Anton Chekhov News

This is not your grandmother's Cherry Orchard.

Playwrights Festival Awards Announced! New discounts at FPCT and Toby's Baltimore! Spelling Bee Winners Announced! New shows at the Hippodrome, CenterStage and Rep Stage!

Tons of new shows opening! Contest for the Spelling Bee! Best Bets at Everyman and Toby's Baltimore! Backstage at Mamma Mia! Theatre Artists doing more than theatre!

Curt Columbus is the new Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company. On September 20, 2006 he will have his first opening night of his first show at Trinity, He is directing Anton Chekhov's 'Cherry Orchard', which he also translated.

A listing of shows currently running or scheduled to open in the next week.

Lawrence J. Sacharow, director of the theatre program at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and Obie Award-winning director of Len Jenkin's 'Five of Us,' died Monday, August 14, at New York Hospital, of complications from leukemia. He was 68.

WHO: Spotlighters Theatre WHAT: Just for Laffs: An Evening of Chekhov WHEN: Fri. and Sat. at 8PM, Sun. at 7PM HOW MUCH: $15.00

Each summer Niagara-on-the-Lake - one of the most beautiful places in all of Southern Ontario - becomes a theatre lover's dream as the Shaw Festival offers a series of 10 plays and musicals.

Anton, a play about Chekhov by Pierre Van Dur Spuy, will run from January 10th through 29th

You can love a Chekhov play or hate it, but like a fine wine or a particularly poor 'American Idol' contestant, you just can't tear yourself away. The addictive properties of a Chekhov are such that once you begin, there's no turning back, and for better or for worse, this is clearly the case with the American Repertory Theatre's production of 'Three Sisters'...

Romulus Linney's new play Klonsky and Schwartz will run off-Broadway from November 28th through December 23rd

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (Curt Dempster, Founder/Artistic Director) will present Klonsky & Schwartz, the off-Broadway premiere of a new play by Romulus Linney, at E.S.T. (549 West 52nd Street).