Cinderella gets a makeover
July 7, 2011 Anastasia Gorokhova
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
Learning the method
August 25, 2010 Phoebe Taplin, special to Russia Now
The way Russians talk about theater is like talking about religion.
Dancing with The Bolshoi this summer
June 29, 2010 Anna Galaida, special to
Russia Now
For the third time in five years the Bolshoi Theatre will give a summer season in London. This latest program, packed with gems from the 19th century to the present, would certainly fill even Muscovites with envy.
Mariinsky ballet in live 3D broadcast
April 26, 2010 Elena Marchan, Russia Now
St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater is the first company in the world to have broadcast a ballet in 3D
Chekhov Days fest for 150th birthday
January 27, 2010 John Freedman, The Moscow Times
Moscow celebrates the Anton Chekhov's birth with a six-day festival.
A tour de force for London
July 1, 2009 Elena Fyodorenko, Russia Now
St Peterburg's world-renowned Mariinsky Theatre returns to the UK this summer and it promises to be spectacular
The embodiment of joy and beauty
June 11, 2009 Elena Fyodorenko, Russia Now
Svetlana Zakharova's physical and emotional revelations stretch our idea of perfection in ballet
Singing the praises of Catherine
June 25, 2008 James Marson, The Moscow Times
Musical theatre was almost unknown in Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, foreign musicals such as Cats, Metro, Notre Dame de Paris and Chicago have filled theatres in Moscow and St Petersburg. Now Russian composers ha
