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A matriarch watches her family unravel in Sergei Zhenovach’s adaptation of a 19th-century story. Sergei Zhenovach has an affinity for sprawling tales about constellations of … Continue reading A Dynasty in Distress

Award-winning director Sergei Zhenovach puts on a new production of “The Gamblers,” Nikolai Gogol’s tale of cardsharps in a provincial town. The buzz around Sergei … Continue reading Wheeling and Dealing

The Studio of Theatrical Arts, headed by Sergei Zhenovatch opened in Moscow in 2005. The company consists of Zhenovastvh’s graduate students at the Russian Theatre … Continue reading The Theatre Studios: a Good Genealogy

Everything is exactly what you would expect from Sergei Zhenovach. Low-key, heartfelt, sensitively thought-out and beautifully executed. This, and much more, can be said about … Continue reading A New Look at Old Life

There is much to be said about a theater finding the place it belongs, as well as a space being put into the hands of … Continue reading Platonov’s ‘The River Potudan’ Brought to Life

If I were pressed to boil down the essence of Sergei Zhenovach’s Studio of Theatrical Art to a single quality, it would probably be the … Continue reading Chekhov ‘Notebooks’ Is Just a Walk in the Park

Just when you want to say “Now, I’ve seen it all,” another show at the Ringling International Arts Festival comes along to suggest you never … Continue reading RIAF: Festival shows offer bounty of unexpected surprises

If your theatrical tastes run to cheerful musical revivals providing restorative food and drink at comfortably spaced intermissions, “The Boys” isn’t for you. This imported … Continue reading “The Boys” Performed at the Ringling International Arts Festival

On a bare black stage with just a pile of stones at the front edge, a troupe of Russian actors from the Theatre Art Studio … Continue reading Hope shines in Russian darkness

In America, the works of Dostoevsky might be considered a major challenge. But in Russia, his books are as common among students as “The Great … Continue reading Dostoevsky, a new way

It is often said that in order to understand a place, one should visit it. In the absence of the means necessary, the next best … Continue reading The Boys in NYC

“Everything in the world should happen slowly. Slowly and wrong, so that no one gets a big head.” So says Venichka, the unlikely hero of … Continue reading Bottles, Fun and Beauty in ‘Moscow-Petushki’