Theater

Thursday, November 8th

New Bridegrooms (Zhenikhi): Nikita Grinshpun stages Issak Dunayevsky’s 1926 musical comedy set in the NEP era. Theater of Nations. 7 p.m.

Doctor Zhivago: Yury Lyubimov’s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel about a poet’s ill-fated efforts to avoid involvement in the Russian Revolution. Music by Alfred Schnittke. Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.

Eeva-Maria: Loreta Vaskova’s staging for bass guitar, drums and solo actress tells the story of a 20th-century woman. Based on Paavo Rintala’s play of the same name. Meyerhold Center. 8 p.m.

Fahrenheit 451 (451 po Farengeitu): Adolf Shapiro’s stage version of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi novel. Et Cetera Theater. 7 p.m.

New Funds From Inheritance (Sredstva ot Nasledstva): Yury Ryashentsev and Galina Polidi’s play on the themes of Jean-Francois Regnard’s comedy “The Sole Heir” that focuses on a crafty servant. Satire Theater. 7 p.m.

Money (Dengi): Konstantin Raikin stages a crime comedy based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s play about cynicism, love and greed. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.

MT Pick One Absolutely Happy Village (Odna Absolyutno Schastlivaya Derevnya): Pyotr Fomenko’s beautiful dramatization of Boris Vakhtin’s 1965 novella. Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.

Stalingrad: a beautiful and poetic puppet portrayal of one of the most brutal battles of World War II. Production of Rezo Gabriadze’s Theater of Marionettes. Studio of Theatrical Art. 7 p.m.

The Bear (Medved): Iosif Raikhelgauz stages Dmitry Bykov’s political satire. Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m.

MT Pick The Gentleman: Yevgeny Kamenkovich stages Alexander Sumbatov-Yuzhin’s play about an ambitious, vain young man making his way in the world. Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.

New The Gift (Dar): Yevgeny Kamenkovich’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s final Russian novel. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 7 p.m.

The Girl and the Revolutionary (Devushka i Revolyutsioner): Igor Simonov’s play centers on a romantic encounter of Stalin and his future wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Vladimir Ageyev’s staging. Praktika. 8 p.m.

The Talented and the Dead (Talanty i Pokoiniki): Yevgeny Pisarev directs David Ives’ dramatization of Mark Twain’s story “Is He Dead?” about French painter Jean-Francois Millet who stages his death in order to increase the value of his paintings. Pushkin Theater. 7 p.m.

Va Bank: Mark Zakharov’s show based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s comedy “The Final Sacrifice.” Lenkom Theater. 7 p.m.

Festival Young Italy: Antigone No. 3. I’m Leaving: a staging on the themes of Sophocles’ tragedy. Performed in Italian. Theater Center Na Strastnom. 7 p.m.

New Zoika’s Apartment (Zoikina Kvartira): Kirill Serebrennikov directs Mikhail Bulgakov’s play about a wild crew of petty thieves, crooks and shysters in the 1920s NEP era in Moscow. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.

Friday, November 9th

New An Easy Way to Quit Smoking (Lyogky Sposob Brosit Kurit): Mikhail Durnenkov’s play about an infantile thirty-something man who seeks to change his worthless life. Playwright and Director Center. 8 p.m.

MT Pick Auction (Torgi): Dmitry Krymov stages a bittersweet comedy about loss based on Chekhov’s plays. School of Dramatic Art production. Project Otkrytaya Stsena. 7 p.m.

Autumn Sonata (Osennyaya Sonata): Yekaterina Polovtseva stages Ingmar Bergman with Marina Neyolova and Alyona Babenko in the leads. The story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter. Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.

Betrayal (Predatelstvo): Harold Pinter’s dissection of a woman’s affair with her husband’s best friend as seen in reverse time, from end to beginning. Directed by Vladimir Mirzoyev. Stars Maxim Sukhanov, Anna Churina and Andrei Merzlikin. Vakhtangov Theater. 7 p.m.

Doctor Zhivago: (See Thurs. listing.) Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.

Heard, Seen, Not Jotted Down (Podslushannoye, Podsmotrennoye, Nezapisannoye): an improvisational show by Yevgeny Grishkovets and Iosif Raikhelgauz. Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m.

