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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Another World. Mihail Sebastian’s “A Star without a Name” at PM Theater by Vassili Schedrin

Cruel war rages on without an end; another bloody war has just started. This is our world today. Amid suffering and violence, we yearn for another world—one without war. Even if it’s una…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:25PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Russian Theater Beyond Time and Place. On the 25th Anniversary of the STEPS Theatre by Vassili Schedrin

“Time means nothing. That is, it does, but not in the way we think,” says Joseph, the protagonist of the play “Ask Joseph,” by Slava Stepnov and Roman Freud. He tries to explain to h…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:20AM
Friday, June 17, 2022

The Meaning of Theater: Slava Stepnov’s “Flawed Choir” at the Steps Theatre by Vassili Schedrin

“All the world’s a stage,” says a character in William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” “Life is theater,” as we say today. “I want to see meaning in theater,” says young …

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:54AM
Monday, May 30, 2022

Mikhoels by Freud: “The Singing Windmills” by Roman Freud and the PM Theater Company by Vassili Schedrin

Why do we still remember theater that became history many decades ago? How do we remember plays that disappeared without a trace, physically gone, erased from memory? Wasn’t Alexei Granovs…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:59AM
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Preserving, Documenting, and Archiving Theater. An Interview with Dmitrii Rodionov, Director of the State Central Theatrical Museum in Moscow. by Vassili Schedrin

An 1890s red brick, neo-gothic mansion, situated on a busy intersection of central Moscow, houses one of the largest and richest world collections—including visual art, a library, archives…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:31PM
Friday, September 25, 2020

Dzigan and Shumacher: Before “Cabaret” and “Schindler’s List.” An Interview with Diego Rotman by Vassili Schedrin

My family is not Jewish and therefore I never celebrated Jewish holidays at home. However, I have celebrated them—Sabbath, Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, Passover—in meaningful moments of my l…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:08AM
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Archive on Stage: Enacting Life, Performing Politics by Vassili Schedrin

Solomon Mikhoels, the beloved star of the Soviet Yiddish theater, was once asked how long he worked on the role of King Lear. Mikhoels’s reply was: 45 years. Mikhoels explained that he pla…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:24PM
Sunday, July 12, 2020

The Birth of Jewish Theatre by Vassili Schedrin

Solomon Mikhoels, one of the founders and greatest stars of the Soviet Yiddish theater, wrote in 1919, “fierce raged the tempest of revolution on the street…and human eyes and overly hum…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:25AM
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