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Anton Chekhov

Coping and Laughing With Uncle Vanya

Matt Budd | Posted 04.08.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Broadway, Christopher Durang, Anton Chekhov, Randall Honey Badger, Vanya-and-Sonia-and-Masha-and-Spike-Review, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Entertainment News
Matt Budd

Coffee cups crashing to the floor upset a tranquil Bucks County morning at the opening of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike the hilarious new Christopher Durang play now running at the Golden Theatre on Broadway.

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First Nighter: Clive, Moose Murders Include Deaths in More Ways Than One

David Finkle | Posted 04.09.2013 | Arts
Read More: Csc, Steven Carl McCasland, "You Must Come in at the Door, Ali Bernstein, Jordan Tierney, " the New Group, Orlando Iriarte, " Brooks Ashmanskas, Ethan Hawke, " "Hurlyburly, " Post-World War I Germany, Dennis Delbene, Anna Kirkland, " the Connelly Theater, Anton Chekhov, "Clive, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Doc Watson, "Women & Wallace, Brittany Velotta, Derek McLane, " Tom Waits, "Baal, Bertolt Brecht, Zoe Kazan, Cory Boughton, " "Moose Murders, The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, "Ivanov, Noelle Stewart, The Acorn Theatre, " Vincent D'Onofrio, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Caroline Rosenblum, Arts News
David Finkle

I'm only left to report that in one extraordinary week I saw both Clive and Moose Murders and am prepared in both instances to cry, "Murder most foul!" Which was worse? Please don't ask.

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'Chekhov's Enlightenment'

Francis Levy | Posted 03.13.2013 | Books
Read More: William Butler Yeats, Gary Saul Morson, The New Criterion, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Books News
Francis Levy

Rather than Enlightenment figures like Locke, you might say that Chekhov had more in common with Edmund Burke to the extent that his skepticism and anti-millenarianism were rooted in the doctor's understanding of the complexity of pathology.

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The Joseph Epstein Cult

Francis Levy | Posted 12.06.2012 | Books
Read More: Michael Gorra, Anton Chekhov, Henry James, Joseph Epstein, Books News
Francis Levy

Joseph Epstein's "The James cult" in the October 2012 The New Criterion is a terrific essay. He calls himself a Jacobite, a wonderful locution in and ...

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Theater: Ethan Hawke and Richard Nixon at Their Finest

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.15.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Anthony Lapaglia, Joely Richardson, Theater, Ethan Hawke, Anton Chekhov, Kathryn Erbe, Juliet Rylance, Video, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Going to see Ivanov was one of the first times I'd left my Long Island City neighborhood since the storm and despite an hour on the train and then walking 30 or so blocks to get there, it was very welcome indeed.

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On the Culture Front: Bogota, a Developing Metropolis

Chris Kompanek | Posted 11.14.2012 | New York
Read More: Andres Mountains, Monserrate, Botero Museum, Gold Museum, Anton Chekhov, Bogota, Ibero-American Theater Festival, Colombia, Donka: A Letter to Chekhov, Bam, Zipaquira, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Bogota is both a confounding and beautiful city. Nestled below the Andes mountains, the expansive developing metropolis doesn't reveal its charms easily, but rather holds them close as tightly guarded secrets.

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The Year of Reading Communally

Dave Astor | Posted 08.15.2012 | Books
Read More: Short Stories, Time-Travel Novels, Time Travel, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Henry Fielding, Gogol, Mary Shelley, Khaled Hosseini, Donald Westlake, Cats, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anton Chekhov, Jonathan Franzen, French Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Mordecai Richler, Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Chevalier, Dogs, Booth Tarkington, Jeffrey Eugenides, Books News
Dave Astor

My first "HuffPost Books" piece was posted a year ago this month, and I'd like to use that trivial anniversary to thank commenters for introducing me to many authors and novels I had never read before.

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Mad Science: David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group's Restless Eye

Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 03.27.2012 | Arts
Read More: Victoria Roberts-Wierzbowski, New York Live Arts, The Cherry Tree, Anton Chekhov, Neurosky, Andrew Dinwiddie, Jeremy Olson, Dance, Restless Eye, David Neumann, Advanced Beginner Group, Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Arts News
Margaret Fuhrer

"I'm interested in an irrational response to our perceived place in the universe." So says choreographer David Neumann in his program notes for Rest...

