"It is all too easy to be cynical when movie stars turn to theatre," said Houman Barekat in The New York Times, especially as ...
Thanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of ...
Director Thomas Ostermeier brings a combination of devil-may-care boldness and truth to Duncan Macmillan's witty new ...
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The Barbican’s star-studded The Seagull is an utterly engrossing update of Chekov - 4/5 Cate Blanchett stars in a three-hour ...
Read our review of *The Seagull*, starring Cate Blanchett, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Emma Corrin and Tom Burke, now in performances ...
The great Cate Blanchett returns to the stage in a new version of the Chekhov classic from German auteur Thomas Ostermeier ...
"The gravitational pull of Cate’s star power is magnified in the role of Irina, a famous actress dismissive of an ...
Blanchett delivers an highly skillful performance in director Thomas Ostermeier’s meta production of the Chekhov class ...
They’ve been to see Cate Blanchett in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican Centre. The classic drama still features characters from Russian nobility – but it’s given a modern-day treatment ...
By Demetrios Matheou While Anton Chekhov always thought of The Seagull as a comedy, that fact has frequently been forgotten through productions that fall into the soporific trap set by angsty ...