Roxy Cook’s A Woman Walks into a Bank at Theatre 503: Sublimely Beguiling Account of Everyday Life in Twenty-First Century Moscow
The recent news that Russia’s Supreme Court has banned the “international LGBT movement”,...
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“Cabaret” at the Theatre of Nations: Inside and Underwear of the Third Empire
Musical drama of unlearned lessons is perhaps the most appropriate definition for Evgeny...
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“Russia Is My Country, Who Better Than Me to Clean Up the Ruins of Our Humanity”: Interview with Elena Kovalskaya – Part I
Russia is my country, who better than me to clean up the ruins of our humanity. – Elena...
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Dolce & Duce: “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Mossovet Theatre
In a country at war, theatres continue to work… “(They) are so simple to offer war...
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“Cruel Games”—A Soviet Play in Post-Soviet Realities
Cruel Games at the Mossovet Theater is not just the name of a forgotten play by Alexei Arbuzov,...
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COVID—Brevis, Ars—Longa
It’s trite to write about how hard it is to live from lockdown to lockdown; from one mask...
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Preserving, Documenting, and Archiving Theater. An Interview with Dmitrii Rodionov, Director of the State Central Theatrical Museum in Moscow.
An 1890s red brick, neo-gothic mansion, situated on a busy intersection of central Moscow, houses...
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Vsevolod Meyerhold: The Revolutionary Communist Director Executed By Stalin
Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the movers and shakers in...
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Big Bolshoi: How the Theatre Got Its Name
The Moscow-located Bolshoi theatre quite literally translates to “Big” Theatre. And...
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Moscow Theatre Prompter Talks About Her ‘Dying’ Job
Nowadays, most theaters have stopped using prompters, but the Maly Theater cherishes this...
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Interview With Sasha Marianna Salzmann: The Playwright
When asked about her background, she tends to respond, “I come from the theatre:” playwright and...
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12 Seconds To The Year Of Theatre
On the eve of 2019’s “Year of Theatre” in Russia, Emiliia Dementsova looks back...
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“Anna Karenina Musical” At The Moscow Operetta Theatre
Anna Karenina at the Moscow Operetta Theatre is an original musical adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s...
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“Measure For Measure”: Shakespeare’s #MeToo Moment
Cheek by Jowl’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, performed in Russian by actors...
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When Theatre Meets Contemporaneity: Praktika Theatre In Moscow
Moscow theatre Praktika is the Russia’s first contemporary State theatre which played the key role...
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Too Close To Home: Stefano Massini’s “Intractable Woman”
A week after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the atomic scientists who keep the famous Doomsday...
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Why Did A Russian Provincial Theater Stage A Version Of Aldous Huxley’s Dystopian Novel?
While most regional theaters in Russia cling to traditions and go with old-school classical...
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How Did Gladiators Capture Modern-Day Moscow?
Caesar’s legionaries, Napoleon’s lancers, American Civil War soldiers, and even mammoth...
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The 10 Best-Known Russian Plays And Where To See Them In Moscow And St. Petersburg
From Fonvizin and Chekhov to Tolstoy, all on stage. The most famous Russian authors wrote not only...
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Russian Opera Singer Sets 2 World Records In St. Petersburg
Soprano sang highest ever note by a human, and also the most notes in a single second. On April 11...
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