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Theater: Wiest and Turturro Lost In "Orchard;" Skip This "Dinner"

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.05.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Dianne Wiest, Off-Broadway, The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov, The-Man-Who-Came-to-Dinner, John Turturro, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

THE CHERRY ORCHARD AT CSC ** THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER AT THEATRE AT ST. CLEMENT'S ** THE CHERRY ORCHARD ** CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY Why oh why is Che...

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Curtis M. Wong

Stage Dive: Michael Urie Tackles Anton Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard' In New York

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 11.26.2011 | Gay Voices
Read More: Off Broadway, Off-Broadway Theater, The Temperamentals, Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, Michael Urie the Cherry Orchard, Ugly Betty, Michael Urie Ugly Betty, Angels in America, Michael Urie, Gay Actors, New York Theater, New York, New York City, Video, Gay Voices News

Michael Urie happens to really, really like New York. At least by Hollywood standards, the 31-year-old Urie's almost exclusive devotion to the Of...

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PHOTOS: 10 People You Would Never Have Wanted To Duel

Posted 10.31.2011 | Books
Read More: Giacomo Casanova, Melville House, Melville House Hybrid Books, Heinrich Von Kleist, Hybrid Books, Anton Chekhov, The Duel, Alexander Kuprin, Joseph Conrad, Books News

From Melville House: Melville House’s new HybridBooks project allows readers of print books to download additional materials, called “Illuminat...

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The 10 Best Literary Picnics

The Observer | Kate Kellaway | Posted 08.31.2011 | Books
Read More: Virginia Woolf, Emma, Joan Lindsay, To the Lighthouse, Ian McEwan, Women in Love, Anton Chekhov, Jane Austen, Martin Amis, Picnics, DH Lawrence, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Literary Picnics, Books News

In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…...

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Chekhov Alive and Well in Hollywood: Two One-Acts at the Tres Stage Theatre

Michael Russnow | Posted 08.01.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Theatre, The Proposal, Jennifer Vincent, LA Events, The Bear, Justin Baltz, Marx Brothers, Ram Productions International, Hollywood, Little Theatre, Satire, Anton Chekhov, John Baltz, Tres Stage Theatre, Michael Russnow, La Around Town, Russ Andrade, Amazon Beard, Katherine King, LA Culture, Los Angeles News
Michael Russnow

Classical theatre may not be your thing, but this is an evening that most would find accessible and to their liking. And as an added bonus it's cheap, with tickets just ten dollars.

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First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display

David Finkle | Posted 07.05.2011 | Arts
Read More: Stephen Spinella, Michael Cristofer, Eli Yale, Slavs!, Steven Pasquale, Danielle Skraastad, Robert Browning, Matt Servitto, Angels in America, Michael Esper, Linda Emond, Arthur Miller, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Michael Greif, A Bright Room Called Day, Hettiene Park, K. Todd Freeman, Anton Chekhov, Brenda Wehle, Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, The Public Theater, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Molly Price, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, Or Change, Andrea Del Sarto, Eugene O'Neill, Homebody/Kabul, Arts News
David Finkle

Kushner has produced a play also reminiscent of Arthur Miller at the top of his form, a play about which many ticket buyers will conclude he's equaled Miller's best.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Open in 'Three Sisters' at the Classic Stage Company

Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Josh Hamilton @Y:Entertainment, Peter Sarsgaard, Josh Hamilton, Academy Awards, Off-Broadway Play, Anton Chekhov, Classic Stage Company, Slidepollajax, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hecht, Three Sisters, Entertainment News
Curtis M. Wong

Those unfamiliar with Chekhov's Three Sisters and thus expecting a powerhouse performance from either Gyllenhaal or Sarsgaard might be surprised to learn that this play is very much an ensemble piece.

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All the World's a Stage: The Sesquicentennial of Anton Chekhov's Birth

James Scarborough | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Theatre Des Abbesses, The Goodman Theatre, Anton Chekhov, Nick Ormerod, Declan Donnellan, The Seagull, Anton Tchekjov, Robert Falls, The Three Sisters, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, La Noce, Vladimir Pankov, Arts News
James Scarborough

For anyone who takes inspiration from one Muse or another and has wondered how to compartmentalize that pursuit with other dreary and more pedestrian ...

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John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes

The New York Review of Books | Edmund White | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, John Cheever Stories, Short Stories, The Wapshot Chronicle, Anton Chekhov, Salinger, Books, Blake Bailey, Nyr, Falconer, John Cheever Biography, John Cheever, John Cheever Books, Books News

The Strange Charms of John Cheever Edmund White The New York Review of Books "Cheever: A Life" by Blake Bailey Knopf/Vintage, 770 pp., $35.00; $16.9...

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