Miss Julie: Mikhail Durnenkov’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s drama of sexual and class conflict is set in contemporary Russia. Directed by Thomas Ostermeier. Stars Chulpan Khamatova and Yevgeny Mironov. Theater of Nations. 7 p.m.

MT Pick Pushkin’s Little Tragedies (Malenkiye Tragedii Pushkina): scenes from five short plays by Alexander Pushkin. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.

New Requiem for Radames (Rekviem po Radamesu): Roman Viktyuk stages Aldo Nicolaj’s comedy set in a nursing home. Stars Olga Aroseva, Vera Vasilyeva and Yelena Obraztsova. Satire Theater. 7 p.m.

Stalingrad: (See Thurs. listing.) Studio of Theatrical Art. 7 p.m.

New The Aliens (Chuzhaki): Romanian-American director Adrian Giurgia stages the hit play by Annie Baker about two losers in a back lot and their teenage protege. Pushkin Theater affiliate. 7 p.m.

The Devils. Scenes From the Life of Nikolai Stavrogin (Besy. Stseny iz Zhizni Nikolaya Stavrogina): Sergei Golomazov’s adaptation of Dostovesky’s novel about 19th-century revolutionaries. Theater Na Maloi Bronnoi. 7 p.m.

New The Wife (Zhena): Mikhail Stankevich’s stage composition based on Chekhov’s short story. Tabakov Theater. 7 p.m.

Theatrical Novel (Teatralny Roman): Kirill Pirogov and Pyotr Fomenko’s stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 7 p.m.

New Zoika’s Apartment: (See Thurs. listing.) Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 10th

New An Easy Way to Quit Smoking: (See Fri. listing.) Playwright and Director Center. 8 p.m.

MT Pick Auction: (See Fri. listing.) Project Otkrytaya Stsena. 7 p.m.

Bluebeard — Hope of Woman (Sinyaya Boroda — Nadezhda Zhenshchin): Dea Loher’s ironical comment on modern women’s concept of “total” love staged by Pavel Semchenko and performed by Maxim Didenko and Alisa Oleinik. Meyerhold Center. 8 p.m.

New Goodbye Paper (Proshchaniye s Bumagoi): a new work by Yevgeny Grishkovets. Theater Center Na Strastnom. 9 p.m.

Happy New Year! (S Nastupayushchim!): Sergei Garmash and Leonid Yarmolnik co-star as two friends in Rodion Ovchinnikov’s New Year story. Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.

New He in Argentina (On v Argentine): Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s tragicomedy directed by Dmitry Brusnikin. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater small stage. 7 p.m.

Miss Julie: (See Fri. listing.) Theater of Nations. 7 p.m.

Night with a Stranger (Noch s Neznakomtsem): Plamen Panev’s romantic staging based on Natalia Savitskaya’s play “Wife.” Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m.

Shipov’s Travels (Pokhozhdeniya Shipova): A vaudeville based on Bulat Okudzhava’s phantasmagoric story. Et Cetera Theater. 7 p.m.

Stalingrad: (See Thurs. listing.) Studio of Theatrical Art. 7 p.m.

The Blind Society Evening Rout (Vecherny Viyezd Obshchestva Slepykh): Viktor Shenderovich’s comedy takes place in the metro when a train is stranded in between stations. Satire Theater. Noon.

The Blue Monster (Sineye Chudovishche): Konstantin Raikin directs a commedia dell’arte based on a play by Carlo Gozzi. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.

The Last Clown (Posledny Kloyn): Andrei Sokolov stars as a fifty year-old bon vivant at death’s door in a play by Bernard Slade directed by Sergei Artsibashev. Satire Theater. 7 p.m.

The Last Moons (Posledniye Luny): Rimas Tuminas’ staging based on Furio Bordon’s “Le Ultime Lune” and Harold Muller’s “Quiet Night.” Vakhtangov Theater. 7 p.m.

The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov’s satirical philosophical fantasy about Satan’s visit to Moscow. Directed by Janos Szasz. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.

The Venetian Twins (Venetsianskiye Bliznetsy): Carlo Goldoni’s comedy as staged by Paolo Emilio Landi. Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.

New The Wife: (See Fri. listing.) Tabakov Theater. 7 p.m.

New This is Me Too (Eto Tozhe Ya): A staging based on interviews with young people from 16 to 20. Praktika. 8 p.m.

Sunday, November 11th

A Man Came to a Woman. New Version (Prishyol Muzhchina k Zhenshchine): Semyon Zlotnikov’s drama about the complex relations between the sexes. Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m.

New Funds From Inheritance: (See Thurs. listing.) Satire Theater. 7 p.m.

New Goodbye Paper: (See Sat. listing.) Theater Center Na Strastnom. 9 p.m.

MT Pick Opus No. 7: Dmitry Krymov’s production in two parts — “Genealogy” (Rodoslovnaya) with texts by Lev Rubinshtein and music by Alexander Bakshi, and “Shostakovich.” School of Dramatic Art. 7 p.m.

People Are People (Lyudi Kak Lyudi): Maxim Gorky’s play “Zykovy” as staged by Vladimir Ivanov. Vakhtangov Theater. 7 p.m.

Ramona: the tragic love story of two locomotives set in the post-war Soviet Union. Production of Rezo Gabriadze’s Theater of Marionettes. Studio of Theatrical Art. 7 p.m.

Shukshin’s Stories (Rasskazy Shukshina): Alvis Hermanis’ staging of several stories by Vasily Shukshin stars Chulpan Khamatova and Yevgeny Mironov. Theater of Nations. 7 p.m.

The Blue Monster: (See Sat. listing.) Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.

The Lioness of Aquitaine (Akvitanskaya Lvitsa): Gleb Panfilov stages James Goldman’s screenplay, “The Lion in Winter,” about the gamesmanship between Henry II of England (Dmitry Pevtsov), his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (Inna Churikova), their sons and their French royal relatives. Lenkom Theater. 7 p.m.

The Master and Margarita: (See Sat. listing.) Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.

The Office: Roman Kozak’s production of Ingrid Lausund’s comedy “Slipped Disc. A Study of the Upright Walk.” Five young office workers struggle to cope with a tyrannical, unseen boss. Pushkin Theater affiliate. 7 p.m.

New The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya Dama): Andrei Zhitinkin’s staging of Pushkin’s mystical story about a young man who seeks to learn the secret of winning at cards from an old woman. Maly Theater. 6 p.m.

New Without a Dowry (Bespridannitsa): Ostrovsky’s play about a young woman’s struggle for happiness in 19th-century Russia. Maly Theater affiliate. 6 p.m.

Monday, November 12th

A Russian on a Rendezvous (Russky Chelovek na Rendez-Vous): a romantic musical staging based on Ivan Turgenev’s story “Spring Freshets.” Fomenko Studio New Stage. 7 p.m.

Day of Dust (Pylny Den): Sasha Denisova directs her own play about thirty-somethings recognizing their mortality. Playwright and Director Center. 8 p.m.

Five Evenings (Pyat Vecherov): Alexander Ogaryov’s production of Alexander Volodin’s Thaw-era play about two former lovers who meet again (Sergei Garmash and Yelena Yakovleva). Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.

MT Pick One Absolutely Happy Village: (See Thurs. listing.) Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.

New Savannah Bay: Marguerite Duras’ impressionistic play in which a girl draws her aged grandmother into a game of memories. Staged by French actor and director Christian Benedetti. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Novaya Stage. 7 p.m.

New The Final Cut: Alla Sigalova choreographs and stages Pink Floyd’s CD of the same name. Theater Center Na Strastnom. 8 p.m.

The Office: (See Sun. listing.) Pushkin Theater affiliate. 7 p.m.

Tuesday, November 13th

Come On In (Zakhodite-Zakhodite): Yury Butorin’s adaptation of Meir Shalev’s novel “As a Few Days” also called “The Four Meals” and “The Loves of Judith.” Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.

Landing Stage (Pristan): The Vakhtangov Theater jubilee staging on the themes of Brecht, Bunin, Dostoevsky, Durrenmatt, Arthur Miller, Pushkin, Eduardo de Filippo and Shakespeare. Vakhtangov Theater. 7 p.m.

Moscow. Psycho (Moskva. Psikho): Andrii Zholdak’s contemporary take on the Medea myth. Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m.

New Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti (Gospodin Puntila i Yego Sluga Matti): Mindaugas Karbauskis’ staging of Bertolt Brecht. Mayakovsky Theater. 7 p.m.

MT Pick Pushkin’s Little Tragedies: (See Fri. listing.) Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.

New Requiem for Radames: (See Fri. listing.) Satire Theater. 7 p.m.

Festival Soul of Japan: “A Tale of a City and its Four Guardian Gods”: a staging in which several Japanese theater traditions such as Kabuki, Noh, Kyogen, Japanese music and Japanese dance are assembled in one performance. Kyoto Soseiza production. Theater Kinoaktyora. 7 p.m.

New Spanish Madness (Ispanskiye Bezumstva): Igor Konyayev stages Lope de Vega’s play “The Maestro of Dance.” Lenkom Theater. 7 p.m.

The Hare. A Love Story (Zayats. Love Story): Valentin Gaft and Nina Doroshina co-star in Nikolai Kolyada’s play directed by Galina Volchek. Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.

New The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Leitenant s Ostrova Inishmor): Alexander Suvorov’s production of Martin McDonagh’s violent, black comedy. Theater Yunogo Zritelya. 7 p.m.

New The Slow Sword (Medlenny Mech): Yury Klavdiyev’s urban drama directed by Alexander Sazonov. A mix of martial arts cinema, super hero comics and Hollywood westerns. Playwright and Director Center. 8 p.m.

The Story of Happy Moskva (Rasskaz o Schastlivoi Moskve): Mindaugas Karbauskis’ adaptation of Andrei Platonov’s 1936 unfinished novel about a new, Soviet, generation of people. Tabakov Theater production. Theater Center Na Strastnom. 7 p.m.

Valve (Ventil): German Grekov’s absurdist play directed by Viktor Alfyorov. Praktika. 8 p.m.

Wednesday, November 14th

Autumn Sonata: (See Fri. listing.) Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.

Circo Ambulante: Andrei Moguchy and Maxim Isayev research the Don Quixote phenomenon in contemporary life. Stars Lia Akhedzhakova and Albert Filozov. Theater of Nations. 7 p.m.

MT Pick Katya, Sonya, Polya, Vera, Olya, Tanya: Dmitry Krymov’s staging based on Ivan Bunin’s love stories. The Meyerhold Center and the School of Dramatic Art joint production. Meyerhold Center. 7 p.m.

MT Pick Konstantin Raikin: An Evening With Dostoevsky (Konstantin Raikin: Vecher s Dostoyevskim): Director Valery Fokin and composer Alexander Bakshi create a stage version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s existentialist novel “Notes From Underground” especially for Raikin. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.

Landing Stage: (See Tues. listing.) Vakhtangov Theater. 7 p.m.

MT Pick Rothschild’s Fiddle (Skripka Rotshilda): Kama Ginkas directs his own adaptation of the Chekhov short story about an aging man tormented by the losses life brings. Theater Yunogo Zritelya. 7 p.m.

Shaga: Marguerite Duras’ tragicomedy observes a man and two women sorting out their relationships. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Novaya Stage. 7 p.m.

New Spanish Madness: (See Tues. listing.) Lenkom Theater. 7 p.m.

Tartuffe: Pavel Safonov’s staging of Moliere’s play with Viktor Sukhorukov in the lead. Theater Na Maloi Bronnoi. 7 p.m.

The Blind Society Evening Rout: (See Sat. listing.) Satire Theater. 7 p.m.

New The Maternal Field (Materinskoye Pole): a movement staging based on Chingiz Aitmatov’s story. Pushkin Theater affiliate. 7 p.m.

New The Slow Sword: (See Tues. listing.) Playwright and Director Center. 8 p.m.

MT Pick The Tempest (Burya): Shakespeare’s play as staged by Robert Sturua stars Alexander Kalyagin as Prospero. Et Cetera Theater. 7 p.m.

New The Wife: (See Fri. listing.) Tabakov Theater. 7 p.m.

and Beyond…

Circo Ambulante: (See Wed. listing.) Theater of Nations. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

New Commonplace (Obychnoye Delo): Vladimir Ivanov stages a comedy by Ray Cooney. Vakhtangov Theater. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Donky Khot: Dmitry Krymov’s whimsical, inventive show based on Cervantes’ “Don Quixote.” School of Dramatic Art. Project Otkrytaya Stsena. Nov. 15 and 16, 7 p.m.

