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Thanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of Thomas Ostermeier’s antics. By Houman Barekat Reporting from London ...

Cate Blanchett is incandescent in a Chekhov adaptation from Thomas Ostermeier and Duncan Macmillan that is relentlessly meta What’s the point of art when the world is ending? In this of-the ...

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The great Cate Blanchett returns to the stage in a new version of the Chekhov classic from German auteur Thomas Ostermeier ...

What’s the point of theatre? It’s the question that director Thomas Ostermeier - once the enfant terrible of German theatre, who famously said that directors over 40 should stop working ...

Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also star in this three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious ...

"It is all too easy to be cynical when movie stars turn to theatre," said Houman Barekat in The New York Times, especially as some have not proved very good at it.

“This one’s for Thomas Ostermeier,” he adds, as he unleashes his inner rock god. Yet the really surprising thing about director Ostermeier’s superb production, in a magnificent adaptation by him and ...