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Tag: Anton Chekhov

Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: THREE SISTERS TWO (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz February 12, 2019 No Comments

Chuck Schultz gives his thoughts in words and sketch

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: LYDIE BREEZE Part 3: MADAKET ROAD (EgoPo)

Chuck Schultz April 17, 2018 No Comments

The EgoPo Classical Theater’s production of John Guare’s Lydie Breeze part III was asking the fundamental question, “what is ‘it’.”

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Reviews Theater

LYDIE BREEZE PART ONE: COLD HARBOR (EgoPo): Ambitious, sprawling, but emotionally hollow

Julius Ferraro February 5, 2018 No Comments

COLD HARBOR is fast-paced and skillfully produced, with a large, stylistically diverse cast, but at its emotional core it is stiff and distant.

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Reviews Theater

UNCLE VANYA (Quintessence): Tedious boring people

Cameron Kelsall June 18, 2017 No Comments

Good productions of Chekhov remind us of how vital his work still can be. Bad productions feed the narrative that his plays are dated, charmless, and inconsequential.

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seagull EgoPo review
Reviews Theater

SEAGULL (EgoPo): A comedy of torn hearts and thwarted dreams

Kathryn Osenlund February 8, 2017 No Comments

The pathetically unfulfilled romantic expectations! The sad characters and absurd human comedy! EgoPo nails it, and beautifully. Sketches by Chuck Schultz.

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Reviews Theater

STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Arden): A sidesplitting and insightful reinvention of Chekhov

Debra Miller September 22, 2016 No Comments

Aaron Posner’s hilarious reinvention of The Seagull captures all of Chekhov’s laughable characters, absurdities of life, and self-references to the theater from a 21st-century perspective.

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF (Wee Keep Company): 2015 Fringe review 23

Christopher Munden September 8, 2015 No Comments

By exploring the way performances interact with the world in which they are made, THREE SISTERS AND A WOLF shows how Chekhov can thrive in the wilds of PA.

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Mary McDonnell and Olivia Mell in THE CHERRY ORCHARD at People’s Light (Photo credit: Mark Garvin)
Reviews Theater

THE CHERRY ORCHARD (People’s Light): Capturing the comedy, insight, and pathos of Chekhov

Debra Miller February 15, 2015 4 Comments

Completed in 1904, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s final dramatic work, is the most often staged of all Russian plays worldwide, and its production at…

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New Paradise Laboratories The Adults Fringe
Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

THE ADULTS (New Paradise Laboratories): Fringe Review 20

Debra Miller September 9, 2014 No Comments

Rhrough minimal, absurd dialogue and highly stylized, disjointed movement, the ensemble-devised work evokes the boredom and bad behavior of a privileged vacationing family of film artists and their guests.

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Reviews Theater

Conversations on Chekhov: What gimmicks? The Arden’s THREE SISTERS has a lasting effect

Jessica Foley April 25, 2014 15 Comments

In September of 1900 Anton Chekhov confessed in a letter to his actress-wife Olga Knipper: “I find it very difficult to write THREE SISTERS, much more…

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Reviews Theater

Stirring BLACK MONK Offered Up by Simpatico

Christopher Munden April 16, 2012 No Comments

“Forget all the laws of optics, which the legend does not recognize” —Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk Attempting to summarize the best modernist short stories…

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Previews Theater

Simpatico concludes its Philadelphia season with David Rabe’s THE BLACK MONK

Christopher Munden April 3, 2012 No Comments

“She began dressing, too. Only now, looking at her, Kovrin realised the danger of his position — realised the meaning of the black monk and…

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