New He in Argentina: (See Sat. listing.) Chekhov Moscow Art Theater small stage. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

La Grande Magia (Velikaya Magiya): Yevgeny Pisarev directs and stars in Eduardo de Filippo’s play about theatrical illusion and obsessional delusion. Pushkin Theater. Nov. 15 and 16, 7 p.m.

New Lies for Salvation (Lozh vo Spaseniye): Gleb Panfilov’s staging on the themes of Spanish poet and playwright Alejandro Casona. Lenkom Theater. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Money: (See Thurs. listing.) Satirikon Theater. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Pygmalion: George Bernard Shaw’s classic play about Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl whom the irascible Professor Henry Higgins “makes into a lady.” Sovremennik Theater. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

MT Pick Scorched (Pozhary): Quebec-based playwright/director Wajdi Mouawad stages his own play about love, hatred and reconciliation. Et Cetera Theater. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

New The Gift: (See Thurs. listing.) Fomenko Studio New Stage. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

MT Pick The Theater of Medea (Teatr Medei): Oksana Mysina performs a one-actress show based on Klim’s play about two actresses rehearsing the role of Medea. School of Dramatic Art. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

New Uncle’s Dream (Dyadyushkin Son): Dostoevsky’s novella dramatized by Yekaterina Granitova. Mayakovsky Theater. Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

New A Fine Place to Feed the Dogs (Nichego Sebe Mestechko Dlya Kormleniya Sobak): A post-apocalyptic play by French writer Tarik Noui about an old arms dealer and two of his customers. Staged by Robert Sturua. Et Cetera Theater. Nov. 16 and 17, 7 p.m.

Day of Dust: (See Mon. listing.) Playwright and Director Center. Nov. 16, 8 p.m.

Demons (Besy): Yury Lyubimov’s staging of Dostoevsky’s novel about 19th-century revolutionaries. Music by Igor Stravinsky and Vladimir Martynov. Vakhtangov Theater. Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

Exit the King (Korol Umirayet): Eugene Ionesco’s tone poem on the process of dying as staged by Krzysztof Zanussi. Taganka Theater. Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

Heat (Zhara): Natalya Moshina’s play about a group of romantic terrorists as staged by Vladimir Ageyev. Praktika. Nov. 16, 7 and 9 p.m.

Karenin: Vasily Sigarev’s tragicomedy, based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina,” focuses on her husband Alexei. Directed by Viesturs Meiksans. Preview. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater small stage. Nov. 16 and 17, 7 p.m.

New Moscow-Petushki: Venedikt Yerofeyev’s “poem” about a romantic drunkard directed by Sergei Zhenovach. Studio of Theatrical Art. Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

MT Pick Pushkin’s Little Tragedies: (See Fri. listing.) Satirikon Theater. Nov. 16 and 29, 7 p.m.

Shakespeare’s Fools (Shuty Shekspirovy): Kama Ginkas stages a mixture of scenes from several Shakespeare plays, including “Romeo and Juliet,” “Richard III” and “Hamlet.” Theater Yunogo Zritelya. Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

The God of Carnage (Bog Rezni): Sergei Puskepalis directs Yasmina Reza’s play about two pairs of parents brought into contact by their sons’ altercation while playing. Sovremennik Theater. Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

New The Triumph of Love (Triumf Lyubvi): Bulgarian director Galin Stoev stages Marivaux’s classic comedy. Theater of Nations. Nov. 16 and 23, 7 p.m.

New The Triumph of Love (Triumf Lyubvi): Bulgarian director Galin Stoev stages Marivaux’s classic comedy. Theater of Nations. Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

New Romeo and Juliet: Konstantin Raikin’s new version of the Shakespeare tragedy. Satirikon Theater. Nov. 17, 18, 22, 27 and 30, 7 p.m.

New The Maternal Field: (See Wed. listing.) Pushkin Theater affiliate. Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

New The Wife: (See Fri. listing.) Tabakov Theater. Nov. 20, 7 p.m.

New The Final Cut: (See Mon. listing.) Theater Center Na Strastnom. Nov. 24, 8 p.m.