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...Anton Chekhov directed by Ron Daniels at the American Repertory Theatre through February...
...production of The Cherry Orchard, Yermolai Lopakhin rouses himself in the middle of the night to greet a train. Although the businessperson wakes up, he seems to wake into a dream in which everything is slightly off-balance. Director Ron Daniels' airy, sweetly comic production emphasizes the imblances of Chekhov's picture of a changing world...
...Chekhov would have appreciated this production of his classic, which emphasizes the script's comic elements. He always insisted the play was a comedy, despite the preponderance of productions that yearned for political implications and darker meanings. The A.R.T.'s Cheery Orchard depicts the passage of an age in the sunlight of a dreamlike afternoon...
Alan P. Symonds '69 may be more important to theater fans on this campus than Shakespeare, Chekhov or Stephen Sondheim. Certainly his name appears on more programs year round than do all of these luminaries combined. Symonds isn't a playwright, a director or even a wealthy patron of the arts. But without him, few of the fifty-odd plays and musicals that are performed here each year would ever see an opening night...
...WOMAN KILLS HERSELF. HER DAUGHter is attacked, twice, on the same lonely ridge. And, in THE YEARS, a middle-class family soldiers on. For her play, which covers 16 years of muffled torments, Cindy Lou Johnson borrows from Chekhov (Three Sisters), Philip Barry (Holiday) and Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart). But she has learned little from any of them about building comedy or character. Though this off-Broadway production, handsomely designed by Loren Sherman, boasts two movie-marquee names -- bossy Marcia Gay Harden, frazzled Julie Hagerty -- it is Frank Whaley (the kid at the diner in Hoffa) who carries...