In “Our Life in Art,” the Russian theater director Konstantin Stanislavski (played by Maurice Durozier) and members of his acting troupe bicker, eat dinner and talk politics all around a long ...

Mercurial, temperamental Stanislavski (Robert MacKenzie) makes a deliberately late and dramatic entrance. He takes over the stage, satirizing Chekhov's insistence that the plays he writes are ...

Anton Chekhov, center, reads The Seagull to the Moscow Art Theatre; Constantin Stanislavski stands behind his left shoulder.

When Dennis Zacek enters the stage as Anton Chekhov, a lovely calm of pleasure settles on the action of ”Chekhov in Yalta.” Measured in gait, gracious and soft-spoken in manner, sly and… ...

What was at first known as the Stanislavski System was never without its doubters. Once Stanislavski asked Michael Chekhov (Anton’s nephew) to re-create an emotional state by using affective memory.

Richard Nelson’s “Our Life in Art” has been translated into Russian and French. Both times required, above all, preserving a specific sensibility.

Interview with Inga Romantsova, a professional actress and academic who specialises in teaching acting using the Stanislavski method, about how Australian students perceive the realism of Anton ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with actor Hugh Bonneville about his starring role in the play Uncle Vanya, which is showing at D.C.'s Harman Hall.

When Anton Chekhov’s first play, “The Seagull,” premiered in St. Petersburg in 1896, opening night was a disaster. If the stories are true, Chekhov was embarrassed enough to duck out ...

History of Method Acting Method acting was built on Stanislavski's system (or "the System"), which was developed by Russian theater practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski (i.e. Stanislavski's system ...