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Review: THE GIFT, Citizen's Theatre


by Natalie O'Donoghue - December 13, 2025

A mountain of discarded wrapping. A lonely child with an active imagination. It’s often the cardboard boxes, not the gifts inside that are the most fun. Is the true gift the joy that can come from the imagination?...

Review: SHREK is a Triumph of Filipino Artistry, Skill, and Theatrical Vision


by Gilbert Kim Sancha - December 13, 2025

Newport Performing Arts Theater has been transformed into a fantastical swamp teeming with color, laughter, and heart....

Review: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET at Connecticut Theatre Company


by Jared Reynolds - December 12, 2025

Cozy, cute, and full of Christmas cheer. That’s what you get with Miracle on 34th Street. That was abound and aplenty at the Connecticut Theatre Company’s production of the motion picture classic! CTC’s production of Miracle on 34th Street kept the joy of the season at the heart of this production, ...

Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS at Olney Theatre


by Doug Poms - December 12, 2025

What did our critic think of A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS at Olney Theatre? Olney Theatre continues its lovely tradition of its annual rendering of Paul Morella’s one-person adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas.” Now in its 16th year, this r...

Review: ELF at The 5th Avenue Theatre


by Shelley Dean - December 12, 2025

The movie Elf is one of those films that sticks with you throughout your life; you remember the spaghetti, the syrup, and the unrivaled holiday cheer from the unique story. It’s only natural that a story full of this much nostalgia takes on a new life that honors its legacy. Enter Elf: The Musical. ...

Review: EVITA TOO, Southbank Centre


by Katie Kirkpatrick - December 13, 2025

Rollerskates, Elaine Page, ducks, puppets, corpses, puppet corpses, and a DJing Andrew Lloyd Webber. Evita Too is worlds away from the Jamie Lloyd hit that swept London this summer, but it has just as much to say, if not more....

Review: QUEEN CITY ARTS FESTIVAL, INC. at Mint Museum


by Vickie Evans - December 12, 2025

The event was a strong representation of the transformative power of the arts and the importance of creating platforms for Black playwrights and performers....

Review: IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS at Theatre Under The Stars


by Brett Cullum - December 12, 2025

Going into Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS, you already know what you are in for. Most people have seen the film starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, released in 1954....

Review: MOZART’S THE MAGIC FLUTE at The Metropolitan Opera


by Gabby Ziccarelli - December 12, 2025

As the houselights dim at the Metropolitan Opera, the Julie Taymor–directed The Magic Flute transports viewers into a buoyant and kaleidoscopic fairy-tale dreamworld. This abridged, English-language production is a visually sumptuous version of Mozart's singspiel bathed in bold primary colors, shape...

Review: LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL at Tesseract Theatre Company is a Peppy High Energy Production


by James Lindhorst - December 12, 2025

Director Will Bonfiglio, Music Director Larry D. Pry, Choreogrpaher Jo Palisoc, and the entire company deserve a lot of credit for their all in committed, peppy, and high-spirited production of a marginal show that is staged as a pet project far too often. There are thousands of musical theater asse...

Past Shows

Le Nozze di Figaro
Le Nozze di Figaro
11/5 - 12/10/2015


I had the honour of being the first to conduct Le nozze di Figaro in Ekaterinburg. I love this Mozart's opera very much. Mozart is ...

THE PREMIERE ONE-ACT BALLETS
6/28 - 6/30/2013

THE TSAR’S BRIDE
4/13 - 6/20/2013


It is encouraging that cooperation of the two major theatres, the Bolshoi Theatre and the Ekaterinburg Opera Theatre continues to thrive. Creative contacts between our ...

XIX / XX / XXI
4/23 - 6/19/2013


"Conservatory" choreographed by the Danish choreographer August Burnonvilâ – classic masterpiece, an example of strict academism. It is one of the oldest ballets, dating from ...

Otello
5/16 - 6/18/2013


Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre, 16, 17 and 18 May 19, 2013 year will present a new creative project – Staging Othello Verdi on the ...

La Sylphide
4/30 - 6/16/2013


James, a young suitor Effie, dozing by the fire. A Sylph. She flits around James and wakes him up with a kiss. James wants to ...

DEKA DANCE
6/14 - 6/15/2013

Madama Butterfly
4/4 - 6/9/2013


The new production has made a great impression with its artistic refinement and a striking integrity of all its musical and theatrical components. Saturated with ...

Swan Lake
4/19 - 6/8/2013


"Swan Lake" is one of the most fantastic and perfect creations of world art, perhaps the most famous ballet in the world. His music and ...

PrinceIgor
5/21 - 6/7/2013


On the stage of the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Prince Igor first appeared in 1912. Staging, which opened the 100-th theatrical season, became the eleventh ...

AMORE BUFFO
4/5 - 6/6/2013


Yekaterinburg State academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet is a ballet premiere 100-th theatrical season "Buffo" to "Amore Love drink» g. Donizetti. Choreographer-Director Vyacheslav Samodurov ...

Boris Godunov
5/23 - 6/5/2013


"Boris Godunov" is the product of continued us exciting shooting experience, reflect. Opera about the crisis — and it's in the story. Talking about the ...

Giselle
4/28 - 6/4/2013


At the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre Lyudmila Semenyaka, an outstanding ballerina and couch from the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, made a new production of ...

LaTraviata
4/25 - 6/1/2013


The plot of this sad history belongs to Alexander Dumas-the son, to the offending participant two productions of La Traviata (La traviata – fallen) Marguerite ...


That US producers caught in the Ballet «Romeo and Juliet»? First and foremost, top-notch music Sergei Prokofiev and dramatic human tragedy of Shakespeare. In this ...

Don Giovanni
4/16 - 5/28/2013


The spectacle put international "team", consisting of the artist from the UK Simon Lima Holdsworth, Director of Germany Matthias von Štegmann and conductor – Italian ...

Le Nozze di Figaro
4/18 - 5/25/2013


I had the honour of being the first to conduct Le nozze di Figaro in Ekaterinburg. I love this Mozart's opera very much. Mozart is ...


n the ballet, and generally in art, we are attracted to create samples of psychological and deep. Show dance spiritual manhood means entering into life ...


Sancho Panza deeply saddened by the loss of his master – a noble Knight, known as Don Quixote. Seeing the Gore faithful servants, people turn ...


Approaching the House closer, they saw it all from bread and cakes is built, yes Windows ­ there were of pure sugar. "We are in ...

XIX/XX/XXI
3/1 - 3/3/2013

TOSCA
2/22


Action I In the early morning, when the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome still closed to worshippers, it secretly sneaks fled jail political ...

GISELLE
12/19 - 2/21/2013


First action A small, quiet village of sunshine. Here are simple, unsophisticated people. A young peasant girl Giselle enjoys the Sun, blue sky, the birds ...

COUNT ORY
1/22 - 2/20/2013


Its plot is based on an old Picardy ballad. The action takes place in the 13th century in Touraine. Speech at the Opera is a ...

Romeo and Juliet
11/9 - 2/17/2013


That US producers caught in the ballet "Romeo and Juliet"? First, first-class music Sergei Prokofiev and dramaturgical main tragedies of Shakespeare. In this composition, in ...

THE TSAR'S BRIDE
1/17 - 2/14/2013


It is encouraging that the cooperation of two major theatres, the Bolshoi Theatre and the Ekaterinburg Opera Theatre continues to thrive. Creative contacts between our ...

CORSAIR
2/13


At the Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) «Le CORSAIRE» first time scene was delivered December 19, 1926 GODA (Director-choreographer-M.f. Moiseyev, conductor-producer – N.b. Grubin, art director – ...

THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
12/20 - 2/12/2013


Carlo Gozzi tale writer, the love for three oranges (L'amore delle tre melarance, 1761) in the spirit of the Italian Commedia dell'arte, loved saying: "remember ...

BORIS GODUNOV
12/9 - 2/9/2013


-Boris Godunov-a brilliant piece of writing, the flesh of the flesh, the blood from the blood of Russian history. A hero in the Mussorgsky, like ...

CREATION OF THE WORLD
1/9 - 2/8/2013


First action In the first chapter we fall into the darkness of primordial chaos, where angels dwell, iznyvaû?ij from idleness Devil and, naturally, the creator ...

MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
12/13 - 2/7/2013

La Sylphide
12/8 - 2/6/2013


James, the groom young Effie, dozing by the fire. A Sylph. She flits around James and wakes him up with a kiss. James wants to ...


FIRST ACTION Broker Goro shows Lieutenant u.s. Army Pinkertonu House, where he intends to settle his future wife Butterfly. Pinkerton distracted and impatient. He has ...

KATE AND PRINCE OF SIAM
12/27 - 2/2/2013


The choice of the name for the new staging was not accidental. Ekaterinburg Opera and ballet have strong business and friendly relations with Thailand. Our ...

THE QUEEN OF SPADES
11/8 - 2/2/2013


One of the most perfect operas world classical "Spades", like every true masterpiece, its not, and none of the interpretations of the Opera could not ...

LA BOHÈME
11/10 - 1/31/2013

Stone Flower
11/11 - 1/25/2013


Many years ago on the stage of our theatre passengers first saw characters from tales of Bazhov. Then, in 1944, in the Ballet of the ...

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
1/24 - 1/25/2013


His most famous opera, Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) wrote twenty days is quite usual term for the time, though today it seems incredible. The young composer ...

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
11/14 - 1/23/2013


First action Sultan's Palace is decorated with silks and carpets, a fountain with a water body, on which the four Lions of pure gold spew ...

LA BAYADERE
12/21 - 1/20/2013


— Before you start working on a performance at the theatre was a casting for a consignment of solor. What it showed? And it was ...

LOVE AND DEATH
12/12 - 1/18/2013


Every nation has the one book, getting started, which defined the richness of native Words, future literary world. For Azerbaijani Oguz, however, as the remaining ...

AMORE BUFFO
1/13 - 1/16/2013


Yekaterinburg State academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet is a ballet premiere 100-th theatrical season – "Amore" of "Loving Buffo the drink" by Donizetti. Choreographer-Director: ...

DON QUIXOTE
11/7 - 1/11/2013


Sancho Panza is deeply saddened by the loss of his master – a noble Knight, known as Don Quixote. Seeing mount faithful servants, people turn ...

SWAN LAKE
12/14 - 1/11/2013


"Swan Lake" is one of the most fantastic and perfect creations of world art, perhaps the most famous ballet in the world. His music and ...

PRINCE IGOR
12/15 - 1/10/2013


See Prince Igor only noble Warrior, caring only to defend Russia and acting purely out of good intentions is a bit not stick with what ...

HANSEL AND GRETEL
12/27 - 1/8/2013


Ekaterinburg Opera Theater invites you to the magic country, where live music heroes of fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. "Hansel and Gretel" is the ...

SNOW MAIDEN
11/6 - 1/8/2013


Opera "Snegurochka" with her poetry of pagan cult, the epic power of the merging of man and nature, divinely-ravishing anthem to beauty and love Nikolay ...

The Nutcracker
12/30 - 1/7/2013


The last of the three Tchaikovsky ballets, a very special destiny. Unlike the "Swan Lake" and "sleeping beauties" of "the Nutcracker" in the 19th century ...

LA TRAVIATA
12/29 - 1/5/2013


The plot of this sad history belongs to Alexander Dumas son, wrote two works of La Traviata (La traviata – fallen) Marguerite Gautier, with the ...

MOROZKO
12/28 - 1/3/2013


First action Picture of the first "Family" Early morning in a peasant hut. Three beetle pokusyvaût old man and he falls asleep with the oven. ...

CHRISTMAS CONCERT
12/22 - 12/23/2012


The sounds of the Holiday season are made even more beautiful when they are sung by the world-renowned Morgan State University Choir. Under the direction ...

DON JUAN
12/18

CIPOLLINO
12/16


Act I There is a square of a fairy-tale town. Standing in the square are what seem to be baskets of vegetables and boxes of ...

SCHEHERAZADE
11/23


Sultan Shahriyar, believing in the cunning women, every day he took a wife, young girl, and the next day executed her. This continued for three ...

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