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Chekhov’s short stories became the highest-scoring show beyond Broadway

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 07/08/2018 10:00 AM

Performances celebrating the short stories of Anton Chekhov Read More

Will London fall for Russian unprincipled behaviour?

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 06/08/2018 10:00 AM

The project by Aleksandr Tsypkin comes to London Read More

The acclaimed Russian artists Sergei Makovetsky returns to London

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 01/08/2018 10:00 AM

The one-man play is be on in London for one day only Read More

Our pick at Edinburgh Fringe: A story of a Soviet soldier as told by his grandson

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/07/2018 10:00 AM

Don't miss the latest production by Anatoly Ogay and Tatiana Kim Read More

RED. AN ARTIST’S MINDMAP

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 14/07/2018 10:09 PM

When looking forward to seeing a work of art, a certain play or a performance what is our feeling like? For me it is, first of all, a sense of an anticipation. Anticipation of discovery, an insight I have never had before, — a revelation of some sort! When frustrated, this expectation ends up in […] Read More

ALFRED MOLINA AS MARK ROTHKO IN RED, WYNDHAM’S THEATRE

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 12/07/2018 11:39 PM

Award-winning stage and screen actor Alfred Molina, who has most recently been seen in BBC’s acclaimed series, Feud, reprises his role as Russian-born master American expressionist Mark Rothko Having just received the largest commission in the history of modern art, Rothko finds himself consumed by warring desires for integrity and success. Molina is joined by breakthrough British […] Read More

New! OPERA PUSHKIN PREMIERES AT GRANGE PARK OPERA

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 11/07/2018 10:11 PM

Two giants in Russia’s tumultuous history: the nation’s poet Pushkin and the nation’s Tsar, Nicholas I. Their relationship begins with mutual need and mutual admiration. Mad with notions of his wife’s infidelity, Pushkin fights a fateful duel. Moscow’s Novaya Opera Theatre performs this thrilling world premiere of power, passion and politics in new opera by […] Read More

LONGREAD. KATIE MITCHELL ON CHEKHOV, STANISLAVSKY AND CHARACTERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD.

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 04/07/2018 11:00 AM

Katie, or rather, Katrina Jane Mitchell, is a leading British theatre director whose creative drive seems to be truly inexhaustible. Early in her career, she worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1996 she won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director. The Department of Theatre and Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum invited Mitchell and Leo Warner of 59 Productions to conceive […] Read More

SWAN LAKE

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 31/05/2018 9:00 AM

The Royal Ballet performs a new production of Tchaikovsky’s magnificent classical ballet. Production and additional choreography by Liam Scarlett and designs by John Macfarlane. Natalia Osipova performs on the following dates: Saturday, 9th of June Friday, 15th of June Tuesday, 19th June Read More

The Seagull Performed by The Acting Gymnasium

BY Tom Pandolfino POSTED 29/05/2018 10:35 AM

Anton Chekhov is renowned the world over for his innovative approach in portraying the darker side of life on stage. Yet, the very first production of The Seagull in 1896 was actually by no means an outright success. It was tremendously under-rehearsed and disliked by the audience. So fraught was to become Chekhov that he […] Read More

Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov’s Play, On the London Stage

BY Anna Prosvetova POSTED 19/05/2018 11:00 AM

Uncle Vanya is, perhaps, one of the most hopeless plays by Anton Chekhov. Talking about unfulfilled dreams and unrealised loves, it makes one recall their personal regrets and failures. However, its adaptation by the Maly Drama Theatre directed by Lev Dodin is surprisingly light, seemingly effortless, and inspiring. The show was staged at the Royal Haymarket […] Read More

Sergey Kuryshev: This Means Figuring Out Our Life And Presenting it on the Basis of The Classic Text

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 15/05/2018 3:45 PM

Tonight is the opening night of Uncle Vanya at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, In anticipation of the Chekhov’s play being offered to the London audience, we approached the leading actor of the Maly Drama Theatre Sergey Kuryshev (in Life and Fate he played Viktor Shtrum). Sergey, you have been working in theatre for a long time, […] Read More

Elizaveta Boyarskaya: Acting and Directing is More Than a Job — It Is A Mission

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 11/05/2018 4:20 PM

Following the premiere of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 8th May, we met with the young actress Elizaveta Boyarskaya, who plays Zhenya (I sometimes think of her as parallel to Pasternak’s Lara, even though it might be not exactly accurate) — one of the main protagonists in Grossman’s epic novel. […] Read More

An Unknown Friend and The Following Auction Raise over £16,000 for Children’s Charity

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 11/05/2018 10:00 AM

Musical performance starring Kseniya Rappoport and Polina Osetinskaya in London has raised more than £16,000 for the treatment of Russian children. On the 9th of May 2018 London hosted a premiere of the musical performance based on Ivan Bunin’s short story “An Unknown Friend”.More than £16,000have been raised from special ticket sales and charity auction for […] Read More

