Andrew Scott will bring his one-man show of Uncle Vanya Off-Broadway this spring.
This marks the American premiere of the play, which sees Scott taking on every character in the classic Chekhov play. The show comes to New York after a West End run in 2023 and a filmed live capture of the show.
Performances begin March 11, 2025, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with opening night 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 and Ripley, among others, has also appeared in the West End in Hamlet and Sea Wall. He appeared on Broadway in the 2006 production of The Vertical Hour.
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 Hold 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.
