Dostoevsky is hard to read, harder to translate, and even harder to adapt for stage. The Mutt by Streetcar Productions and Art Against Humanity (run from September 10-21, 2025 at IATI Theate…
Soviet nonconformist art was emerged in the 1950s when artists dared to transcend the official canon of Socialist realism which prescribed rigid themes, genres, and design. The reds and yell…
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 unattai…
"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 his wife …
"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 actress Zulla, one o…
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 Granovsky…
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, …
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 life …
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 playe…
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 human…