"[A] fluid adaptation."--The New Yorker

"Remains utterly faithful to the original while giving it the lightest dusting of [Stoppard's] own brisk wit . . . A play that might have been written a hundred days instead of a hundred years ago."--New York Times

"Stoppard's recent translation of The Seagull has given us the achingly sad and escapably tragic world that the great Russian playwright envisioned. The work overtakes us . . . Emotions flow like tears."--New York Daily News

"Audacious Shakespeare-infused conversational flair."--Los Angeles Times

"Consistently funny, a sharply observed human comedy of crisscrossing desires . . . [Tom Stoppard] never sacrifices pungent immediacy to the fetish of literal accuracy."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Stoppard . . . remains faithful to the humor that Chekhov intended to convey amid all the pathos."-- Chicago Tribune

"Stoppard has produced a vigorously speakable text...The translator's instinct for comedy helps heighten the humour in Chekhov's situations."--The Independent (UK)

"Anyone blanching at the thought of ingenious Stoppardian word games in Chekhov's bucolic setting . . . may be surprised . . . A fine, faithful translation . . . Stripped to its bare essentials, The Seagull . . . is a remarkably modern play that treads in uncharted psychological minefields . . . An enormous amount to chew on. It's a brilliant portrait, painted with studied detachment."--CurtainUp

"If this show ever went to an open run in the park, the aforementioned planetarium would probably have to file for bankruptcy . . . one of the iconic Chekhov's undisputed classics . . . The Seagull debuted at the Moscow Art Theater over 100 years ago, launching a move toward naturalism that influenced modern theater and film in more ways than we can imagine."--TheaterMania