The director, Kirill Serebrennikov, is known for productions with thinly veiled criticism of the Russian government. His contract at the Gogol Center was not renewed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AMMikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, who died this spring, founded Teatr.doc, a company that addressed society’s ills and took the Putin government to task.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMA theater that resisted government attempts to ban a black comedy about the Soviet era backed down, but the overt censorship has raised concerns in Russia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMScouts from Russia and beyond hunt for talent at the year-end Moscow Circus School shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMA technicality has stalled a Moscow production of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” although the subject matter might be the bigger issue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMThe Culture Ministry said Boris Mezdrich had failed to mitigate an outcry among the Russian Orthodox Church who were offended by various aspects of the production of “Tannhauser.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:16PMThe soprano Anna Netrebko made a donation to an opera house in Donetsk, a city controlled by pro-Russian separatists, but said it was not a political act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMThe Bolshoi Theater announced plans for the 2014-15 season this week, including productions to mark the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMTugan Sokhiev of the Orchestre National du Capitole in Toulouse, France, will take over from Vassily Sinaisky, who resigned abruptly last month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMA former star ballerina resigns as artistic director of the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:55PMThe appointment of Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a former Bolshoi Ballet star, as head of the Vaganova Ballet Academy, prompts harsh criticism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMAnatoly Iksanov, the theater’s general director, told Russian television that he doesn’t believe that the mastermind behind the January acid attack on Sergei Filin, the ballet company’…
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