Cherry Orchard.

    The Cherry Orchard review – Katie Mitchell presents the view from the trees

    The director’s latest eco-theatre production gives us fragments of Chekhov’s dialogue and a searing reading of our relationship with nature

September 2022

  • A scene from Handbagged by Moira Buffini @ Kiln Theatre.

    The week in theatre: Handbagged; The Cherry Orchard; Clutch – review

    Moira 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 for us all
  • The Cherry Orchard by Vinay Patel.

    The Cherry Orchard review – Chekhov in space

    Vinay Patel’s sci-fi adaptation boldly goes into the future on a rickety starship while exploring entrenched hierarchies and class
  • Tim Pigott-Smith in Mike Bartlett’s play King Charles III at Wyndham’s theatre, London, in 2014.

    From King Charles III to King Lear: what theatre tells us about taking the throne

    Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play anticipated a constitutional crisis, while playwrights including Shakespeare and Chekhov have shown how traumatic a transfer of power can be

July 2022

  • Emilia Clarke, Indira Varma, Daniel Monks and Tom Rhys Harries in The Seagull.

    The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

  • Soft and deliberately soporific … Emilia Clarke as Nina in The Seagull.

    The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic

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