Steve Carell leads a star studded cast in Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA.
Sonia and her uncle Vanya have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father and his charismatic wife move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt, and the family is forced to reckon with the ghosts of their unlived lives.
Director Lila Neugebauer (The Waverly Gallery, The Wolves) and playwright Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me) collaborate on the premiere of this Lincoln Center Theater production of Uncle Vanya, which pairs Anton Chekhov‘s enduring masterpiece with one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights in a strikingly immediate new translation.
It’s got major names (Steve Carell is carrying the autumn roses and the gun), a major stage at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont, and a palpably earnest desire to excavate the story’s humanity. And it is, unhappily, an example of how all these things can fail to cohere into something powerful. Like its luckless hero, it shoots and misses.
In Uncle Vanya’s original setting, the characters are constrained by very real limits, financial and social; here, they seem trapped by authorial mandate—by a shadow fidelity to the mores of a different time and place. Perhaps that explains why this production, despite the talent involved, left me unmoved, and with a nagging question that Vanya might relate to: So much work has gone into this, but what’s it all for?
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Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play | Marin Ireland |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design of a Play | Stacey Derosier |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Uncle Vanya |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Steve Carell |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Willam Jackson Harper |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Play | Lila Neugebauer |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Uncle Vanya |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | William Jackson Harper |
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