To be honest, the appeal of smoking a cigar has always eluded me. But the appeal of “Anna in the Tropics,” Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer prize-winning play certainly has not “Anna in the Tropics” is opening ...

This year’s festival season at Chichester kicked off with a Russian classic in the form of Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 satire, The Government Inspector. For the second play of the season in the main house, ...

Natalie Dormer stars in this cumbersome, intermittently arresting adaptation of the Tolstoy classic From the hijinks of a corrupt rural community to the frosty homes of St Petersburg and Moscow’s ...

Eight years after taking to the stage as Reg in The Norman Conquests on the Chichester Festival Theatre stage, Jonnie Broadbent is back this summer as Stiva in Anna Karenina (June 7-28). Did you know ...

Among Western literature’s tragic heroines Anna Karenina surely ranks among the most famous. And, like so many literary heroines, the title character of Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 door-stopper novel has been ...

A new era is born.

A stunning set of images from the 2012 film Anna Karenina has resurfaced on X (formerly Twitter), reigniting admiration for Keira Knightley’s performance and the film’s breathtaking cinematography.

Some things you can’t take back, or unsay. Many years ago I told the wife of a friend that I really wanted to read Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. No problem there, but I pronounced the title Anna (so ...

This entertaining co-production of “Anna Karenina”, which transfers from Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre to Bristol Old Vic next month, “began as a dare”, said Fergus Morgan in The Stage. The British ...

Lindsey Campbell (left) as a commanding Anna and Ray Sesay as moral compass Kostya in Lesley Hart's clear-headed reversioningRobbie McFadzean We’ll come back to the profanities. In terms of adaptation ...