Alla Podluzhna

The group has marked the theater’s 160th anniversary by touring cities in Ukraine and also performing the play Hutsul Year at the Edinburgh Fringe International Festival. It was also given the status of an academic theater. The anniversary festivities ended with a large-scale artistic event — the...

The art exhibit “Stage Settings. 2008 Season,” organized by the Theater Center at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy was made up of works by Kyiv drama production designers. (The author of the project is Andrii Prykhodko and its curators are Andrii Aleksandrovych-Dochevsky, Liudmyla Nahorna, and Viktor Baryba...

It is no secret to anyone that the “time for gathering” is much more constructive than the “time of scattering.” The subject of gathering or scattering is of no importance. What is important is the goal. There used to be a fine tradition in the Kyiv theater community: actors’ skits, prototypes of...

Small naughty puppets are impatient by nature. Once every two years they visit Uzhhorod for the Interpuppet Festival, which is famous among puppeteers throughout the world. The organizers of this festive event for children — festival director Oleksandr Turianytsia and Uzhhorod’s Bavka Puppet...

Kyiv’s National Ivan Franko Theater, which ended its 87th season with the premiere of Petits Crimes Conjugaux, is on tour in Sevastopil from June 16 to 29. This past season three guest directors, Vladimir Kuchinsky, Yurii Kochevenko, and Linas Zajkauskas, staged On the Square in the Middle of...

Freedom is the primary and inseparable part of any artist’s creative activity. For Inna Panteleimonova, whose solo exhibit “120 Months” has opened at the Kyiv House of Writers, freedom is the key-word. Freedom emanates from Panteleimonova’s pictures like Bulgakov’s Margarita with her triumphant, “I...

According to tradition, City Day was marked by the Interlialka International Festival of Children’s Theaters. The cozy regional Transcarpathian puppet theater Bavka opened its doors to crowds of theatergoers, guests, and participants of the 9 th festival. Over the years Interlialka, conceived in...