Uncle Vanya

Dueling Vanyas! As Hudson Classical Theater Company presents Uncle Vanya uptown at Riverside Park, Shakespeare Downtown takes on the same play at Battery Park's Castle Clinton. (Despite its name, the company does not limit itself to Shakespearean works.)  This version of Chekhov's bittersweet masterwork, directed and translated by Geoffrey Horne, stars Evan Olson as the life-thwarted title character and Billie Andersson, Juan Pablo Toro, Scarlett Strasberg and Timothy Nolan as romantically dissatisfied members of his extended family, each in their own way stuck in place.