Director Gary Graves encourages the cast to express anguish with the bluntness of ball-peen hammer in this adaptation of a Chekhov novella, at Central Works through Nov. 11.
Two shadowy, seductive short stories by Russian author Anton Chekhov are the heartbeat of Man in a Case, the arresting production running at Berkeley…
Anton Chekhov is not an easy sell for the YouTube generation. The Russian playwright and author specialized in drawn-out tragedy that mirrored real life…
I'm not sure why anyone assumes that we need modern rewrites of powerful plays. A few months back, I saw Luis Alfaro's much-praised adaptation…
Trifles is a great old play about why men are stupid. Or else it applies generally to the way powerful people overlook the obvious…
Our critics weigh in on local theater
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