Viacheslav Dolgachev directs the Paul Schmidt translation of the drama about a family in the arts (and the people in their orbit). The popular run was extended.
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The physical world of the classic is created by scenic designer and Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto (Glengarry Glen Ross, Cafe Crown).
Two-time Oscar winner Wiest ("Bullets Over Broadway," "Hannah and Her Sisters") plays actress Irina Arkadina, and Tony winner Cumming (Cabaret) is writer Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin in the Russian masterpiece about creative people and their egos, appetites — and their selfishness.
The cast also includes Kelli Garner (as young actress Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya), Ryan O'Nan (as Arkadina's playwright son, Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev), Annette O'Toole (as Paulina Andryevna), David Rasche (as Yevgeny Sergeyevich Dorn), John Christopher Jones (as Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin), Bill Christ (as Ilya Shamrayev), Ryan Homchick (as Yakov), Greg Keller (as Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko) and Marjan Neshat (as Masha).
photo by Joan Marcus |
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Garner appeared Off-Broadway in Dog Sees God at the Century Center. Her film roles include "Lars and the Real Girl," "The Aviator" and "Love, Liza," among others.
O'Toole has appeared in such films as "Cat People," "One On One," "48 Hours" opposite Nick Nolte and "Superman III," and was Martha Kent on the TV series "Smallville." For HBO, she appeared in "Vanities."
Rasche is a New York stage veteran whose credits include Broadway's Speed the Plow, Lunch Hour, Loose Ends, Shadow Box and Getting and Spending and Off-Broadway's Edmond at the Atlantic, Moonlight and Magnolias and Regrets Only at Manhattan Theatre Club, and The Country Girl at the Roundabout, among many others.
Jones' New York theatre credits include Otherwise Engaged, Hurlyburly, Democracy, The Iceman Cometh, Engaged and more.
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