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There are 17 item(s) tagged with the keyword "theater".

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1. A Theater Director's Letter from Prison

While Zhenya Berkovich's trial keeps getting postponed, her two adopted daughters wait for her at home. 

Tags: theater, dissent
2. Words from Behind the Glass Box

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

Tags: dissent, women, art, theater, political prisoners
3. Closing Curtains for a Cancelled Show

A theater canceled a show after the playwright was convicted for "spreading fake news about the Russian army."

Tags: war in ukraine, censorship, dissent, theater, Irkutsk
4. Detained for Criticising ISIS

A director and a playwright were arrested for "promoting terrorism," for a play that criticizes how the Islamic State recruited Russian women.
 

Tags: Islamic State, war in ukraine, women, dissent, theater
5. 20 Years for Rehearsing a Play?

A young playwright in Tolyatti is threatened with 20 years in jail for rehearsing a play with his students.

Tags: tolyatti, children, censorship, theater
6. Where Are the Actors?

The Ministry of Culture began inspecting Moscow theaters after a famous actor made an obliquely anti-war statement in an interview.

Tags: war in ukraine, dissent, ministry of culture, Moscow, theater
7. A Theatrical Ousting

Moscow is replacing the anti-war directors of the Gogol Center.

Tags: culture, dissent, moscow, theater
8. A Failure to Perform

The International Platonov Arts Festival in Voronezh, has been canceled due to current political conditions.

Tags: war in ukraine, international, performance art, festival, theater, music, arts
9. Golden Mask of Support

Ksenia Sorokina gives her Golden Mask award to jailed anti-war activist Sasha Skochilenko.

Tags: awards, theater, art, war in ukraine
10. All the Village Is a Stage

Performance art, adventure, and psychedelia in a Russian village. What more could you want?

Tags: towns, village life, art, theater

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