Tom Stoppard on Chekhov

My published Flavorpill post:
One of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2008, Sir Tom Stoppard builds up the hype for a banner '09 with tonight's conversation on Anton Chekhov, whose seminal turn-of-the-century play The Cherry Orchard receives a Stoppardian update this January. New Yorker editor David Remnick — with his all-things-Russian pedigree — fields Stoppard's discoveries from adapting Chekhov, while also lobbing his own astute insights on the doyen of Russian theatre. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to the screenplay for Terry Gilliam's dystopic Brazil, Stoppard's oeuvre is earmarked by dark wit and nimble wordplay, so expect a few verbal fireworks with your healthy dosage of Russian Lit 101.