Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of the Russian writer Anton Chekov circa 1890-1904. (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) The hectic ...

Top revivals of two classics—Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera and Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard—are being performed in Brooklyn this month. The Threepenny Opera is being presented at the ...

The Australian star will perform as Arkadina in a new version of Anton Chekhov's play at the Barbican Theatre in London from February. By Lily Ford Cate Blanchett will return to the stage for the ...

Parker Posey as the grande dame in a Chekhov masterpiece? Wait, wasn’t it yesterday that she was the gum-snapping ingenue in “Waiting for Guffman”? And the kooky Lex Luthor sidekick in “Superman ...

A mainstay of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he later started a rival theater group. He also appeared in “Return of the Jedi.” By Fred Monyak The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Darryn King writes about arts and culture of all kinds. “It’s mostly entailed rehearsing the play, reading some biographies and ...

I will be the first to admit I am not an expert on the works of Chekhov. Widely regarded as one of the fathers of modernism in theater, Anton Chekhov is known for his storytelling realism. His ...

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 ...

From 60-minute plays to marathon dramas, surviving the festival and the Fringe isn’t about finding a common thread — it’s about surrendering to the chaos. By Helen Shaw Over 40 years after his ...