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Author >John 
Freedman

Soviet literature’s passport from Ann Arbor to the world

April 13, 2012 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Carl R. Proffer, an American prominent publisher, started printing Soviet and Russian literature at home and selling it by mail after he had founded Ardis Publishers in the early 1970s

Russian directors take on Yale Drama playwrights

March 17, 2012 John 
Freedman
It was politics and Bertolt Brecht that brought David Chambers to Russian theater many years ago. As Chambers recalls it now, he could feel the great Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold “looming in the background” as he studied the work of Brecht

A playwright supports Putin

February 10, 2012 John 
Freedman, The Moscow Times
Nikolai Kolyada, one of the nation's most respected playwrights, directors and theatrical visionaries, joined Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's presidential campaign in Yekaterinburg which resulted in a lot accusations and even a bit of petty vandalism

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

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

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