The Anatomy of Lost Love: Russian Culture at War
Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize two breakaway, Russian-backed republics in Ukraine on...
Read Moreby John Freedman | Feb 24, 2022 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics | 0
Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize two breakaway, Russian-backed republics in Ukraine on...
Read Moreby Valeria Paikova | Feb 15, 2021 | Acting, Essay, Russia | 0
Konstantin Stanislavsky’s ideas changed the face of theater as much as Albert Einstein’s theory of...
Read Moreby Valeria Paikova | Nov 22, 2020 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics | 0
Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the movers and shakers in...
Read Moreby Anton Sanatov | Aug 18, 2020 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Russia | 0
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third...
Read Moreby Vassili Schedrin | Aug 16, 2020 | Acting, Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics | 0
Solomon Mikhoels, the beloved star of the Soviet Yiddish theater, was once asked how long he...
Read Moreby Vassili Schedrin | Jul 12, 2020 | Essay, Israel, Russia | 0
Solomon Mikhoels, one of the founders and greatest stars of the Soviet Yiddish theater, wrote in...
Read Moreby Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | May 1, 2019 | Essay, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Russia, Theatre and Dance | 0
He was first in every sense: the first Soviet performer to refuse to return from an international...
Read Moreby Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | Mar 14, 2019 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics | 0
While acclaimed American performance artist Marina Abramovic was exploring her own body, Russian...
Read Moreby Pavel Rudnev | Feb 28, 2019 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics | 0
In the year 2017 Russian society passed through the jubilee of the Bolshevik Revolution. It would...
Read Moreby Emiliia Dementsova | Feb 22, 2019 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured | 0
On the eve of 2019’s “Year of Theatre” in Russia, Emiliia Dementsova looks back...
Read Moreby Alex Trustrum Thomas | Oct 12, 2018 | Essay, Festivals, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured | 0
The Liubimovka, for those not in the know, is the annual festival of young dramaturgy held in...
Read Moreby Yulia Shamporova | Jul 4, 2018 | Acting, Essay, Russia | 0
Though Mayakovsky turns 125 this year, his words continue to resonate with our lives today....
Read Moreby Emiliia Dementsova | May 25, 2018 | Adaptation, Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured | 0
It is impossible to put it in writing, but to record the horror of the thing here is a black cross...
Read Moreby Oliver Bennett | May 22, 2018 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics | 0
Despite being a revolutionary and futuristic masterpiece by Mayakovsky, Meyerhold, and Malevich,...
Read Moreby Zhanna Zaretskaya | Apr 20, 2018 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics | 0
Note from TTT: Alexei Malobrodsky, former director of Moscow’s Gogol Center, has been in pretrial...
Read Moreby Marina Davydova | Apr 5, 2018 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics | 0
Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, arrested in August 2017 for alleged fraud, is the...
Read Moreby Pavel Rudnev | Jan 25, 2018 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured | 0
The movement for the renewal of the repertoire and new playwriting in Russia is hardly more than...
Read Moreby Emiliia Dementsova | Dec 15, 2017 | Directing, Essay, News, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics | 0
World-renowned Russian and Soviet theatre director Yuri Lyubimov (1917–2014) rose to fame and...
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