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New York Times

All Alone in a Crowded Country Home
It feels right that the proportions are all wrong in Sam Mendes’s seriously comic production of “The Cherry Orchard.”

New York Daily News

'Cherry' blossoms at BAM
With talk of reform everywhere, it's an ideal moment to mount "The Cherry Orchard," now in bloom at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Anton Chekhov's last play is, after all, about the resistance to change

New York Post

Play's ripe for the picking
The production of "The Cherry Or chard" that opened this week is as much an act of diplomacy as the ater. This first entry of...

Associated Press

Bridge Project births a splendid 'Cherry Orchard'
The old order passes with remarkable poignancy in Sam Mendes' splendid, stylish revival of "The Cherry Orchard," the first production of the director's laudable Bridge Project, a new attempt at trans-Atlantic theater cooperation.

Wall Street Journal

Chekhov's Fingerprints
Dancing at Lughnasa in FL; Cherry Orchard at BAM

Bloomberg.com

Mendes Gets Symbolic in Transatlantic `Cherry Orchard' at BAM: John Simon
The Bridge Project, an admirable venture between London and New York, gets going this week with Chekhov’s last play, “The Cherry Orchard,” directed by Sam Mendes at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Variety

Review: The Cherry Orchard
...but Sam Mendes' robust staging of Stoppard's witty new adaptation boasts strong ensemble work, centered by the gravitas and emotional nuance of Simon Russell Beale's riveting Lopakhin.

Back Stage

The Cherry Orchard reviewed by David Sheward
"People shouldn't go to plays. They should look in the mirror at their gray lives," says the confused, disheartened Madame Ranevskaya in Tom Stoppard's compassionate yet brutally realistic adaptation of The Cherry Orchard.

TheaterMania

Review: The Cherry Orchard
Simon Rusell Beale and Sinead Cusack are heartbreaking in Sam Mendes' often disappointing production of Anton Chekhov's melancholic drama.

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Alexis Soloski: Mendes's Cherry Orchard gives a view of the Bridge
The Bridge Project's vision of Anglo-American collaboration has finally been realised in Sam Mendes's production. But the differences are more interesting than the similarities.

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