Theatre After COVID: The 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival in Search for Theatrical Magic and Forms of Philosophical Transgressions – Part I
I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 6th Aug 2022 | Avignon 2022, Directing, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Religion
I arrived at the 2022 Avignon Theatre Festival seeking emotional rejuvenation after two years of...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 29th Apr 2021 | Festivals, Russia, Theatre and Politics
The Russian Case: History, politics and eternal values Spring, with all of its uncertain promise,...
Read MorePosted by Philippa Wehle | 26th Sep 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, News
Writing about non verbal communication in his book Beaux Gestes; A Guide to French Body Talk, the...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 8th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre...
Read MorePosted by Alexandra Guzeva - Russia Beyond the Headlines | 1st May 2019 | Essay, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Russia, Theatre and Dance
He was first in every sense: the first Soviet performer to refuse to return from an international...
Read MorePosted by Sergey Elkin | 26th Mar 2019 | Interview, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Dance
Sergey Elkin interviews composer Ilya Demutsky about the Joffrey’s new ballet of Anna Karenina
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 22nd Feb 2019 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured
On the eve of 2019’s “Year of Theatre” in Russia, Emiliia Dementsova looks back...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 13th Oct 2018 | Acting, News, Russia
The Yury Lyubimov award presentation ceremony took place in Moscow on October 2. While the guests...
Read MorePosted by Zhanna Zaretskaya | 20th Apr 2018 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics
Note from TTT: Alexei Malobrodsky, former director of Moscow’s Gogol Center, has been in pretrial...
Read MorePosted by Marina Davydova | 5th Apr 2018 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics
Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, arrested in August 2017 for alleged fraud, is the...
Read MorePosted by Russia Beyond | 6th Mar 2018 | News, Russia, Theatre and Dance
Pre-sale tickets to the show about the legendary dancer begin in March. The ballet about the life...
Read MorePosted by Anna Gordeeva | 24th Feb 2018 | Review, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Dance
The glass pavilions that appeared on Teatralnaya Square after the reconstruction of the Bolshoi...
Read MorePosted by Maria Kroupnik | 1st Feb 2018 | Festivals, News, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured
The second “Mandelshtam-Fest” took place at Voronezh Chamber Theatre on December 8–10, 2017....
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 9th Jan 2018 | Italy, News
The 16th ceremony of the Europe Theatre Prize and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities took place...
Read MorePosted by Molly T. Blasing | 9th Jan 2018 | Playwriting, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured, Theatre and Politics
Akhmatova. Poema Bez Geroia (Akhmatova. Poem Without A Hero) has been nominated for a 2017 Golden...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 21st Dec 2017 | Italy, News
The XIV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities went to Susanne Kennedy, Jernej Lorenci, Yael Ronen,...
Read MorePosted by Emiliia Dementsova | 9th Dec 2017 | Essay, Russia
In a few days, two prestigious theatre awards are to be presented at a ceremonial event: the...
Read MorePosted by Nikolai Klimeniouk | 22nd Nov 2017 | News, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Transparency International-Russia’s recent report on the financial operations of Russia’s state...
Read MorePosted by Oxana Bondarenko and Emiliia Dementsova | 29th Oct 2017 | Essay, Russia, Russian Theatre - Featured
In the last 20 years theatre has kept pace with changes in civil society in Russia. Society has...
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