Anton Chekhov News

WHO: CenterStage WHAT: Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters WHEN: Through October 29, performance schedule varies. HOW MUCH: $10 - $60

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Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard opens the Trinity Rep's 43rd season. The brand new translation is by Artistic Director Curt Columbus, who also directs.

This is not your grandmother's Cherry Orchard.

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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.

The Intiman Theatre in Seattle--last year's Tony Award-winner for Regional Theatre--has announced its 2006-2007 line-up, which will include the world premiere of a new Craig Lucas play, as well as the national tour of Lucas and Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza

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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.

Details for the closing months of London's Royal Court Theatre's 50th anniversary celebration have been finalized, with works by Caryl Churchill and Samuel Beckett, and performances by Harold Pinter, Kristin Scott Thomas and Alicia Witt among the highlights

Oscar-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas will return to the London stage in the Royal Court Theatre's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull

Jessica Lange will take on the role of Madame Ranevskaya in a new London production of Anton Chekhov's wistful drama The Cherry Orchard, which will then cross the pond to Broadway; John Doyle is set to direct

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

Lisa Kron's Well, which closed on Broadway last month, has been added to the Huntington Theatre's 2006-2007 season line-up, with the play to be presented at the Boston theatre company from March 9th through April 8th, 2007

Two of the most distinguished men working in theatre--director Trevor Nunn and actor Ian McKellen--will collaborate on a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Chekhov's The Seagull, which will play in repertory with King Lear at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in September and set off on a world tour in 2007

Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei, Elizabeth Marvel and Anne Parisse will be the Three Sisters who long for Moscow in a star-studded staged reading of Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which will be presented at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium on May 22nd at 6 PM

Artist Director Irene Lewis and Dramaturg Gavin Witt hold open house to discuss 2006-2007 Season.