WASHINGTON — The telephone rang at the end of an excruciating day of pain and sorrow. Renowned documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya had spent October 7, 2006 trying to come to terms with the death of her friend, Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had been shot in the foyer of her apartment building in Moscow [...]
Tag: theater
December 3, 2011
November 9, 2011
The man who changed Hollywood
The man who changed Hollywood The city celebrates the iconic director and actor Orson Welles this weekend with a festival at Rodina movie theater. By Yekaterina Kravtsova The St. Petersburg Times Published: November 9, 2011 (Issue # 1682) FOR SPT Director and actor Orson Welles. Few can compare with legendary American filmmaker Orson Welles and [...]
November 8, 2011
Raising the curtain on the Bolshoi’s past
The new stage of the Bolshoi has become the new talk of the town, with theater insiders niggling over what it looked like Before and After its pricey surgery. Meanwhile, many have actually forgotten the old Bolshoi stage was crying out for renovation. To bring some memories back, one of Russia’s foremost fashion photographers, Vladimir [...]
October 20, 2011
Ufa: Soviet Cafeterias and IKEA Furniture
Ufa: Soviet Cafeterias and IKEA Furniture By Khristina Narizhnaya The St. Petersburg Times Published: October 19, 2011 (Issue # 1679) FOR SPT Attracting investors to Ufa is a priority for Bashkortostan, whose finances were supported by its oil-refining and mining industries before tax law changes. UFA — Ufa is best seen from the window of a landing [...]
October 18, 2011
International theater sweeps Moscow
The NET theater festival is set to open its next edition in the Russian capital, bringing to Moscow the best of international theater for the thirteenth time. The first day of the theater marathon will open with The Lower Depths, based on Maxim Gorky’s famous play and staged by prominent Lithuanian director Oskaras Koršunovas. The [...]
October 14, 2011
October 9, 2011
Vladimir Putin: Russia’s Last Tsar?
At a conference last week in Moscow of the Kremlin-backed United Russia party, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed current President Dmitry Medvedev to head the party list for the Duma (parliament) elections in December. Medvedev generously responded by proposing Putin as United Russia’s candidate for the Russian presidential election in March 2012. The cat [...]
Georgian theater legend Sturua appointed guest director at Moscow theater
The world renowned Georgian stage director, Robert Sturua, who was dismissed from the Tbilisi National Theater in August, was appointed a main guest director at Moscow’s Et Cetera Theater, art director Alexander Kalyagin said on Friday. Sturua, an outspoken critic of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, was dismissed from the Tbilisi National Theater for his “xenophobic” [...]