Giggles and whispers ripple like a breeze through the darkened auditorium. The curtain slides open, and the inevitable scolding voice cries out - the babushka, self-appointed custodian of ...

MOSCOW — In the early 2000s, Mikhail Ugarov and Elena Gremina, playwrights who were husband and wife, were lamenting that Russian theater had grown ossified and distant from society’s problems a ...

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee has ordered a probe into complaints that a production by the prominent Moscow theater Sovremennik (Contemporary) was insulting to World War II veterans.

President Donald Trump participates in a Roundtable at the White House. by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Person dies after jumping from moving tour bus on I-5, troopers investigating ...

The head of a state-run theater in Moscow called Putin a "killer" as she announced her resignation. "You can't work for a killer and get paid by him," Elena Kovalskaya, who runs the Meyerhold Center ...

The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow has again surprised the art world. The company on Tuesday fired longtime general director Anatoly Iksanov a year before his contract would have expired, The Times’ Sergei ...

Flowers outside the Dubrovka center at a previous memorial event (RFE/RL) October 26, 2006 -- Commemorations were held in Moscow today to remember the victims of a deadly theater hostage taking four ...