by Anton Chekhov
August 6 to 24, 2025
Translated and Adapted by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky
Directed by Matt Schwader
Featuring Scott Cordes and Sarilee Kahn, and KCAT Company Members Chioma Anyanwu, Hillary Clemens, Nedra Dixon, Jerry Mañan, and Victor Raider-Wexler.
From one of the world’s most celebrated Russian translators comes an exhilarating new version of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. “The most affecting version that I have ever seen… The first Vanya that brought me to tears and made me laugh in places I never had before.” (The New York Times). Chekhov mixes the tragic and the absurd in this study of Russian middle-class life. Vanya and his niece care for the estate of Vanya’s brother-in-law, but when that brother-in-law returns with a new wife, affairs are made known, flirtation brings disaster, and the lives of the family come undone.