Chekhov’s masterful last play The Cherry Orchard is a work of timeless bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical this subtle intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason.<br><br>An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:<br>Marsha Mason as Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya<br>Hector Elizondo as Leonid Andreyevich Gayev<br>Michael Cristofer as Yermolay Alekseyevich Lopakhin <br>Jennifer Tilly as Dunyasha (Avdotya Fyodorovna)<br>Joey Slotnick as Semyon Panteleyevich Yepikhodov <br>Christy Keefe as Anya Ranyevskaya<br>Amy Pietz as Varya Ranyevskaya<br>Jordan Baker as Charlotta Ivanovna <br>Jeffrey Jones as Boris Borisovich Semyonov-Pischick<br>Charles Durning as Feers <br>John Chardiet as Yasha <br>Tim DeKay as Pyotr Sergeyevich Trofimov <br>John Chardiet as Passer-By<br><br>Translated and adapted by Frank Dwyer and Nicholas Saunders. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles.