Igor Golyak News

There’s a lot to mourn this year, and an  uncertain path ahead of us to rebuild. As we round out this new year, it’s time to decide: what  lessons will we take with us into the future of theatre production? 

Arlekin Players Theatre, co-producer Sara Stackhouse of BroadBand Collaborative, and presenting partner Cherry Orchard Festival in NY, will present an evening dedicated to Armenia, featuring Hayk Demoyan, Director of the Aurora Prize and former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia has shared a series of updates to their previously announced 2020/21 season. To ensure that artists, staff, crew, and audience members are safe during the COVID-19 health crisis, the theater has altered several key features of their upcoming season, including an exciting change to HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING.

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) and Cherry Orchard Festival co-present Arlekin Players Theatre performing live online as part of BAC's Fall 2020 season of digital presentations. Free registration is required at bacnyc.org for State vs. Natasha Banina, which will be performed live on ZOOM October 12 and 14 at 8PM EDT.

Baryshnikov Arts Center, celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2020, announces a Fall season centered on its core mission to support artists across disciplines in the development of new work. BAC's launch of a commissioning program and series of online presentationsa?"all designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and BAC's temporary building closurea?"will provide opportunities for artists and audiences from around the globe to connect virtually at BACNYC.ORG beginning October 1, 2020 and continuing into 2021.

Baryshnikov Arts Center, celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2020, announces a Fall season centered on its core mission to support artists across disciplines in the development of new work.

Shakespeare & Company and the Cherry Orchard Festival will co-present the Arlekin Players Theatrea??s production State vs. Natasha Banina, a live online interactive art experiment directed by Igor Golyak, 2020 Elliot Norton Award-winner for Best Director, and featuring Darya Denisova, winner of the 2020 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress, Small or Fringe Theater, for her performance in Arlekina??s The Stone. 

ArtsEmerson and the Cherry Orchard Festival will co-present the Arlekin Players Theatre production State vs. Natasha Banina, a live online interactive art experiment directed by Igor Golvak and starring Darya Denisova.

The Cherry Orchard Festival will present two more opportunities to view Boston's Arlekin Players Theatre's production of State vs. Natasha Banina, a newly-conceived live Zoom interactive theater art experiment, directed by Igor Golyak and featuring Arlekin company's leading actress and 2020 Elliot Norton Award winner Darya Denisova.

The Cherry Orchard Festival presents Boston's Arlekin Players Theatre with State vs. Natasha Banina, a newly-conceived live Zoom interactive theater art experiment

Fresh on the heels of a solid showing at the virtual 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards, where the Boston Theater Critics Association recognized their achievements during the abbreviated 2019-2020 season with ten nominations and four wins, the Arlekin Players Theatre boldly launches a new production in cyberspace. STATE VS NATASHA BANINA is a live, interactive theater art experiment which manages to engage the audience as a collective and unified body, thanks to creative direction by Igor Golyak and Darya Denisova's uncanny portrayal of the adolescent title character.

Among tonight's winners was the pre-Broadway engagement of Six the Musical. which took home Outstanding Visiting Production for its run at ART, while David Byrne's American Utopia was honored with Best Visiting Performance, Musical.

Two dozen nominations of outstanding actors, directors, designers and ensembles were announced today by The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) for the 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards.

For playwright Max Posner, sitting down to write The Treasurer must have been a feat of de-centering oneself. The narrative takes a dusky, balmy look back at the relationship between his father and his grandmother, a wealthy, New York socialite who lived with dementia in her old age. While the story is, in a way, indirectly autobiographical, it offers few mentions of the playwright himself, uplifting the perspective of the protagonist, his father. In shouldering the role, Ken Cheeseman seems to push Posner's language further into the periphery. His ambulatory addresses to the audience and stoic musings seem to be conceived of in real time, not memorized from a written source. However, Lyric Stage Company's production of The Treasurer is not the standard a?oeI hate my fathera?? solo performance you are likely to see at any undergraduate institution's annual student festival. In fact, though the text is dominated by Cheeseman's character, the production is upheld just as much by him as it is by Cheryl McMahon in the role of Ida, his mother.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (ASP) continues its 16th season with The Merchant of Venice, performed at the Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Performances run March 11-April 5, 2020.

a?oeUnlike any THE SEAGULL you can ever imaginea?? sums up the Arlekin Players Theatre production of Anton Chekhov's classic. An original adaptation with script translation by Ryan McKittrick, Julia Smeliansky, and Laurence Senelick, and directed by Igor Golyak, it features imaginative staging and the work of a stellar ensemble. Performance highlights provided by Anne Gottlieb, Nael Nacer, Eliott Purcell, and Irina Bordian.

Arlekin Players Theatre presents Anton Chekhov's tragic comedy The Seagull , featuring members of the Arlekin company performing alongside four of Boston's favorite professional actors Anne Gottlieb** (Irina Arkadina), Dev Luthra (Pyotr Sorin), Nael Nacer** (Boris Trigorin), and Eliott Purcell** (Konstantin Treplev), in a newly adapted version of the play conceived  and directed by Igor Golyak. The new script translation is by Ryan McKittrick and Julia Smeliansky with Chekhov's letters used in the script translated by Laurence Senelick. 

Arlekin Players Theatre presents The Stone, by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg. Directed by Arlekin Players Theatre's Artistic Director Igor Golyak (Elliot Norton Award-winning Diary of a Mad Man), the production will run May 17th through June 9th in Studio 368 at Hillside Avenue, Needham, MA. These performances are in Russian with audio-translation in English. The show will return September 13th - 22nd in English. Tickets range from $45 - $65. For more information and tickets, visit arlekinplayers.com or call 617-942-9822. In 1935, a young couple purchases a house from a Jewish family in Dresden, Germany. The play follows the lives of the house's residents, who must grapple with their own identity while experiencing the reverberations created by 60 years of German history. As the house is passed from owner to owner, and generation to generation, the secrets buried in the garden and within the walls reveal themselves.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (ASP) announces its 2019-2020 season today, continuing to build on its legacy of producing intimate and relevant Shakespeare productions as well as new plays that examine contemporary issues of social justice.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane comes to life on stage December 7 - March 3  NEEDHAM, MA:  Arlekin Players Theatre is happy to announce its newest production, an original adaptation based on the book by the award-winning author Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.