Chekhov’s masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is usually a function of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their position inside a changing world. Alternately coming in contact with and farcical, this delicate, intelligent play superstars the matchless Marsha Mason.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast overall performance starring:

Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya

Hector Elizondo while Leonid Andreyevich Gayev

Michael Cristofer seeing that Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin

Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna)

Joey Slotnick mainly because Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov

Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya

Amy Pietz as Varya Ranyevskaya

Jordan Baker seeing that Charlotta Ivanovna

Jeffrey Jones mainly because Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick

Charles Durning seeing that Feers

John Chardiet as Yasha

Tim DeKay seeing that Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov

John Chardiet mainly because Passer-By

Translated and modified by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.