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Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Starter for Ten; Uncle Vanya review – fingers on buzzers, and samovars

Bamber goes to Bristol in a buoyant musical of David Nicholls’s University Challenge romcom, while Trevor Nunn’s impeccably traditional Chekhov works like a charm

The Guardian - UK

How Vanya’s set design went from stage to NT Live screen

As Vanya, starring Andrew Scott, hits the big screen with NT Live, set designer Rosanna Vize describes retaining the intimacy of London’s Duke of York's show

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‘It’s a torture regime’: the last days of Alexei Navalny

The fiercest political opponent of Vladimir Putin understood that he might never leave prison alive

The Guardian - UK

The Hills of California's Ophelia Lovibond: 'I don't have imposter syndrome – I earned my stripes'

The actor talks returning to the stage and why Sam Mendes is the Jurgen Klopp of theatre

Evening Standard

Sunset Boulevard dominates WhatsOnStage Awards, winning seven categories

Discover the winners of the 24th WhatsOnStage Awards in the UK, where Sunset Boulevard took home seven awards, and Rufus Norris was honored for his contrib...

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Midnight Mole review – puppet’s cheery takeover of Chekhov’s garden

Set in the cherry orchard that Madame Ranevsky is preparing to leave, this story leads its young audience on a tactile adventure underground

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Esenin award for Sarath Mannur

He was awarded PhD from the University of Calicut for his research on Chekhov’s stories.

The Hindu

Andrew Scott: our Best Actor winner – 'maybe I’ve acted a bit too much in the last few years'

The stage and screen star called Vanya 'a little bit mad' but people flew from all over the world to see it

Evening Standard

Sigrid Thornton: ‘A constant reminder of one’s mortality is important. It’s really good’

As she prepares for one of theatre’s great roles in Chekhov’s The Seagull, Thornton talks gender equality, death and the innocence of pet dogs

The Guardian - AU

The Fourth Sister by Laura Scott review – the deadliest slur of all?

The poet pays homage to Chekhov in her second collection, in which boredom is both feared and acknowledged and desperation tussles with wit

The Guardian - UK

The atomic bomb and a near-death experience shadow Richard Flanagan's autobiographical Question 7

The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a River Guide, published in 1994.

The Conversation

Why aren’t audiences returning to theaters?

Attendance in Chicago theaters is down 60% from pre-pandemic levels, according to a Department of Cultural Affairs study.

Chicago Sun-Times

The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

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Evening Standard

Vanya at Duke of York’s Theatre review: an acting masterclass from the mercurial Andrew Scott

This one-man take on Chekhov is no vanity project or gimmick: it’s a distillation of his compassion and humanity that creates something new.

The Guardian - UK

Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian attempt to capture a political turning point

At a dinner party attended by a child ghost and a goading TV pundit warning of apocalypse, a middle-class literati find themselves on the brink of social upheaval

The Guardian - UK

Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: ‘I don’t want my ballet to be staged in Russia ever again’

When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country of his birth

The Guardian - UK

Michael Bakewell obituary

Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

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The Guardian - UK

Khaled Khalifa: ‘All the places of my childhood are destroyed’

The award-winning Syrian novelist on Aleppo, the city of his ‘soul’, his fascination with the late 19th century, and his youthful introduction to Chekhov

Evening Standard

Andrew Scott, Fleabag’s sexy priest, announces one-man show in West End

Sherlock star to appear in Vanya, a Simon Stephens adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya

Los Angeles Times

Review: In Paul Schrader's disappointing 'Master Gardener,' a violent racist turns over a new leaf

"Master Gardener" completes what the writer-director Paul Schrader has described as a kind of trilogy, and what I've come to see as a fascinating game of topical bingo.

The Guardian - UK

Karl Geary: ‘I was writing out of confusion and horror, rage and love’

The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writing

The Guardian - UK

The Cherry Orchard review – Katie Mitchell presents the view from the trees

The director’s latest eco-theatre production gives us fragments of Chekhov’s dialogue and a searing reading of our relationship with nature

The News Lens

2022 Golden Horse Asian Cinema Observer Report: Part 1

Our film critic CJ Sheu was at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to review nominees for the Asian Cinema Observer Recommendation Prize. Here he gives brief reviews of entries from Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, and South Korea.

The Guardian - UK

In Kyiv, I saw Ukrainians on the frontlines of a very real culture war

For many in Ukraine, this is a war of ‘decolonisation’ – and that includes Russia’s celebrated artistic heritage, says Charlotte Higgins

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