Andrew Scott to Star in One-Man ‘Vanya’ Off-Broadway
Andrew Scott will bring his one-man show of Uncle Vanya Off-Broadway this spring.
This marks the American premiere of the production, which sees Scott taking on every character in the classic Chekhov drama. The play comes to New York after a West End run in 2023 and a filmed live capture of the show.
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Performances begin March 11, 2025, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with opening night set for March 18. The play is set for a limited run of eight weeks.
Scott co-created the adaptation of Chekhov’s work with Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), designer Rosanna Vize and director Sam Yates. The play, which has eight characters, sees an older professor and his younger wife visit the rural estate run by family members Vanya and Sonya, with Astrov, the local doctor as a frequent visitor. After various flirtations, tensions come to a head when the professor says he wishes to sell the estate that has long-funded his lifestyle.
“I love this masterpiece of a play. I love these heartbreaking, hilarious, sexy, characters. I love my colleagues with whom I made this show. I love New York. So, I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring Vanya to the audiences at the Lortel Theatre,” Scott said.
This is the second Uncle Vanya adaptation to come to New York in the recent past, with the Lincoln Center’s Broadway revival, starring Steve Carrell and William Jackson Harper, ending its run in June.
Scott, known for his starring roles in Fleabag, Ripley and All of Us Strangers, among others, has also appeared in the West End in Hamlet, Present Laughter and Sea Wall. He made his Broadway debut in the 2006 production of David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy.
Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Kater Gordon are producing the run, with Wagner Johnson Productions as executive producers.
This adds on to a string of buzzy shows that have played the Lucille Lortel Theatre, located in Manhattan’s West Village. The theater is currently home to Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold On to Me Darling, starring Adam Driver, after runs of Cole Escola’s Oh Mary! (now doing stellar business in its Broadway transfer) and John Patrick Shanley’s Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, the latter starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott.
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