From eloquent period dramas to talking bears to Russian classics, Hugh Bonneville has every acting base covered.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with actor Hugh Bonneville about his starring role in the play Uncle Vanya, which is showing at D.C.'s Harman Hall.

Well, in the production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" now playing here in Washington, the gun goes off, and it is fired by none other than Uncle Vanya, played by Hugh Bonneville, who I have the ...