Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of the Russian writer Anton Chekov circa 1890-1904. (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) The hectic ...

New American Ensemble has extended its world premiere staging of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov. Glenn Fitzgerald, seen on Broadway ...

Gerry’s chart-topping band looked to have put Merseyside music on the map until it was overshadowed by a giant flap ping ...

The course of true art never did run smooth.Those aren’t his words, or even Shakespeare’s, but Anton Chekhov would have ...

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

When Anton Chekhov died in Badenweiler in July 1904 of tuberculosis of the lungs, I was a young man who had embarked upon literature with some short stories and a novel which owed a great deal to the ...

In Chekhov’s early plays you can chart the birth of 20th-century theatre. As a new season opens at the National Theatre, director Jonathan Kent explores the evolution of a genius Portmanteau seasons ...

I keep a photograph of Anton Chekhov on my mantelpiece. It's such an informal shot that it looks surprisingly modern. Chekhov appears to be sitting at a cluttered desk or a table, resting his head on ...

Russian writers know the beauty and pain of true love. Remembered as one of the most skillful writers in Russian literature (and one of the most treasured among short story authors of any nationality) ...

The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov’s plays depict ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees. By Joshua Hammer Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the 1900 play by ...