Uncle Vanya

by Anton Checkov
Adapted and translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky
Dates: August 6 – 24, 2025
Location: City Stage in Union Station
Directed by KCAT Company Member Matt Schwader

Featuring Scott Cordes and Sarilee Kahn, and KCAT Company Members Chioma Anyanwu, Hillary Clemens, Nedra Dixon, Jerry Mañan, and Victor Raider-Wexler.

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Pairing one of the greatest plays ever written, with 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 Sonya 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.

Matt Schwader – Director
Logan Black – Production Manager

Remaining Designers and Crew to be announced.

Cast:
Hillary Clemens – Sonya
Scott Cordes – Vanya
Victor Raider-Wexler – Serebryakov
Chioma Anyanwu – Elena
Nedra Dixon – Marya
Sarilee Kahn – Marina
Jerry Mañan – Astrov