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‘Uncle Vanya’ Review: Steve Carell Fits Seamlessly Into a Stellar Ensemble in a Gorgeous Broadway Revival

Summary by Variety

Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, the year the play was written. There’s a baseball cap and a backpack with dayglow tape; pills are in plastic bottles with childproof caps; when someone runs out of ink […]

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The Guardian

Uncle Vanya review – Steve Carell leads excellent cast in Chekhov reimagining

Vivian Beaumont Theater, New YorkThe star makes a convincing Broadway debut in a tragicomic winner staged with thought and deft flashes of modernityAs with Appropriate, another outstanding, claustrophobic family drama directed by Lila Neugebauer on Broadway this season, the new Broadway revival of Uncle Vanya, now playing at Lincoln Center, plays to the sound of oppressive heat. The trill of crickets, the buzz of cicadas – from the first minute,…

9 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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New York Post

‘Uncle Vanya’ review: Steve Carell’s Broadway play is funny, not feeling

When Steve Carell emerges from behind a bench onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, the crowd giggles automatically at the “Office” star. Now playing the hapless title role in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” the revival of which opened Wednesday night on Broadway, the actor’s presence gets laughs before he does much of anything.

9 days ago·New York, United States

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