Drive My Car: The bulk of the movie involves Yusuke directing a production of Uncle Vanya, in which he casts in the title role an actor who may have been having an affair with his wife before she died.
All the characters who appear in Tom Jacobsen's Bunbury: A Serious Play for Trivial People are characters who are mentioned but never seen in famous plays (such as Rosaline from Romeo and Juliet). It includes several characters from Three Sisters.
Family Guy: A flashback from "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Bucks" shows the Griffins attending a performance of Uncle Vanya, and a bored Peter shouts "What the hell is this?! For crying out loud, somebody throw a pie!"