Alla Pidluzhna

The event, which the theatrical community of Ukraine has been waiting for more than two decades, has finally happened! From now on, the Ukrainian artistic community will be even more cohesive, as a new platform for a shared theatrical game has emerged, on which theatrical collectives from around...

Many beginner filmmakers embark on a career by making a short film. A short is the most constructive opportunity to express oneself, test the acquired skills, begin to hone one’s mastery, and search for one’s own style. Some believe that the short is a steppingstone for big cinema,...

Viacheslav Dovzhenko knows very well what popularity is. His participation in numerous TV series, films, and performances in Kyiv theaters has made him famous with many Ukrainians. However, the audience interest became truly overwhelming after he starred in the film Cyborgs, which is now being...

Set design is the anticipation of theater, like a visual manifest of an idea, a clean white sheet of paper where the life of the future play begins. Such idea can be traced in the decoration of the exhibit “Triennial of set design named after Danylo Lider” which will be open for...

It would come as no surprise for anyone to hear, for example, that the same play by William Shakespeare or Anton Chekhov is staged at more than one theater of some city on the same night. For contemporary authors, though, such a situation is unlikely. Therefore, Ukrainian playwright Tetiana...

In Belarus Andrei Kureichyk is called “a man with a hyperactive civic stand.” A playwright and screenwriter, he is not only active in his response to social processes, but is also very productive in his creative work, writes a lot, and realizes his works into theater or movie production...

We met at the Second International Theater Festival “Vasara,” which is currently held at Lithuanian Druskininkai. Yurii Rost is not just a famous photographer and journalist, but also a poet and a writer. Within the framework of the festival the well-known master presented his new book...

Maria Festival is dedicated to the memory of the legend of the Ukrainian theater Maria Zankovetska and the career of Larysa Kadyrova is forever linked with the fate of the master of stage in the annals of the history of the national theater. For 22 years Kadyrova played the role of this...

Name of the Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian writer and artist Bruno Schulz is yet not well known by the public. Schulz was born in Drohobych in 1892, when this territory was still a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Only the professionals in the sphere of art are familiar with his graphics and...

Back in 1920 this theater began its life with the performance Sin, staged based on Vynnychenko’s play. The period of renewed interest in psychological and intellectual drama of the Ukrainian classic was observed in the Ivan Franko Theater in the 1990s. Theatergoers remember the extraordinary...