The play, on stage at the BU Theatre through Sunday, is a coproduction with the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) and the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP), in partnership with the Boston University New Play Initiative and the School of Theatre. Now comes Uncle Jack, a modern retelling of Chekhov’s classic tragicomedy Uncle Vanya, by Michael Hammond, a College of Fine Arts assistant professor of theater. Boston theater audiences were treated to a comic mashup of the great Russian playwright’s works last month with the Huntington Theatre Company’s critically lauded production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Call this the year of Anton Chekhov, reimagined.
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