"The Cherry Orchard," Mark Taper Forum. Alfred Molina, far and away the greatest Lopakhin I've encountered, brought luminous complexity to Sean Mathias' production, which also featured a few genuinely Chekhovian moments of tearful laughter courtesy of Annette Bening, Jason Butler Harner and Sarah Paulson, among others.

 

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