"Breathtaking… Heidi Schreck’s gorgeous, colloquial translation… is heartbreaking and profound."

Variety

"Sleek, lucid… Heidi Schreck’s smooth, faithful yet colloquial new version… offers a hundred things to enjoy… a lovely evening in the theater."

The New York Times

"Timeless… Schreck, author of What the Constitution Means to Me, spent time as a teacher and journalist in St Petersburg, and has a clear grasp on the spirit of Chekhov’s material. This translation sounds as natural to the present day as about anything else on Broadway… Schreck’s translation… add[s] a distinctly contemporary current of irony to everyone’s growing crises of purpose."

The Guardian

"Breathtaking… shimmers with beauty, mirth, and, at least for the audience, hope. Despite the terrible state of things, art is still able to lift us up, take us out of our misery, and move us… with Heidi Schreck’s gorgeous, colloquial translation… the play is as entertaining as it is heartbreaking and profound."

Variety

"An especially accessible adaptation… There’s a painfully obvious prescience to the Anton Chekhov-penned play, even 125 years after it was first staged. In fact, the tragicomedy grappling with wasted lives and the inevitable decline of the natural world is pushed to further relatability thanks to a lean and contemporary translation from Heidi Schreck."

Entertainment Weekly