LEV DODIN BRINGS TO LIFE GROSSMAN’S LIFE & FATE ONSTAGE AT THE TRH

BY Emily Couch POSTED 09/05/2018 7:42 PM

Internationally acclaimed theatre director Lev Dodin and the legendary Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, deemed ‘the finest ensemble theatre in Europe’, bring Grossman’s classic novel of love and war to the London stage for its UK premiere. Vasily Grossman is perhaps the greatest Russian author the West never hears about. A Ukrainian Jew, Grossman […] Read More

Arrows & Traps: A Charming Rendition of Chekhov’s Three Sisters

BY Tom Pandolfino POSTED 10/04/2018 9:00 AM

‘To Moscow, to Moscow…’ The renowned lament in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters still manages to conjure up some of the most fundamental issues that plague our quotidian lives today. Ross McGregor’s new version of this great classic evokes the Chekhovian existential essence that troubles the Prozorov sisters: Irina, Masha, and Olga respectively. But, it’s […] Read More

Natalia Osipova and Vladimir Shklyarov, Manon at ROH

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 03/04/2018 7:11 PM

MacMillan found new sympathy with the capricious Manon and her struggle to escape poverty. Designs by his regular collaborator Nicholas Georgiadis reflect this, depicting a world of lavish splendour polluted by miserable destitution. MacMillan’s spectacular ensemble scenes for the whole Company create vivid, complex portraits of the distinct societies of Paris and New Orleans. Read More

Describe the Night at Hampstead Theatre

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 03/04/2018 10:00 AM

This darkly comic rhapsody on Russian themes explores the blurred lines between lies, fiction and conspiracy theories, as it tracks back and forth across 90 years of Soviet and post-Soviet history in search of the genesis of the post-truth world. Read More

Ward 6 at The Lion And Unicorn Pub Theatre

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 31/03/2018 3:00 PM

Highly acclaimed adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short novel “Ward 6”. Amongst the patients of a provincial lunatic asylum we find Nina from ‘The Seagull’, Sonia from ‘Uncle Vanya’ and other famous Chekhov characters… Read More

Chekhov’s Three Sisters By Arrows & Traps Theatre

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 22/03/2018 7:27 PM

Arrows & Traps Theatre to the Jack with their production of Chekhov’s tragicomic masterpiece, Three Sisters in a new version by Ross McGregor. In a rural backwater, three sisters dream of a better life and of returning to the Moscow of their childhood. Irina longs for purpose, Masha for passion and Olga for some peace. Set across four […] Read More

Dostoyevsky Staged at ROH, Janáček: From the House of the Dead

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 14/03/2018 10:15 AM

From the House of the Dead is Janáček’s final work and arguably his most powerful. Completed just before his death and first performed posthumously in 1930, the opera is based on Dostoyevsky’s semi-autobiographical novel describing life in a Siberian gulag. Janáček does not soften that harsh reality at the heart of his tale, but imbues the […] Read More

COCROACHES: NEW STAGING OF BULGAKOV’S FLIGHT, ETCETERA THEATRE

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 12/03/2018 3:45 PM

Cockroaches, the original translation and production of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Flight by Anastasiya Sosis is coming to Etcetera Theatre Camden 13-18 March 2018 Read More

A CLOUD IN TROUSERS: THE STRAY DOG CABARET, PUSHKIN HOUSE

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 07/03/2018 4:43 PM

A bilingual performance by JAG Art, a theatrical troupe which was founded by SSEES alumni. St. Petersburg was home to the Stray Dog Cabaret, where many of the poets, musicians and artists of the Silver Age first presented their works in the years before the Revolution. JAG Art’s hour-long […] Read More

MALY DRAMA THEATRE ST PETERSBURG IN LONDON

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 01/03/2018 12:46 PM

The legendary Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg – described by Peter Brook as ‘the finest ensemble theatre in Europe’ – returns to London this spring for a strictly limited engagement for the first time in over a decade. They present the UK première of Vasily Grossman’s epic novel Life and Fate and their celebrated […] Read More

New translation of The Cherry Orchard by Rory Mullarkey, directed by Michael Boyd, Bristol Old Vic, 1 March – 7 April

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 28/02/2018 5:25 PM

’Anton Chekhov’s new version of The Cherry Orchard is directed by Michael Boyd (former Artistic Director of the RSC) and translated by Rory Mullarkey. Despite training in Moscow and knowing Chekhov’s work intimately, this is the first time in Michael’s long and celebrated career that he has directed a Chekhov play. Drawing on their separate experiences of living in Russia, Michael and Rory have written a […] Read More

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