Bob Blaisdell’s “Chekhov Becomes Chekhov” does exactly what its title promises: It tracks—story by story, month by month, sometimes day by day—how Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), the Moscow ...

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 ...

The title may sound irreverent - dismissive even - but don't think playwright Aaron Posner is giving the bird to Anton Chekhov's seminal classic "The Seagull" with his acclaimed 21st-century remix, ...

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 ...

Chekhov never wrote a play called The Present; that's what Australian adapter Andrew Upton calls his remodeled Platonov. Then again, Chekhov never wrote a play called Platonov; that's one of the ...

All of Anton Chekhov’s best plays offer an unsentimental look at the things that make human beings miserable: unrequited love, unrewarding work, unfulfilling relationships, the inevitability of aging ...

From tonight until February 1st, a show much loved by the public but contested by numerous critics will be at the Mercadante. 'I have just come through some heated weeks. However, if it's theater that ...