Uncle Vanya

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

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

*KCAT Company Member

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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.

Runtime for Uncle Vanya is 1 hour and 50 minutes with no intermission.

Matt Schwader* – Director
Ari Hernandez – Assistant Director & Assistant Stage Manager
John Rohr – Scenic Designer & Technical Director
Matt Snellgrove – Costume Designer
Zoe Spangler – Lighting Designer
Mary Robinson – Sound Designer
Taylor Jene Sullivan – Properties Designer

Tinna Rivera – Production Stage Manager
Mackenzie Goodwin Tran – Production Assistant/Wardrobe Supervisor
Logan Black – Production Manager

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

*KCAT Company Member