Russian
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Anton Chekhov, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from translations by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyCollection Description
LITTLE COMEDIES, an evening of five short plays by Anton Chekhov, span the author's career; this version of ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO was one of the last pieces he wrote... [read more]
Wendy Wasserstein, based on the short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Varinka is a free spirit in love with the older Byelinkov, the most proper man in town. But his inhibitions and worries about how he and Varinka are perceived when she boldly rides a bicycle about town threatens to unravel their impending marriage... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Richard Nelson, Alexander GelmanDescription
MISHA'S PARTY is set one August night in Moscow: a man attempts to throw himself a sixtieth birthday party, a grandmother attempts a reconciliation with her granddaughter, and one half of the government attempts to overthrow the other half... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (7 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 125 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
One of the world's great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
Ivan Turgenev's beautiful and subtle comedy of love in a new translation by the renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award)... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 170 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Constance Congdon, adapted from VASSA ZHELEZNOVA by Maxim Gorky, translated by Tanya ChebotarevDescription
An adaptation of Gorky's classic black comedy, VASSA ZHELEZNOVA, A MOTHER concerns a family's stern, penny-pinching matriarch who will do anything for her family.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Christina MasciottiDescription
Set in present-day Queens, NO GOOD THINGS DWELL IN THE FLESH features an immigrant master tailor struggling to convince her assistant to take over her business as she loosens her grip on the material world... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, bit parts, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesAnton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesAnton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesSpalding Gray, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Famously astute observer of everyday life, Spalding Gray receives a Chekhov short story in the mail, leading him into a monologue that confronts the fears that beset us... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
"It's a comedy with three female and six male roles, four acts, a landscape (view of a lake), lots of talk of literature, little action and 180 lbs of love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Emily Mann, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULLDescription
Emily Mann brings Chekhov's masterpiece into the 21st century with bright contemporary language and a modern Hamptons' setting... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Evgeny Shvarts, translated by Laurence SenelickDescription
In an imaginary, fantastical land a scholar arrives seeking to find a way to make as many people as he can happy.
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (5 female, 11 male, doubling possible, many bit parts)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
A fantastical/political/historical exploration of life in the Soviet Union in the earliest dawn of Perestroika... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes