2026 №№ 1-2

Stage opening
Vadim Shcherbakov
The Illusion of His Presence
Irina Boykova
What Will Happen to Us Next?
Olga Yegoshina
“I Enter Poetry as if I Enter a River”
Yevgeniya Kuznetsova
Flying Is for the Young
Anatoliy Volokhov
The Home Is Lost
Danil Kazakov
Jim Within and the Treasure of Theatre Island
Anastasia Bushuk
The Master and the Sea
Festivals
Anastasia Mokshanikhina
To Listen and To Hear
The structure of action
Lizaveta Borovikova
Drafts of Time. Before the War, During the War, After the War: Socialist Realist Drama in Yevgeny Gelfond’s Productions
Anastasia Ivanova
After Troy: Theatre in Search of Peace
Music and stage
Dmitriy Izotov
At the Angels’ Call
Alexander Matusevich
Five premieres in the Anniversary Season
Main persons
Maria Khalizeva
The Soul of the Beast
A closer look
Dmitry Zenkov
Actor’s Transformation: Neurobiological, Psychophysiological and Phenomenological Aspects
Theatron
Yulia Smirnova
Empress Elizaveta’s I Journey to Malorussia (1744), or the Theatre of Power
Theatre stories
Olga Markaryan
Tragedy instead of the Tragic: The Death of Tentaigiles by Meyerhold and The Fountain of the Kneeling Youth by George Minne. Symbolist Experiences in Corporal Arts
Olga Denisova
Federal Theatre Project: Rise and Fall of State Funded Theatre in America
Ekaterina Ishimtseva
Oleg Dal and Еkaterina Yelanskaya. The Taste of Cherries and Aftertaste
Studies
Alina Arkannikova
Edward Gordon Craig as the Creator of the Stage Portraits (1897–1901)
Vladimir Kolyazin
Peter Stein’s Universities
Elizaveta Keshisheva
Podkolesin and Podkolesinism
Lubov Filatova
Songs of the Wanderers by Lin Hwai-min: At the Crossroads of Cultures
Reflections and experience
Galina Kovalenko
A Journey of a Pilgrim: From Battle of Angels to Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams
Lyudmila Bakshi
A Change of Role: Music and Noise in Contemporary Drama Theatre. From Illustration to Intonational Action
Our publications
A.Levinson: “The Soul of Russian Dance… Once Again Takes the Lead in Choreography”. Publication, introduction and commentary by S. Sboeva
Living in the Crosshairs. B. Zingerman’s Letters to A. Gladkov (1968). Publication, introduction and commentary by V. Ivanov
A Malicious Legend. L. Varpakhovskiy on V. Meyerhold’s Masquerade. Publication, introduction, and commentary by K. Stolnaya
Appendix
Annotations and authors