There's a lot of Chekhov on the program in June.

In Los Angeles, you can see his 1904 drama "The Cherry Orchard" at the Evidence Room Theatre Project, where it is playing through July 2. Chekhov's story line, of a family that is losing its wealth and its home, seems likely to have a lot of resonance for the Evidence Room cast: It is being forced by a lease dispute to move from its theater when the production closes.

Down near San Diego in Solana Beach, Calif. four directors are staging four Chekhov comedies. "Flies in the Snuffbox" at the North Coast Repertory Theatre will include "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco", "The Bear", "The Proposal" and "Swan Song". It's all on June 26, at 8 p.m. $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for children.

Up north, in Concord, Calif., you can also catch Chekhov's "The Bear". Sort of. The Willows Theatre is staging the Tony-award winning musical "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine". In case you've never seen this show, it's a doozy. In the first act, set in Grauman's Chinese Theater, you'll hear the cast performing classic Broadway show tunes. Act Two is set in Russia, and the cast gets to pretend they are Marx Brothers putting on Chekhov's play. Sounds crazy, but it works. It's running through July 1.

There's going to be a circus of a different sort in Philadelphia on June 5 and 6. The Russian American Kids Circus will be performing at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. As I've said before, the Kids Circus is good old-fashioned Russian-style circus fun, complete with acrobatics, juggling, unicycles and spinning plates. Your kids will get a kick out of the fact that the performers are children just like them. Both performances are at 12:30 p.m.

Also on June 6, the New York Society for Ethical Culture will be hosting a discussion of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych as part of its Classic Great Books Discussion Series. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. and you can call (212) 874-5210 for more information.

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina will get an intriguing treatment at the Main Street Playhouse in Hialeah , Florida next Friday June 8, at 6:30 p.m. Apparently, the old Cuban cigar factories used to employ lectors to read news and novels to the workers as they rolled cigars. "Anna in the Tropics" imagines what would have happened if the lector's chosen novel were Tolstoy's great book.

And two ongoing events of note. A collection of Faberge eggs is on display at Cheekwood Art & Garden in Nashville. The Matilda Geddings Gray Collection of 57 Faberge eggs includes the Imperial Caucasus Egg presented by Alexander III to his wife Maria Feodorovna on Easter Sunday 1893. And on June 12, the Cummer Museum in Jacksonville, Fla., unveils "Traditions in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs". It runs through Sept. 2.