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The Cherry Orchard
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Revival
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The Cherry Orchard Playbill - March 1928
The Cherry Orchard
Broadway
Revival
Bijou Theatre
209 W. 45th St., New York, NY, New York, NY
SYNOPSIS:
Russian aristocrat Lyubov returns from Paris to her childhood estate, which is due to be sold. Anton Chekhov's 1903 play highlights the growing irrelevancy of the Russian upper classes as the former peasant class begins to gain power.
playwright:
Anton Chekhov
People (15)
Lowden Adams
A Vagrant
(Original)
Glen Byam Shaw
Trofimov, Petr Sergeyevich
(Original)
Charles Courtneidge
Yasha
(Original)
Mary Newnham Davis
Dunyasha
(Original)
James Bernard Fagan
Gayev, Leonid Andreyevich
(Original)
Gemma Fagan
Anya
(Original)
Mary Grey
Ranevskaya, Lyubov Andreevna
(Original)
Ethel Griffies
Sharlotta Ivanovna
(Original)
Gyles Isham
Simeonov-Pishchik, Boris Borisovich
(Original)
Edwin Maxwell
Lopakhin, Ermolai Alekseevich
(Original)
Esther Mitchell
Barbara
(Original)
Edward Rigby
Firs
(Original)
A. Henderson Storie
Epikhodov, Semen Panteleevich
(Original)
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Lowden Adams
A Vagrant
(Original)
Glen Byam Shaw
Trofimov, Petr Sergeyevich
(Original)
Charles Courtneidge
Yasha
(Original)
Mary Newnham Davis
Dunyasha
(Original)
James Bernard Fagan
Gayev, Leonid Andreyevich
(Original)
Gemma Fagan
Anya
(Original)
Mary Grey
Ranevskaya, Lyubov Andreevna
(Original)
Ethel Griffies
Sharlotta Ivanovna
(Original)
Gyles Isham
Simeonov-Pishchik, Boris Borisovich
(Original)
Edwin Maxwell
Lopakhin, Ermolai Alekseevich
(Original)
Esther Mitchell
Barbara
(Original)
Edward Rigby
Firs
(Original)
A. Henderson Storie
Epikhodov, Semen Panteleevich
(Original)
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Anton Chekhov
Writer
George Calderon
Translation
James Bernard Fagan
Director
Producer
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Pro Info
Opening Date
Mar
5
1928
Closing Date
Mar
31
1928
Performances
5
as of Jan 31, 2026
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