This July, the Royal Shakespeare Company stages Laura Wade’s new version of Anton Chekhov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard, which is set in a Russia tilting toward revolution. Helen Hunt stars as Madame Ranyevskaya, an aristocrat who returns from five years in Paris to find her estate buried in debt and her beloved cherry orchard up for auction. Kenneth Branagh plays Lopakhin, the son of a serf who insists the family must sell, with Bill Pullman as Gaev. Directed by the RSC’s co-artistic director Tamara Harvey, this collision of past and future is tragic and comic in equal measure. —Clara Scholl