The Russian Youth Theatre (RAMT) will celebrate the hundredth anniversary this year – just about time to start the search for new forms. RAMT set up the laboratory for search for new forms of communication with children and adolescents. Its aim is to create something that has never happened before. The experiment has no restrictions nor age nor genre. All theatre professionals and amateurs can take part. A potential participant should consider age of the intended audience, RAMT’s space and the quantity participants. The idea should be presented on two pages. Applications are accepted until September 30, and the results will be released in December.
The Yuri Lyubimov International Theatre Award was presented last Saturday to the prominent Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki at the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
The Meyerhold Center launches the new festival POEHALi!, which has the subtitle “touring” and aims to facilitate an exchange of performances among independent theatres in the world.
“Go in peace” is the name of the international documentary about the history and philosophy of garbage disposal, work on which began at the Yeltsin Center.
The two largest partners of the International Theatre Institute – the International Music Council IMC-CIM and the Internationale de la Marionnette – celebrate their anniversaries this year.
On September 27, the Ryazan drama releases another premiere, also an international project – “Cross the Sea” based on Carlo Collodi's fairy tale “Pinocchio”.
The Bakhrushin museum hosts an exhibition of works by the stage designe, the winner of the Golden Mask and the Prague Quadrennial Stepan Zohrabyan, Black and White Theatre.
“The Pianists” staged by Boris Pavlovich (Theatre “Globus”, Novosibirsk ) received the Golden Mask Award for the best drama performance of a small form.
Bashkir State Academic Drama Theatre named after Mazhit Gafuri brought to Moscow the play “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” that was nominated for six Golden Mask awards.
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val featured the world premiere of Ilya Demutsky's opera "Black Square". The main character it the original painting by Malevich.
On September 10, the State Kremlin Palace hosted the only ballet show with opera elements “The Crystal Palace”. It was shown on the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and Malta.
Asami Maki Ballet of Tokyo will become the first Japanese troupe to perform on the stage of Mariinsky Theater’s Maritime branch in Vladivostok next January.
Moscow theatre life, as you know, does not stop even in summer: while some finish the previous season, others are starting the next one. The end of August is time for announcing upcoming premieres.
A target of the new course is to educate a person of theatre in a broad sense - a specialist who would be well-informed about theatre history, contemporary art, and a process of mounting theatre production.
In August, a small Lithuanian resort Druskininkai once again became a theatre centre, hosting International Theatre Festival VASARA (which means “summer” in Lithuanian).
From July 20 to August 5, 2018 VDNH will host the 4th Annual Inspiration Art Festival. Every year its program is dedicated to a genre or a theme in arts. This year Inspiration has chosen theatre.
Dramatic Arts Center of Iran (DAC) is pleased to inform that there are some international activities which are going to take place in Iran (2018-2019).
In 2018, the International Theatre Institute is marking its 70th anniversary. Its creation became one of the artists’ responses to the world that had just survived World War II...
The Bolshoi is pondering a possibility of taking the 'Nureyev' ballet on a tour, the theater’s Director-General, Vladimir Urin told reporters on Thursday.
This year, Moscow’s 4th Festival “Proteatr. International meetings” has been dedicated to plastique expressiveness and interpretation of classics by special theatres.
“Fairy of Dolls” ballet performed by students of Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg will be shown in Switzerland for the first time in the beginning of February.
Alexandrinsky Theatre will present its recent premiere “Krum” based on the play of Israeli poet and playwright Hanoch Levin directed by French director Jean Bellorini.
On January 15, Mayakovsky Theatre, GITIS and Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya held a marathon of events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Andrey Alexandrovich Goncharov.
