At first blush, a one-person take on Uncle Vanya might sound like a terrible idea—a belabored theatrical stunt destined to wear thin pretty quickly. But in the hands of Andrew Scott, one of the ...
Vanya, Andrew Scott’s audacious, unforgettable one-person rendition of Chekhov’s play, has arrived at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, following a lauded West End run. Under the direction of Sam ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Pick Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force. Andrew Scott filters a range of ...
“I just want you to look at me,” says a man named Ivan to a woman named Helena at the end of the first act of Vanya, Simon Stephens’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s 1897 tale of thwarted ...
The “Ripley” and “All Of Us Strangers” star brings his one-man “Vanya” to New York. It’s technically impressive, but doesn’t reveal anything new in adapting Chekhov’s classic text.
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Actor Andrew Scott joins Morning Joe to discuss the critically acclaimed one-man show 'Vanya', based on Anton Chekhov’s 1897 play, 'Uncle Vanya'. Scott plays eight different characters in the ...
Perhaps it’s too much to ask that a production tell a cogent story of a classic play when there’s only one actor playing nine characters and the usual running time has been cut almost in half.
Last season, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had a Broadway hit at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre with his Tony Award-winning “Appropriate,” a knock-down, drag-out comedy in which a ...