Oh, and it’s got a performance from Cate Blanchett that may well be the best of the year. ‘Who wants a bit of Chekhov?’ ...

Thanks to Blanchett’s charismatic turn as a fading actress, this new Chekhov adaptation in London hangs together in spite of ...

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

The Barbican’s star-studded The Seagull is an utterly engrossing update of Chekov - 4/5 Cate Blanchett stars in a three-hour ...

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Joined by Emma Corrin and Tom Burke, Blanchett is unmissable in this experimental take on Chekhov’s masterpiece ...

Led by a wildly over the top Cate Blanchett, leaning into all the histrionic impulses of the popular actress, Irina Arkadina, ...

"The gravitational pull of Cate’s star power is magnified in the role of Irina, a famous actress dismissive of an underachieving son" writes Attitude's The post The Seagull at the Barbican review: ...

Director Thomas Ostermeier brings a combination of devil-may-care boldness and truth to Duncan Macmillan's witty new ...

Cate Blanchett returns to the London stage in the critically acclaimed piece, described by WhatsOnStage’s Sarah Crompton as ...

Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also appear in a production at London’s Barbican that asks searching questions about art while ...

But with Duncan Macmillan’s new - largely faithful, often very beautiful - adaptation, it becomes a punch up between The Seagull done traditionally and done as contemporary theatre, sliding ...