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Opening Night:: December 4, 2011
Closing:: December 30, 2011

Theater: 37 Arts Theatre / 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY, 10018

Synopsis:

"Let me remind you, on the twenty-second of August, the estate will be auctioned off. Think about that! Think." But such a thought is impossible to Madame Ranevskaya and her family who are blind to the winds of change that are about to overtake them and their cherished cherry orchard. Join beloved CSC veterans John Turturro and Dianne Wiest as we complete our celebrated Chekhov Cycle with the Russian master's final, tragicomic masterpiece.

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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF The Cherry Orchard at CSC

Breaking the Fourth Wall to Let Chekhov Out
Ben Brantley

December 4, 2011: Is anybody listening, or am I just talking to myself? That question lurks behind pretty much everything everyone says in Andrei Belgrader’s heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard,” which opened Sunday night in a Classic Stage Company production. People keep throwing out words like frustrated children trying to skip stones across water, only to see them sink without a splash, again and again.
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NEW YORK POST REVIEW OF The Cherry Orchard at CSC

A perfectly sweet ‘Cherry’
Elisabeth Vincentelli

December 4, 2011: Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” is one of the funniest dramas ever written. Or maybe it’s one of the saddest comedies. That makes it tough to pull off, and shows often fall into a bland middle.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF The Cherry Orchard at CSC

The Cherry Orchard
Lisa Schwarzbaum

December 4, 2011: Dianne Wiest, who starred in Classic Stage Company's 2008 production of The Seagull, returns to close out the CSC's cycle of four Chekhov productions in The Cherry Orchard, the Russian playwright's great 1904 drama in which the old social order is chopped down while a bewildered, depleted aristocracy dithers and mourns.
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW OF The Cherry Orchard at CSC

Dianne Wiest and John Turturro bloom Off-Broadway in 'Cherry Orchard'
Joe Dziemianowicz

December 4, 2011: At just two hours, the Classic Stage Company’s presentation of “The Cherry Orchard” clocks in as the shortest revival of the tragicomedy in memory.
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NEW JERSEY NEWSROOM REVIEW OF The Cherry Orchard at CSC

‘The Cherry Orchard’ yields an indifferent harvest
Michael Sommers

December 4, 2011: Classic Stage Company, which has done fairly well by Anton Chekhov’s major plays in its four-year Chekhov Initiative (and last winter’s “Three Sisters” with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard was superb), concludes the series with a so-so revival of “The Cherry Orchard” that opened on Sunday.
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