EVENTS

* Performances start at 7pm unless otherwise stated. All performances, except operas and concerts, are in Russian; operas and concerts in original language unless otherwise stated. Events courtesy of the Institute for Cultural Programs.


TUESDAY, APRIL 25

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) S Maugham's "The Faithful Wife."

BALTIISKY DOM Danish theater "Kantibile-2" performs "Snipers."

BOLSHOY DRAMA Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

LITEINY (6pm) Finnish theater

MALY DRAMA A Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard."

MARIINSKY Puccini's "Tosca."

OTKRYTY M Gubach's "His Majesty's Adjutant."

SHOSTAKOVICH Russian National Symphony Orchestra performs.

SMALL HALL "Divertisement" ensemble.


WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) "Can I Hope...?"

BALTIISKY DOM The New Experimental Drama Theater of Magnitogorsk performs "The Seagull."

BOLSHOY DRAMA "Meddler in the Nobility."

LITEINY (6pm) Ballet "Kukina."

MOLODYOZHNY A Shipenko's "Lavochkin-5 in the Air."

MARIINSKY Adan's "Giselle."

MUSSORGSKY Verdi's "La Traviata."

OTKRYTY V Constantinov and B Ratser's "Gusar of the KGB."

RAIN D Priestley's "Dangerous Turn."

SHOSTAKOVICH The Philharmonic Orchestra performs Beethoven.

SMALL HALL "Hutchins Octet" ensemble performs.


THURSDAY, APRIL 27

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) O Danilov's "Planet of Love."

BALTIISKY DOM The Ne Ryzhsky Theater of Riga, Latvia performs "The Marquis de Sade."

BOLSHOY DRAMA "Guile and Love."

LITEINY (6pm) Ballet "Kukina."

MARIINSKY Puccini's "Madam Butterfly" (Cho-Cho-San).

MOLODYOZHNY A Griboyedov, N Khmelnitsky and A Shakhovskoy's "My Family, or the Married Fiancee."

MUSSORGSKY "Swan Lake."

OTKRYTY K Goldoni's "Samodury."

RAIN D Priestley's "Dangerous Turn."

SMALL HALL Vocals evening with O Borodina.


FRIDAY, APRIL 28

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) M Bulgakov's "Zoikina Apartment."

ALEXANDRINSKY (noon) Meeting of veterans from the Great Patriotic War. (7pm) Concert and show related to the 50-year anniversary of the end of WWII.

BOLSHOY DRAMA Shakespeare's "Macbeth."

LITEINY (6pm) "The Kremlin Bells."

MARIINSKY Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty."

MOLODYOZHNY A Ostrovsky's "The Thunderstorm."

MUSSORGSKY Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tsar's Bride."

OTKRYTY T Stoppard's "You, and Only You."

SHOSTAKOVICH Musicians from the Philharmonic orchestra perform Wagner, Mozart and Dvorak.


SATURDAY, APRIL 29

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) E Schwartz' "The Shadow."

ALEXANDRINSKY (6pm) Concert and show related to the 50-year anniversary of the end of WWII.

BALTIISKY DOM The "Volksbune" theater of Berlin performs.

BOLSHOY DRAMA "Family Portrait with a Stranger."

LITEINY (6pm) K Gozzi's "The Raven."

MALY DRAMA (1:30pm) B Koltes' "Roberto Zukko."

MARIINSKY Verdi's "La Traviata."

MUSSORGSKY Levenschold's "Sylphida."

PUPPET THEATER (11:30am, 2pm) T Herschberg and P Schenhoff's "Visiting the Hippopotamus."

RAIN "The Chess Game."

SHOSTAKOVICH Musicians from the Philharmonic orchestra perform Wagner, Mozart and Dvorak.

SMALL HALL Guitar evening with M Radyukevich.

SMOLNY (6:30pm) Russian table songs.


SUNDAY, APRIL 30

AKIMOVA (7:30pm) Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

ALEXANDRINSKY (6pm) M Lermontov's "Monsieur George. Russian Drama."

BALTIISKY DOM The "Volksbune" theater of Berlin performs.

BOLSHOY DRAMA "Meddler in the Nobility."

LITEINY (6pm) D Lensky's "A Hydrangea in Paris!"

MALY DRAMA (1:30 and 7pm) B Koltes' "Roberto Zukko."

MARIINSKY (11:30am) Stravinsky's "Solovei" and "The Fire-Bird." (7pm) Levenschold's "Sylphida."


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