Nikolai Gogol News

The most anticipated premiere during this theatrical season is 'Shakespeare in Love' presented by Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. Lee Hall's stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film will take place on the main stage of Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre on May 11 and 12, 2018.

The acclaimed consortium Ramps on the Moon are back this Spring, with Nottingham Playhouse as this year's lead producing partner, to present their co-production of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker.

The Old Globe will present a free, one-night-only event, Barry Edelstein In Conversation with Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky, supported by the Fuson Family, on Wednesday, February 14 at 5:30 p.m. Continuing his very popular interview series, Edelstein sits down with translator/director Nelson-a great American playwright, at once a poet of the stage and an innovator of theatrical form-and Pevear and Volokhonsky-the world's foremost translators of Russian literature, and perhaps our most influential thinkers about the art of translation. They will discuss the collaborative process behind this Uncle Vanya, as well as the art of translation and bringing the classics of the stage to life for a contemporary audience.

Amid inclement weather and other January obstacles, Ilia Volok opened the Off-Broadway run of his riveting one-man show, DIARY OF A MADMAN, this past Wednesday to great excitement. His re-imagined version of Nikolai Gogol's dark piece, which won enormous praise during its West Coast tour and garnered great success during its East Coast try-out at New York's Beckman Theatre now is enjoying an Off-Broadway run at the spacious John Cullum Theatre.

Ilia Volok's stunning journey into the darkness created by Nikolai Gogol now has a home on the stage of the John Cullum Theatre as a LIMITED OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT

Ilia Volok's stunning journey into the darkness created by Nikolai Gogol now has a home on the stage of the John Cullum Theatre as a LIMITED OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT

The Old Globe's 2017 2018 Season continues with today's announcement of the complete cast and creative team for Anton Chekhov's masterpiece Uncle Vanya, which has received a Globe-commissioned world premiere translation from Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, andLarissa Volokhonsky. Richard Nelson (Illyria, The Gabriel Plays, Tony Award winner for Best Book of a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead) also directs. Uncle Vanya will run February 10 March 11, 2018 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets start at $30.00 and are on sale to the general public now. Previews run February 10 14. Opening night is Thursday, February 15 at 8:00 p.m.

Ilia Volok's stunning journey into the darkness created by Nikolai Gogol now has a home on the stage of the John Cullum Theatre as a LIMITED OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT

In 2018, Nottingham Playhouse will become the lead producing partner for the acclaimed Ramps on The Moon co-production of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Following their critically praised staging of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector and the award winning recent production of The Who's Tommy, this is the third co-production with Ramps on The Moon, a consortium of seven theatre companies dedicated to putting D/deaf and disabled artists and audiences at the centre of their work.

As chilly weather settles into Minnesota, local playwright Kira Obolensky has a wintery new musical to share. 'The Overcoat: A Low-Fi Musical' is the first play in the Playwrights' Center's 2017-18 Ruth Easton New Play Series, a long-running series offering Playwrights' Center Core Writers 20 hours of workshop time to develop a new play and giving theater fans a chance to see free public readings of the plays in progress.

Parson's Nose Theater (PNT), the acclaimed classical comedy theater company, will close their production of Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Government Inspector this weekend. The play marks their first Full Production in the company's new permanent home in Pasadena, The Parson's Nose Abbey.

Parson's Nose Theater (PNT), the acclaimed classical comedy theater company, will close their production of Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Government Inspector this weekend. The play marks their first Full Production in the company's new permanent home in Pasadena, The Parson's Nose Abbey.

There's a certain hilarious show leaving Seattle and leaving a void in the comedy that we all desperately need in these tumultuous times. But luckily for us Seattle Shakespeare Company has just the thing to fill that void with their uproarious Russian farce The Government Inspector . A production with some very over-the-top and almost cartoonish sensibilities that truly earns the moniker farce .

Ilia Volok's reimagined, one-man show based on Nikolai Gogol's dark piece, 'DIARY OF A MADMAN,' hits the New York stage next week for a limited engagement following a critically acclaimed run in Los Angeles.

Ilia Volok's reimagined, one-man show based on Nikolai Gogol's dark piece, 'DIARY OF A MADMAN,' hits the New York stage next week for a limited engagement following a critically acclaimed run in Los Angeles.

Parson's Nose Theater (PNT), the acclaimed classical comedy theater company, will begin their 2017-18 season this weekend with the opening of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector. The play marks the first Full Production in the company's new permanent home in Pasadena, The Parson's Nose Abbey.

When today's headlines about Russia involve potential political meddling, corruption, and cover-up, it's nice to know that some things don't change and that you can laugh about them.

Parson's Nose Theater (PNT), the acclaimed classical comedy theater company, will open their 2017-18 season with a world premiere, 75 minute adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector.

The 2017 International Tmu-na Festival will be 16 days (October 23 - November 7, 2017) of works in the fields of theatre, performance, dance, music and plastic arts and its theme is 'Encounters'.