Maxim Gorky’s bittersweet slice of Tsarist Russian life, doesn’t come round often. With more than 20 characters and a ...

Chekhovek,” a theatrical collage of Anton Chekhov’s short stories directed by Melania Levitsky, runs March 20–22 at Park ...

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 ...

Russia’s “last great writer,” is a mysterious figure in Korean theater. His plays depict stories from late 19th-century imperial Russia, a time of social, political, philosophical, and economic ...

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 ...

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

Ever found Russian literature a little hard going? Well, luckily a work by Russia's greatest playwright has been propelled into the present by giving it a digital makeover. StoryMax What if each ...

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 ...