Given how often Chekhov’s “Ivanov” fails in production, it’s impressive how much is right in Jonathan Bank’s staging for the National Asian American Theater Company

Jonathan Kalb, New York Times

Director Jonathan Bank and an excellent cast capture the elusive, evocative emotional landscape of Chekhov, where the audience never quite knows whether to laugh or cry.

Loren Noveck, NYTheatre.com

With its vivid depiction of a despairing figure lost in a small petty world fueled by vodka and fired by avarice, Ivanov is resplendent with dazzling dialogue and intriguing characters… After seeing this early play you will never again say that Chekhov wasn’t a master of funny dialogue.

Simon Saltzman, Curtain Up