Uncle Vanya

New York Times

“this strikingly intimate “Uncle Vanya” is one of the summer’s hot tickets”

Time Out New York

“a wholly absorbing, intimate setting by director Sam Gold and acted by a superb cast.”

Village Voice

“devastatingly beautiful… Go see it. People are going to be talking about this one for years.”

Variety

“Annie Baker’s colloquial version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” is more than a modern-dress treatment of a classic work. It’s a fresh rethinking of the material from the perspective of a modern mind.”

Bloomberg

“Sam Gold’s living-room production is the most intimate and engaging exploration of Chekhov’s bleak comedy since Andre Gregory’s “Vanya on 42nd Street” more than 20 years ago.”

Philly Inquirer

“a soul-satisfying Uncle Vanya.”

TheaterMania

“Baker’s strikingly colloquial (yet remarkably faithful) translation… eliminates any distance we might feel from these universal characters first created over 100 years ago, but recognizable to — and in — each one of us.”

New York Times

“Ms. Baker and Mr. Gold are returning to “Uncle Vanya,” [Chekhov’s] 1898 masterpiece… as low-frills, intimate and homemade as possible.”

NY Daily News

“Top 10 things on the New York stage…”

Charles Isherwood, New York Times

“a major event of the downtown scene”

The Paris Review

“Baker practices… astonishing verbal magic “