A fresh take on a classic by the Tony Award-winning playwright of The Humans Mr. Karam s plays aren t tearful but they are often about loss--of love of health of innocence--and the messy haphazard necessary ways we get on with our lives afterward... He specializes in painful comedies that really shouldn t be as funny as they are. Karam is a mature writer very much in command of his gifts. --New York Times Stephen Karam is among the very best of his generation of playwrights. --New York Magazine The more you see Anton Chekhov s final play the weirder it seems... The Cherry Orchard contains distinctly bizarre touches: unexplained offstage noises ominous portents of revolution and a morbid ending that s nearly Beckettian... Adapter Stephen Karam layers American accents (racial and immigration anxieties) into his lean accessible script. --Time Out New York Stephen Karam is known for his dedication to exploring the idiosyncrasies of human speech and behavior--the subtleties the depth and the wonderfully awkward minutiae. With this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard Chekhov s canonical masterpiece about a family on the brink of bankruptcy Karam s fluid style pairs harmoniously with the work of the master playwright. Stephen Karam is the author of two plays that were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: The Humans in 2016 and Sons of the Prophet in 2012. The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play. His other work includes the play Speech & Debate and a film adaptation of Chekhov s The Seagull for Sony Pictures Classics.