Vadym Dyshkant

At the Chamber stage of Ivan Franko National Theater, Bretislav Rychlik directed one of the last pieces written by his compatriot Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) – a renowned playwright, dissident, human rights activist, statesman, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the...

Let us recall that this forum, invariably of great interest to the local audience, has been conducted for a decade by the British Council in Ukraine and Arthouse Traffic Company.Oliver Hirschbiegel’s latest directing work, Diana, opened the festival and prompted a mixed reaction on the public...

The 43rd Molodist will get younger in the sense that the Program of Children’s Cinema will enter the festival’s competition this year. Although creators of films for children do not need to be young, the jury will include only children. It is envisaged that the screenings of children...

Present celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavski, founder of the Moscow Art Theater and the whole trend of “psychological theater,” made me think of the name of a polemical article “Poor Stanislavski!” written nearly 50 years ago by Anatoly Efros...

Too rarely do famous directors come to Kyiv. The last time the Vilnius Theater Meno Fortas came to our capital was over five years ago (with Hamlet and Othello). This time the Lithuanians are bringing one of Eimuntas Nekrosius’s latest works, The Idiot, to be staged in the Franko...

Moscow – First staged in the late 2008 at the Theater of Nations (the descendant of the Theater of the Friendship of Nations, the USSR celebrity of the 1980s), Shukshin’s Short Stories have since visited many international theater forums. Their tours are schedules a whole year in advance, and...

For the past 10 years Andrii Zholdak has been presenting the achievements of the modern Ukrainian stage at the New European Theater (NET) festival in Moscow. A few years ago he brought his Kharkiv productions to the Russian capital (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Hamlet), and last year...

Sovremennik is now on what could be called a jubilee tour of Kyiv: once a Moscow cult theater, it celebrated its 50 th anniversary last spring. In Soviet times, theaters could tour for up to a month to mark such an occasion. Today financial and artistic directors can only dream of this. After...

The Ivan Franko National Drama Theater recently premiered Solo Mea, a production staged by Oleksandr Bilozub and based on his vision of the life and work of Solomiya Krushelnytska. According to the program booklet, the new production is “a poetic tribute to the talent of the great Ukrainian singer...

A roundtable entitled “Politics in the Sphere of Culture: Partnership between the Creative Community and the State,” and organized by an initiative group of Kyiv-based cultural activists, was recently held at the Ukrinform premises on the memorable day when the new government was formed in the...