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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
It’s a pleasure to be in the company of the entire cast of Ian Rickson’s revelatory production of The Seagull . Let me throw my hat in the air at the outset and hail it as the finest production of Chekhov I’ve seen in a generation. The production at the Walter Kerr on Broadway began at the Royal Court Theatre, and Mr. Hickson’s use of British and American actors works uncommonly well....
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Photo: Getty Images In Chekhov's The Seagull , which opened last week at the Walter Kerr, Treplyov gives Nina a shot bird. We asked the cast and their assorted guests what kind of weirdo gifts they've received in the past and were sufficiently creeped out by the answers. Kristen Scott Thomas got a toenail from a boy who supposedly liked her. Peter Sarsgaard gave himself a robot that...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... as its logo.In the thrilling restaging of Ian Rickson’s 2007 Royal Court production (at the Walter Kerr), Chekhov’s eponymous bird is bagged on a whim by the morose twenty-five-year-old would-be playwright Konstantin Treplev (Mackenzie Crook) and laid at the feet of his young girlfriend, Nina (Carey Mulligan), a would-be actress, whose sparkling eyes are caught by the famous writer...
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NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
... by Christopher Hampton and is directed by Ian Rickson. It plays through December 21 at the Walter Kerr Theatre at 219 W. 48th St., . Regular tickets are priced from $41 to $110, but aisle seats are $135 and must be purchased in pairs.Premium seats are $252.A selection of the reviews: - “The careful cultivation of such transparency, to the point that we feel instinctively tuned into...
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Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... in 2006. The Seagull , also starring Kristin Scott Thomas , officially opens October 1st at the Walter Kerr Theater. Source: Canadian Press
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Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
The 37-year-old—who last year relocated to Park Slope with his actor wife and their baby girl, Ramona—is about to unleash that scene-stealing charisma in a production of The Seagull at the Walter Kerr Theatre, opening September 25. A few weeks before his Broadway debut, Sarsgaard spoke to us over the phone from his Brooklyn townhouse. Time Out New York: It sounds like you’re multitasking....
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
... The New Yorker calls it, “The finest British production of Chekhov in recent memory”. Buy tickets Walter Kerr Theatre 219 West 48th Street New York 10036
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Mark P Knowles :: Don't Panic ! (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
... is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” -Paul Keating “He had delusions of adequacy.” -Walter Kerr “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it'” -Mark Twain “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” -Mae West “Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!” -Lady Astor to Winston Churchill at a dinner party “Madam,...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... reviews abroad for their portrayals of a troubled young man and his shrink.The Seagull Oct. 1Walter Kerr TheatreAnother British import, this Royal Court Theatre staging of the Chekhov classic earned Kristin Scott Thomas an Olivier Award (the English Tony). Fellow film star Peter Sarsgaard joins her in New York.To Be or Not to Be Oct. 2Samuel J. Friedman TheatreThe Manhattan Theater...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
... seems right at home in Ian Rickson’s production of Chekhov’s Seagull (to open on October 1 at the Walter Kerr). Scott Thomas, known for looking enigmatic and patrician in films like The English Patient, has already proved her classic stage mettle in London with arresting turns in Chekhov (The Three Sisters as well as The Seagull) and Pirandello (As You Desire Me). I am not nervous...
