Feral Cate Blanchett Seduces in ‘Uncle Vanya’: Review

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Cate Blanchett and her Sydney Theatre Company’s propulsive staging of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” hadn’t planned a New York stop on its world tour when I reviewed it last August in Washington.

But Lincoln Center Festival chief Nigel Redden smartly booked it into City Center. Now New Yorkers have a chance to see this febrile star’s Yelena, a lethally bored young wife.