J.B. Spins

Hollywood and a high culture do not necessarily go together, but jealousy and disillusionment are embedded in the town’s very fiber.  Con...

The very notion of certain actors playing Chekhov is criminal. Henry Torne is one of them. However, the play is most definitely the thing fo...

Russians have always had issues with the Caucuses. During Anton Chekhov’s day, they were the sleepy backwater provinces of the Russian Empir...

In late Czarist Russia the Ranevsky estate must be sold to save the family from bankruptcy. Class, tradition, and manners all figure promine...

Love is fleeting and death awaits us all. Welcome to Russian drama, performed in this case as part of a cross-cultural meditation on the int...