Theater Addresses
Thursday The 15th
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 7 p.m.
New Russians or One-Hour Men (Noviye Russkiye ili Muzhchiny na Chas): Viktor Merezhko's comedy directed by Andrei Krasko. Novoye Iskusstvo Theater Center production. Theater Kinoaktyora. 7 p.m.
Friday The 16th
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 7 p.m.
Pygmalion: George Bernard Shaw's classic play about the Cockney flower girl, whom the irascible Professor Henry Higgins "makes into a lady." Masquerade Company production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. 7 p.m.
Saturday The 17th
Big Zebra (Bolshaya Zebra): a French comedy starring Larisa Guseyeva and Garik Martirisyan. VIP Theater production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. 7 p.m.
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 2:30 and7 p.m.
The Laughing Flower (Tsvetok Smeyushchiisya): Yefim Shifrin in Noel Coward's comedy "Present Laughter." Innovation Theater Center production. TsDKZh. 7 p.m.
Sunday The 18th
Bobsled for an Adult Man (Bobslei Dlya Vzroslogo Muzhchiny): Boris Smolkin and Nastya Samburskaya in a romantic comedy based on Eric Assous's play "Les Montagnes Russes." Novoye Iskusstvo Theater Center production. TsDKZh. 7 p.m.
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 7 p.m.
Monday The 19th
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 7 p.m.
Paper Marriage (Bumazhny Brak): Valery Garkalin, Yelena Yakovleva and Daniil Spivakovsky in Sergei Bodrov's comic drama directed by Alexander Ogaryov. Art-Partner XXI Agency production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. 7 p.m.
Tuesday The 20th
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 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.
Turbot Day (Den Paltusa): a light contemporary comedy directed by Roman Samgin. Art-Partner XXI Agency production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. 7 p.m.
You Have to Get Married, Master (Zhenitsya Vam Nado, Barin): a comedy based on Nikolai Nekrasov's play "Autumn Boredom." Stas Marat Basharov. Contemporary Enterprise Theater production. TsDKZh. 7 p.m.
Wednesday The 21st
Clinical Case (Klinichesky Sluchai): Roman Samgin stages Ray Cooney's farce "It Runs in the Family." Art-Partner XXI Agency production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. 7 p.m.
Dear Pamela (Dorogaya Pamela): John Patrick's comedy. Theatrical Marathon Project production. Theatrium Na Serpukhovke. 7 p.m.
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. 7 p.m.
NEW My Shadow Mikhail Levitin tages Yevgeny Shvarts's allegorical fairy tale. Hermitage Theater production. Fomenko Studio New Stage. 7 p.m.
The House (Dom): Yevgeny Grishkovets' play about money and friendship, material and spiritual values. Contemporary Play School. 7 p.m.
and Beyond…
A Neighbor for a Week, No Longer! (Sosed na Nedelyu, ne Bolshe!): a comedy directed by Valery Garkalin. Art-Partner XXI Agency production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. Aug. 22, 7 p.m.
Encore! (Na Bis): a new circus show. Nikulin Circus Na Tsvetnom Bulvare. Aug. 22 and 23, 7 p.m.
NEW My Shadow: (See Wed. listing.) Fomenko Studio New Stage. Aug. 22 and 23, 7 p.m.
The Easiest Way to Quit Smoking (Samy Lyogky Sposob Brosit Kurit): Mikhail Durnenkov's play about an infantile thirty year-old man who seeks to change his life. Contemporary Play School. Aug. 22, 7 p.m.
The Wedding (Svadba): Nina Chusova stages a vaudeville based plays by Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Millennium Theater House production. TsDKZh. Aug. 22, 7 p.m.
NEW The Official and a Woman (Chinovnik i Zhenshchina): Alexander Gorban stages a comedy based on a play by Aldo Nicolai. Contemporary Enterprise Theater production. TsDKZh. Aug. 23, 7 p.m.
What're You Doing in a Tux? (A Choi-to Ty vo Frake?): a mock-opera, mock-ballet of Chekhov's one-act play "The Proposal," in which a shy landowner seeks the hand of his blustery neighbor's daughter. Contemporary Play School. Aug. 23, 7 p.m.
Love According to the Stanislavsky System (Lyubov po Sisteme Stanislavskogo): a vaudeville directed by Mikhail Kozakov. Innovation Theater Center. TsDKZh. Aug. 24, 7 p.m.
Zoika's Apartment (Zoikina Kvartira): Mikhail Bulgakov's play about a wild crew of petty thieves, crooks and shysters in the 1920s NEP-era in Moscow. Hermitage Theater production. Fomenko Studio New Stage. Aug. 24, 7 p.m.
The Master and Margarita: Sergei Aldonin's stages a tragicomic fantasy based on Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical novel about Satan's visit to Moscow. Bulgakov Theater. Aug. 25, 7 p.m.
Love Potion (Privorotnoye Zelye): a romantic comedy set in 16th-century Italy. Masquerade Company production. Commonwealth of Taganka Actors. Aug. 28, 7 p.m.
The Tempter (Iskusitel): A contemporary comedy starring Maria Aronova, Alexander Feklistov and Daniil Spivakovsky. Contemporary Enterprise Theater production. TsDKZh. Aug. 29, 7 p.m.