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Lensky taking his fiance Olga’s hand, as her more introverted sister, Tatyana sits reading under the watchful gaze of Eugene Onegin. The adaptation of Pushkin’s novel in verse is showing at Novaya Opera on Wednesday.

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.

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