The Latest Breaking News from Chekhov

The writer has made the leap into film with Janet Planet, about a mother and daughter drifting apart on a hippy commune. She talks about how it echoes her own upbringing – and why her younger self would be horrified

Director Pierre Mouchet’s film is a showcase of economy, style and woodwork skills as three friends stay over at a lumberjack’s house and experience his ingenious ways to inflict pain

A welcome glimpse of what is playing beyond Britain, this year’s programme includes a deeply moving drama of migrant jeopardy and an intriguing Three Sisters

Griffin Dunne's new memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club, A Family Memoir,” out Tuesday from Penguin Press, is filled with raucous tales of growing up in Hollywood — from sneaking into his parents’ dinner parties featuring Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, to Sean Connery saving him from drowning in a pool

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov

Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women

Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade

The aged servant steals the show in a fast-paced 21st-century Chekhov, Max Webster’s dystopian sci-fi dazzles the eye, and a campaigning drama is tender and furious

Hits the play’s poles of tragedy and comedy with devastating accuracy

He had barely started his career when abuse left him mentally ill. But he went on to phenomenal success – and has just been made president of the UK’s leading drama school