Now at BAM, a new version of Chekhov's play by Tom Stoppard. It should be quite a show.
Beginning
in January of 2009, some of the finest talents of New York and London
theater converge at BAM to kick off an extraordinary venture—The Bridge
Project—an unprecedented three-year, transatlantic partnership uniting
BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions. Academy Award winner (American Beauty) Sam Mendes, last at BAM with Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night (2003 Spring Season), returns to direct a formidable group of actors in an ocean-spanning double bill of revered classics: The Cherry Orchard and The Winter's Tale.
in January of 2009, some of the finest talents of New York and London
theater converge at BAM to kick off an extraordinary venture—The Bridge
Project—an unprecedented three-year, transatlantic partnership uniting
BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions. Academy Award winner (American Beauty) Sam Mendes, last at BAM with Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night (2003 Spring Season), returns to direct a formidable group of actors in an ocean-spanning double bill of revered classics: The Cherry Orchard and The Winter's Tale.
Simon
Russell Beale, Sinéad Cusack, and Rebecca Hall from the UK; and Richard
Easton, Josh Hamilton, and Ethan Hawke from the US take the stage in
Tony Award-winner Tom Stoppard's new version of The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov’s daring, droll meditation on bourgeois materialism and what remains in its wake.