Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

St Petersburg theatre festival: Death in Venice, trouble in Russia by Andrew Dickson

Amid unrest over the government's 'gay propaganda' laws, international directors grapple with politics " and a pig's headStrange days when a production of Death in Venice provokes an uproar, then ends in a theatre being defaced. But Russia can be a strange place at the moment. In the turbulent cultural atmosphere surrounding the country's passing of a law banning the promotion of "gay propaganda" earlier this year, i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PM on December 2, 2013

« Back to BroadwayStars