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Music finds a new home in Russia

February 18, 2012 Alexandra Mashukova, Vedomosti Friday
A musical which portrays an American journalist, who discovers his Russian roots, will open at the Gorbunov Palace of Culture

Hvorostovsky takes on The Met

February 15, 2012 Ayano Hodouchi
Beloved Russian baritone's acting stands out while his voice is overshadowed

Dramatizing Russia’s protests

February 14, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
A talented British playwright is turning his spotlight on the recent demonstrations against electoral fraud in Russia

Dmitry Hvorostovsky will perform in New York

January 31, 2012 Ayano Hodouchi
Baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky returns to New York's Metropolitan Opera in beginning of February as King Carlos in Verdi’s opera “Ernani”

And I am telling you I am not going…

December 22, 2011 Marina Shimadina
Like the Dreamgirl spurned, the Russian musical had had to fight for survival. But it’s safe to say it’s here to stay

American playwright uses Russian language to say what can't be said

December 19, 2011 Nora FitzGerald
In “Close Up Space,” the Russian language expresses a gulf of grief between father and daughter

The Mariinsky faces new challenges

December 2, 2011 Anisia Boroznova
While people anticipate the construction of the Mariinsky Theater's second stage, the urgent need of repairing its old building has become more pressing

A Bolshoi adrift in Mariinsky's shadow

December 1, 2011 Ayano Hodouchi
Russian conductor and artistic director Valery Gergiev has emerged as a charismatic cultural ambassador. His vision for the Mariinsky Theater overshadows the Bolshoi today, but his best performances are not at home

Stages far from Moscow defy regional stereotypes

November 11, 2011 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Perm’s U Mosta Theater has explored Irish writer Martin McDonough’s eerie world of outsiders, savants and crazies

Lights on at the Bolshoi!

October 29, 2011 Paul Duvernet
A dark theater for six years, the Bolshoi Theater’s main stage and opera house hopes to reclaim its role as Russia’s cultural heart

Kings of the Dance kick-start tour in Moscow

October 21, 2011 Anna Galaida, Vedomosti.ru
The Russian-U.S. ballet project Kings of the Dance, which five years ago revolutionized ballet, is back in Moscow with new dancers and a new program

Rock-'n-Roll for those who care

September 22, 2011 Alena Legostaeva
Tom Stoppard and the characters in his play to help raise money for Russian hospice patients

So, do theater and politics mix in Russia?

August 12, 2011 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Jailed businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsy and writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya came together to discuss the state of the State of Russia – on a theatre stage

The reality of nostalgia

July 20, 2011 Anastasia Gorokhova
SSSR Productions invite the audience to participate in their vibrant soul-searching stage performance

Cinderella gets a makeover

July 7, 2011 Anastasia Gorokhova
A young director is breathing fresh air into the legendary Moscow Children’s Musical Theatre

Are Russians and Americans really the same?

June 10, 2011 John 
Freedman, the Moscow Times
Russian and American dramatists seem closer than one could think

Chekhov, our contemporary

May 13, 2011 Phoebe Taplin
The National Theatre’s “Cherry Orchard” opens this week, in a London gripped by Chekhov fever

True grit causes a real stir on the contemporary stage

April 20, 2011 Emmanuel Grynszpan
A new breed of realist dramatists has surfaced to take on the Moscow mainstream

A poet’s tragic end

February 28, 2011 Ruth Wyneken
Playwright Anna Yablonskaya's work lives on

Learning the method

August 25, 2010 Phoebe Taplin, special to Russia Now
The way Russians talk about theater is like talking about religion.
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