News archive on the topic "theater"

Two theatrical premieres were shown in Crimea last weekend. Vladimir Mashkov showed “The Bumbarash Passion” on the open stage in Chersonese Tauride, and Sergei Garmash brought the literary and musical composition “And life, and tears, and love.” In the performance, he is accompanied by artists from the Lugansk and Donetsk Philharmonic Societies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A year ago, Oleg Tabakov’s theater under the direction of Mashkov already showed...

High cultural officials are very worried about the cancellation of foreign tours and the loss of foreign real estate. Whereas the state could receive millions for the use of Russian ballet productions on world stages. The rector of the Academy of Russian Ballet named after. Vaganova, People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Tsiskaridze, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. According to the artist, many...

The husband of the scandalous TV journalist Ksenia Sobchak, director Konstantin Bogomolov, continues to receive large sums from the state budget for his dubious “creativity”, despite the fact that immediately after the start of the SVO he fled to Israel. Bogomolov successfully maneuvers, flirting with the liberals and the authorities. The situation with his play “An Ideal Husband” is typical, which caused outrage among believers for demonstrating the cross in...

The previously announced online session of the Kharkiv Regional Council has not yet taken place. And thank God, they decided at the Pushkin Drama Theater. The fact is that the deputy corps intended, within the framework of the war declared by Ukraine against everything Russian, to remove the name of the great poet from the name of the theater and find him a new, ideologically consistent “patron”. Taking advantage of the pause, the troupe and the theater management offered their...

During Soviet times, Lenin’s phrase “Art belongs to the people and should be understandable to the masses” was quoted many times. Its source was a memoir by Clara Zetkin, published translated from German in the March 1924 issue of the magazine Kommunist. Not much time passed, and among the figures of Soviet culture, accustomed to powerful support from the state and partially...

The PR people of the Crimean Tatar State Drama Theater made serious mistakes when advertising their play “Amet Khan - the Heavenly Sultan,” which is scheduled to premiere on April 23 in Sevastopol. Alena Maiko, a Sevastopol activist and member of the Public Council under the Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights of the Russian Federation, drew attention to the inconsistencies, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It’s a pity that the tradition of doing it out of the blue is taking root. In short, they hanged...

Young Russian actresses want to be like catwalk models, but in the end there is no one to play ordinary women. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Olga Lyubimova, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, spoke about this in an interview with Izvestia. According to her, a large number of serial productions of excellent quality are launched in the country, but sometimes finding actors there is a big problem. “Two years ago for the role...

The Kherson Drama Theater staged the play “The Offended. Belarus” “based on the script” of the fugitive Belarusian opposition playwright Andrei Kureichik, where Alexander Lukashenko is presented in an unattractive light. This was reported by the Ukrainian TV channel “Home” created by Vladimir Zelensky’s team “for temporarily occupied territories,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I wrote because I couldn’t remain silent and I couldn’t help but reflect. It seems to me that the public...

The legendary actor Sergei Garmash left the no less legendary Sovremennik Theater. He served him, as bad journalists write, faithfully for 36 years. Garmash’s decision is due to the fact that the theater was headed by Viktor Ryzhakov instead of the late Galina Volchek. And then, as the actor reports, totalitarianism, nepotism, a monstrous split and other obscenities began. Similar rumors flew from the theater...

The Kiev “Theater on Podol”, built by the Roshen company of ex-president Petro Poroshenko, refused to communicate with the audience in Russian and put a screenshot of its “dialogue” on public display. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the viewer contacted the theater administration on social networks to clarify the schedule. When they answered him in Ukrainian, the administration was asked to switch to Russian. For this in the theater...

The Nikolaev Academic Art Russian Drama Theater decided to celebrate May 9 after a scandal in the local regional council. Thus, at a meeting of the commission on cultural issues, secretary Svetlana Gladun complained that the drama theater refused to hold festive events in honor of Victory Day, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to Novosti-N. “There must be an order from the head of the Regional State Administration on the approved action plan. For example, I heard...

On December 26 last year, Galina Volchek died, who had been at the helm of one of the most popular theaters in the country, Sovremennik, for almost 50 years. With the untimely departure of the artistic director, the question arose: who will head the theater instead of Volchek? There were rumors that the most likely successor would be the famous and highly respected contemporary actor Sergei Garmash, but harsh everyday life introduced its own adjustments. Instead of a People's Artist...

In Donetsk, despite the war and blockade, the theater venue was restored - the Stage on Sadovoy, which is designed for 238 spectators. It is located in a historical building, built in the 19th century by the merchants Tudorovsky brothers and until 1918 known as the Tudorovsky Theater. This was the first theater in Donetsk (then Yuzovka). In the 20s of the last century, the theater...

The troupe of the Lugansk Musical and Drama Theater will show its own production on the Moscow stage - an hour and a half rock opera “Crucified Youth”, dedicated to the history of the Young Guard during the Great Patriotic War. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ukrainian journalist Yuri Kot, who now lives in the Russian capital, reported this on his social network page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is a unique...