Nicholas Shrimpton on Asian art in London.

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'Are you ready for a bit of Chekhov,' asks Zachary Hart's guitar-toting factory worker, Medvedenko before launching into a Billy Bragg number. It's a meta start to a talent-packed updating of a ...

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Cate Blanchett is back on the London stage for the first time in six years, playing the feted, self-absorbed, glamorous actress Arkadina in Chekhov’s first theatrical masterpiece The Seagull (1896).

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 ...

Relations with Russia may be icier than ever, but mutual antipathy has never dented our love for Chekhov. To all intents and purposes the man wrote four plays, and they’re never far from our ...

After a string of theatrical duds, misfires and howlers involving Hollywood heavyweights Sigourney Weaver, Rami Malek and Brie Larson, Cate Blanchett was the latest star of the big screen to have ...

So when Cate Blanchett rolled into town for a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” at the Barbican Theater, a little trepidation could be forgiven. But Blanchett is different.

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-mome ...

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