Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, the year the play was written. There’s a baseball cap and a backpack with dayglow tape; pills are in plastic bottles with childproof caps; when someone runs out of ink while paying bills, they look for a new pen. What a difference 126 years can make!
And yet, judging by the state of the world and the human psyche depicted in Chekhov’s play, nothing at all has changed — man was destroying the planet then and still is, women were fighting for equal rights
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