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Uncle Vanya: A New Version by Annie Baker Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

New performance carries the weight of a revelation. 2013 OBIE Award, Playwriting winner. Nov 18, 2012 - But this season his work is receiving a dramatic makeover in a coincidental series of adventurous new adaptations by luminaries of New York's contemporary performance avant-garde. Baker won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in drama for “The Flick,” a a small New England movie theater and its employees. Apr 29, 2013 - Outstanding Play Annie Baker, The Flick Christopher Durang, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Joe Gilford, Finks Richard Greenberg, The Assembled Parties Amy Herzog, Belleville Deanna Jent, Falling Richard Nelson, Sorry Uncle Vanya. Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue Passion Pippin Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella The Golden Land The Mystery of Edwin Drood Working: A Musical. Jan 2, 2013 - I spoke to Kosmas only a couple days before the opening of her latest work, There There, at the Chocolate Factory, where it's also part of this year's COIL Festival (the play re-opens Thurs., Jan.3 after a holiday break, and runs through Jan. Runs January 17th—February 7th, 2015. May 18, 2014 - The event, sponsored by Vertigo Productions, the Dramatists Guild and the Agnes Nixon Festival, featured Annie Baker, and was held at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. Annie Baker creates nothing short of a masterful adaptation that remains faithful to Chekhov's feat of melding a wholly conversational tone with almost preternatural eloquence. She also won Obie Awards for her plays “The Aliens” and “Circle Mirror Transformation” and has written an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's “Uncle Vanya.”. Each artist Annie Baker's critically acclaimed Uncle Vanya at Soho Rep emphasizes the familiar lull of contemporary conversation while presenting period details with equally matter-of-fact familiarity, placing the entire audience inside a carpeted A-frame house built inside a theater. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Jul 4, 2012 - How does Uncle Vanya survive an unconventional Off-Broadway staging, and if it does, how much of Chekhov remains? But a new Off-Broadway production of Uncle Vanya at Annie Baker made the adaptation, which updates the action to our own time and place. New York The star-powered Lincoln Center Festival version, with Cate Blanchett in the role of the object of desire, Yelena, arrives at City Center in a couple of weeks. Sep 8, 2012 - Apparently it was the summer of the Vanya revivals in New York this year, but my schedule only let me have a trip that overlapped with Annie Baker's re-imagining. Consequently, as of this moment I cannot even imagine a more gripping, important, and compelling performance than the new adaptation of Uncle Vanya at the ingenious Soho Rep. Mar 31, 2014 - Hofstra University's Great Writers, Great Readings Series presents Obie Award-winning playwright Annie Baker on Wednesday, April 2, 11:15 a.m. Apr 14, 2014 - Baker's plays include Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens and Body Awareness and an adaptation of Uncle Vanya. Previews January 13th, 14th, 15th, & 16th.