Anton Chekhov News

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Streep plays Lillian Hall, an actress who is synonymous with Broadway. Throughout her long, illustrious career, she has never missed a performance—not for her daughter, not for illness, not for any reason. Yet in the rehearsals leading to her next Broadway production, her confidence is challenged.

Today's Theater Stories features the Gershwin Theatre! Learn about the theatre's longest running show, Wicked; the extravagant production of Starlight Express; the Theater Hall of fame featuring theater's biggest names, and more!

The Cherry Orchard: A New Media Workshop is an experiment in development by Arlekin Players Theatre’s founder and director Igor Golyak, who has been a leading innovator of virtual theater since the start of the pandemic. 

Theatre 40 is doing a virtual presentation of two short comedies at 7:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday, February 24 under the umbrella title of A Risky Evening. The plays are: On the Harmfulness of Tobacco. Written by Anton Chekhov and Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second written by Pete Barry.

The Bossier Parish Community College Theatre Program and the Cavalier Players encourages local actors to audition for their spring 2021 show, The Good Doctor. Auditions are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on February 3 in the Stephen W. Slaughter Theatre (Building C) on the BPCC campus, 6220 East Texas Street, Bossier City.

The Drama League has announced today THE ESSENTIALS, an expanded series of workshops and seminars developed to explore best practices and changing realities for stage directors and theatermakers, offering vital tools for artists to succeed.

Theatre Wesleyan will present a production of the Anton Chekhov classic Uncle Vanya at the Thad Smotherman Theatre at Texas Wesleyan University (1205 Binkley Street, 76105) from February 19-21, 2021.  This production of the play will use a condensed one-act adaptation translated by Eugene K. Bristow.

Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA has announced additional seats have been released for its production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 1/14/2021 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Travel virtually from Russia at the turn of the 20th century, to Manila, South Carolina, and a fantastical New York City of the future with Two River Theater's “Two River Players” in a new series of community readings.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 1/7/2021 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

New York Theatre Workshop announced today an extension for , conceived and created by Theater Mitu & directed by Rubén Polendo. Part of the 2020/21 Artistic Instigators Season, was originally set to stream November 16-24, 2020 and will now be available for 6 additional performances through December 13, 2020.

The New Group in association with John Ridley's Nō Studios are joining forces through The New Group Off Stage division, and have announced an upcoming slate of projects. The New Group Off Stage will feature theatrical expressions in different media.

Today (November 19) in live streaming: Luba Mason visits Backstage Live, Andrew Barth Feldman guests on Ten Minute Tidbits, and so much more!

Within the Fordham Theatre community, there’s this idea that no two Mainstage productions are the same, in conception and experience, and that was before the world entered a global pandemic that transforms each day.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced today it will postpone the 20/21 planned production of Donnetta Lavinia Grays's Last Night and the Night Before to a future season due to extended public health concerns related to COVID-19.

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The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will honor Howard and Elyse Butnick and their family at the annual Generation to Generation event on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. The virtual event also will include an interview The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Michael Zegen, the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor.

Belvoir has announced the productions making up the first part of their 2021 season. In recognition of the unpredictable times at hand, the first announcement reveals the shows that will take to the stage from February to September 2021, with the second announcement to be shared in early 2021.