Tom Stoppard Backs Moscow’s Teatr.doc
British playwright, director, and screenwriter Tom Stoppard has written an open letter in support...
Read MorePosted by Interfax | 29th Oct 2014 | Management, News, Russia
British playwright, director, and screenwriter Tom Stoppard has written an open letter in support...
Read MorePosted by RBTH and Dmitriy Romendik | 19th Oct 2014 | Adaptation, Review, Russia
The premier of Telluria caused little controversy when it opened in St. Petersburg. Maybe Russian...
Read MorePosted by Pauline Naryshkina | 16th Oct 2014 | News, Russia, Theatre and Dance
While not as well known as the Bolshoi or the Mariinsky, the Mikhailovsky Theater’s leadership...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 7th Oct 2014 | Directing, Essay, Russia
The death of Yury Lyubimov in Moscow on Sunday morning, October 5, 2014, at the age of 97, puts...
Read MorePosted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Svetlana Mazúrova | 26th Sep 2014 | Management, Review, Russia
The illustrious theater’s New Stage will present its season opener on September 26. The...
Read MorePosted by John Freedman | 26th Sep 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre and Politics
On occasion, rather than buried and hidden somewhere, essences lie right there on the surface,...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 25th Sep 2014 | Festivals, New York, News, United States of America
Eastern and Non-Western theater performances are not to be missed. In terms of seeing Asian art, Heisei Nakamura-za features some of the most impressive Kabuki theater in the world. Heisei Nakamura-za’s current production, Kaidan Chibusa no Enoki (The Ghost Tale of the Wet Nurse Tree), was a revelation. The performance was held from July 7th – 12th at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center.
Read MorePosted by Ilana Walder-Biesanz | 7th Sep 2014 | Festivals, Germany, Iran, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations
“Alienation” drones Ivanov’s English-learning tape in the second act of the production. The...
Read MorePosted by Joy Neumeyer | 1st Sep 2014 | Essay, Russia
Under Valery Gergiev’s leadership, the Mariinsky has emerged from the post-Soviet crisis to become...
Read MorePosted by Dara Weinberg | 22nd Aug 2014 | Essay, Festivals, Poland
American writer/director, Dara Weinberg, live-blogs for TheTheatreTimes.com from Teatr...
Read MorePosted by Mark Steven | 31st Jul 2014 | Australia, Review, Theatre and Politics
“I’m a poet. That’s what makes me interesting.” So begins the autobiography of Vladimir...
Read MorePosted by Molly Flynn | 30th Jul 2014 | Belarus, Directing, Interview
Nicolai Khalezin is the director of the Belarus Free Theatre’s newest production Red Forest. He...
Read MorePosted by Robin Ashenden | 25th Jun 2014 | Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom
David Schneider is probably most recognizable as BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers in I’m Alan...
Read MorePosted by Dmitriy Romendik | 16th Jun 2014 | Essay, Russia, Theatre for Young Audiences
There are over 200 theaters in Moscow. In addition to the traditional drama and music theaters,...
Read MorePosted by Magda Romanska | 16th Jun 2014 | Interview, Theatre and Science, United States of America
Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Złoczów, Poland. Having survived the German Nazi occupation, in...
Read MorePosted by Dmitriy Romendik | 4th Jun 2014 | News, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Director and artist Dmitry Krymov’s production of Opus No.7, about the Holocaust and the...
Read MorePosted by Irina Kruzhilina | 30th May 2014 | Festivals, News, Russia
A theatrical event that recently kicked off in St. Petersburg is to set sail on an unusual voyage....
Read MorePosted by Molly Flynn | 27th May 2014 | Documentary Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Natalya Vorozhbit is Ukraine’s leading playwright and co-author of Maidan: Voices from the...
Read MorePosted by Tina Nandha | 19th May 2014 | News, Playwriting, Theatre and Politics, Ukraine
Before Maidan events faded from people’s memories, playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit brought the...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 14th May 2014 | Bulgaria, Interview
What is your first childhood memory of theatre? I have no clear memories of the theatre as a...
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