La MaMa Announces International Slate For This Summer At La MaMa Umbria
Artistic directors from eight international theater companies – representing Palestine, Russia, Pakistan, Singapore, Germany, US and Ukraine – will lead workshops for directors at La MaMa's 24th Annual International Symposium in Spoleto, Umbria, with residencies July 10 to August 8, 2023, it has been announced by David J. Diamond, Curator of La MaMa Umbria International, an essential program for experimental theater artists since 1990.
Stage Russia Unveils 5th Season Line Up
Stage Russia is set to return for its 5th season this November with a line up of comedies and dramas staged and performed by Russia's best and brightest artists. The new season, factoring in the ongoing pandemic, will be offered utilizing a hybrid approach of in-cinema presentations along with a variety of streaming options.
25th Istanbul Theatre Festival to Take Place This October and November
With the slogan “Theatre In These Trying Times”, the 25th edition of the festival has set out to breathe fresh air into both the world of theatre and to theatre lovers with a programme of mostly new productions that look at the world, which is in search of a new normal, through the lens of theatre.
BWW Review: SERYOZHA at Moscow Art Theatre - Everything Was In Astonishment
Dmitry Krymov has directed a new 'Anna Karenina' - and named it by her son's name, 'Seryozha'. 'This is a stage play based on motifs of a great novel, I would even say, on very distant motifs', the director explained his work where most of the Tolstoy's characters are erased, where Anna is transformed into Lyudmila Shaposhnikova from Vasily Grossman's novel 'Life and Fate' - and where the feeling of losing a child is clearly similar both in 19th century and during the Great World War.