What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages? By Jason Zinoman The film was a feature-length conversation. And it is still ...

To some members of the younger generation, Wallace Shawn is just “the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon.” To anyone whose first cellphone had an antenna, that assessment of Shawn’s career i ...