Andrew Scott to Star in One-Man ‘Vanya’ Off-Broadway

Andrew Scott will deliver his one-man present of Uncle Vanya Off-Broadway this spring. 

This marks the American premiere of the play, which sees Scott taking up each character within the traditional Chekhov play. The present involves New York after a West Finish run in 2023 and a filmed stay seize of the present. 

Performances start March 11, 2025, on the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with opening evening March 18. The play is about for a restricted run of eight weeks. 

Scott co-created the difference of Chekhov’s work with Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Canine within the Evening-Time), designer Rosanna Vize and director Sam Yates. The play, which has eight characters, sees an older professor and his youthful spouse go to the agricultural property run by relations Vanya and Sonya, with Astrov, the native physician as a frequent customer. After varied flirtations, tensions come to a head when the professor says he needs to promote the property that has long-funded his life-style. 

“I really like this masterpiece of a play. I really like these heartbreaking, hilarious, attractive, characters. I really like my colleagues with whom I made this present. I really like New York. So, I couldn’t be extra thrilled to deliver Vanya to the audiences on the Lortel Theatre,” Scott mentioned. 

That is the second Uncle Vanya adaptation to return to New York within the latest previous, with the Lincoln Middle’s Broadway revival, starring Steve Carrell and William Jackson Harper, ending its run in June. 

Scott, recognized for his starring roles in Fleabag and Ripley, amongst others, has additionally  appeared within the West Finish in Hamlet and Sea Wall. He appeared on Broadway within the 2006 manufacturing of The Vertical Hour. 

Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Kater Gordon are producing the run, with Wagner Johnson Productions as government producers. 

This provides on to a string of buzzy reveals which have performed the Lucille Lortel Theatre, positioned in Manhattan’s West Village. The theater is at present dwelling to Maintain On To Me Darling, starring Adam Driver, after runs of Oh Mary! and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott.