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 child ...

Moscow Theater Standoff Ends. By Sue Chan. October 26, 2002 / 7:55 AM EDT / CBS A hostage crisis in Moscow ... were being brought out from the building with their hands bound.

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 ...

Ten years ago, Russia and the world held their breath as special forces surrounded a Moscow theatre where nearly 1,000 people were being held hostage. The siege ended in tragedy, and still ...

Leningrad cheered Porgy and Bess (TIME, Jan. 9), but nobody could predict how Moscow, with its love of grand opera in the grand manner, would take to the jazzy American folk opera about ...

To U. S. theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything ...

On October 23, 2002 -- as the second Chechen war was raging in southern Russia -- armed militants burst into Moscow's Dubrovka theatre during a sold-out performance of the musical "Nord-Ost." ...

In Russia, ballet fans brave sub-zero temperatures for a chance to see The Nutcracker at Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theatre. In his recent year and address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir ...