The actor stars in Chekhov’s classic at Lincoln Center Theater, where both cast and staging struggle to cohere.

"The Office" star Steve Carell makes his Broadway debut in "Uncle Vanya," a fine but rarely transcendent revival of Anton Chekhov's classic play.

The “Uncle Vanya” that opened on Wednesday at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, its 10th Broadway revival in 100 years, sees Chekhov’s epochal bet and raises it. If Vanya is properly no hero in this amusing but rarely deeply affecting production, it’s because he’s no one at all. He despairs and disappears.

Filled with sad-sack characters living lives of soul-sucking boredom, Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” ain’t ever a walk in the park to produce or, for that matter, to watch. Still, the new Lincoln Center production from the typically reliable director Lila Neugebauer is so disconnected and alienating that,

Academy Award-winner Steve Carell makes his Broadway debut in Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA opening tonight at The Lincoln Center Theater. Read the reviews!

Steve Carell and Alison Pill in Uncle Vanya. Marc J. Franklin In the latest rendition of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, renowned performers grapple with their characters’ disparate realities and struggles within the confines of Lincoln Center Theater’s expansive stage.