Special Theatres Give The Disabled Self-Expression
For people with physical or intellectual disabilities, the art of theatre is the powerful mode of...
Read MorePosted by Georgy Manaev | 24th Sep 2013 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Disability
For people with physical or intellectual disabilities, the art of theatre is the powerful mode of...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 21st Sep 2013 | Essay, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations
Some of London’s most innovative theatres and theatre companies are inspired by Russia but in very...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 12th Sep 2013 | Japan, Review, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations
“I have rarely seen a great production of any Chekhov play in Japan. Sometimes, I’ve even wanted...
Read MorePosted by Alisa Orlova | 3rd Aug 2013 | Essay, Playwriting, Russia
It is impossible to imagine the Russian stage without the works of Alexander Ostrovsky – they are...
Read MorePosted by Paul Duvernet | 28th Jun 2013 | News, Russia, Theatre and Dance
The Bolshoi Theater’s new season opens Sept. 17. It will include seven new productions...
Read MorePosted by Alena Aniskiewicz | 25th Jun 2013 | Books, Poland, Translation
This beautiful new volume, a collection of three plays translated by Magda Romanska, is an...
Read MorePosted by Pauline Tillmann | 6th Jun 2013 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The new Mariinsky Theatre is a site of pilgrimage in St. Petersburg. Ballet and opera enthusiasts...
Read MorePosted by Ekaterina Vlasova and Moskovskie Novosti | 2nd Jun 2013 | Interview, Russia, Transcultural Collaborations
Cazimir Liske, an American actor at the Praktika Theatre, talks about Russia’s literary...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 6th May 2013 | Essay, Management, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Mitt Romney’s offhanded crusade against Big Bird, announced in a presidential debate with...
Read MorePosted by Dmitry Gvozdetsky and Moskoskiye Novosti | 3rd May 2013 | News, Russia, Translation
The Pyotr Fomenko Theatre is offering subtitles on tablet devices for foreign guests and...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 25th Apr 2013 | Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
A play in which the privileged are out of touch and the poor are getting poorer is all too apt in...
Read MorePosted by Nora Fitzgerald | 11th Apr 2013 | News, Russia, Theatre and Opera
The Washington National Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre enter the third year of an artist exchange...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 17th Mar 2013 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Science is an area of perennial fascination for the theatre. In the past, plays as various as Tom...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 16th Mar 2013 | Adaptation, News, Russia
William Boyd’s new play Longing, based on two short Chekov stories, is a sell-out success in...
Read MorePosted by Aleksei Krizhevsky | 11th Mar 2013 | Festivals, News, Russia
The drama program of Russia’s three-week-long, trendsetting, arts extravaganza opened on the first...
Read MorePosted by Stepan Ivanov | 17th Feb 2013 | Design, News, Russia
In an open letter to St. Petersburg, Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky asked citizens to wait...
Read MorePosted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 8th Feb 2013 | Dramaturgy, Interview, South Korea, Transcultural Collaborations
Walter Byongsok Chon is an assistant professor of dramaturgy and theatre studies at Ithaca...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 17th Jan 2013 | Acting, News, Russia
Born 150 years ago, Stanislavsky created the method that revolutionized 20th-century acting and...
Read MorePosted by Phoebe Taplin | 4th Jan 2013 | Adaptation, Review, Russia
A traditional version of Anton Chekhov’s play gets West End glamor and charm but lacks conviction....
Read MorePosted by Xenia Grubstein | 20th Dec 2012 | Acting, News, Russia
Konstantin Stanislavsky and his Method may have been unknown in the U.S. without the work of...
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