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Amanda Redman and Dennis Waterman had known each other for 40 years and worked on huge BBC hit drama New Tricks together for a decade

The Duffer Brothers take to the stage with a play set in the world of 'Stranger Things.' Here are a few ideas for them.

Organisers of the Avignon international festival that opens Thursday are hoping to rekindle the public's taste for theatre. With a range of live performances and events, the festival will try to reboot a sector that has suffered badly because of the Covid pandemic.

The writer said he had ‘left his soul behind in Luka’, and wrote of the place in his plays and stories. Sanaa Abdulaziz reports on Chekhov’s beloved home in Ukraine

A spare, nuanced, emotionally crystalline staging of the Chekhov classic inaugurates the theater’s new space on Halsted.

“Russia is not Putin.” As a lecturer in Russian history, and an ex-Soviet Russian American, I have said these words many times. But now the treasures of Russia’s culture — its poetry, novels, movies, theater, symphonies — must be weighed against the current regime’s premeditated murder of the innocent. In…

LOS ANGELES — Japanese auteur Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted a roughly 40-page Haruki Murakami short story into a fully realized, seamless three-hour film, "Drive My Car." But it was much more involved than that: He actually took material from three Murakami stories, and within that adaptation, he included significant passages of…

Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov famously advised young playwrights that “if in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired.”