Events & Calendars Mikhail Bychkov: "Making Theater in Today's Russia"

Mikhail Bychkov, widely known in the Russian performing arts community as the founder of the Voronezh Chamber Theater and the International Platonov Festival, was chosen this year as chair of the jury for the Golden Mask National Theater Prize, Russia’s equivalent of the Tony Awards, in recognition of his contributions to Russian theater. His presentation will focus on the place of Russian theater in the cultural transformation that has taken place over the past quarter of a century. Bychkov's perspective is especially valuable because he has played a leading role in shaping and developing theater in Russia’s regions, which is where the visionary theater-makers of the New Russian Drama movement have come from, and which are now viewed, in Moscow and Petersburg, as incubators of the most far-reaching cultural experimentation.