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'Seagull: True Story' recasts Chekhov for the Putin era (Off Broadway review)

by Thom Geier

Alexander Molochnikov was a rising theater director in Moscow until his outspoken denunciation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced him to flee to the United States. In Seagull: True Story, now playing at the Public Theater, he reimagines his experiences in a meta-drama that draws on the Anton Chekhov classic The Seagull (the […]

SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 9:00am on March 31, 2026