Irina Astashkevich

Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Poet of The Lost World

Lecture by Irina Astashkevich When: Tuesday, February 9 at 7:00 pm Language: Russian Admission: suggested donation $10; Members Free Venue: Arlekin Players Theater, 368 Hillside Ave, Needham, MA Parking: Needham Heights Train Station Irina Astashkevich will give a lecture on the writer that is of much interest to the theatre...

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Memorial Prayer

Memorial Prayer

Memorial Prayer (Pominalnaya Molitva) – In 1915, in his will, Shalom Aleichem asked his family and friends to remember him by telling his stories and recalling his name “with laughter or not at all.” In 2015, 100 years later, we honor Shalom Aleichem’s will and relive the stories of our...

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Jubilee

The Jubilee, by Anton Chekhov The Jubilee” (sometimes known as “The Anniversary”) is probably the least produced of the one-act comedies Anton Chekhov wrote before 1891. Directed by Igor Golyak Producer Alexandr Kleyman Cast: Marina Karmanova Kristina Guzikova Boris Kofman Boris Borushek Production Team Stage Artist – Anastasia Grigorieva Stage...

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Immigrants 3.0

Arlekin Players is proud to present our newest production: “Immigrants 3.0” Based on the play “Not Far From God” by Ganna Slutski …In the 1990’s, a massive wave of immigrants fled the Former Soviet Union. The first steps, the first struggles of the new immigrants in Israel – is the...

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Arlekin’s First English Language Production

This February, for the first time ever, Arlekin Players will perform a play in English. Previously all plays have been performed in Russian (Immigrants 3.0, The Guest), or in Russian with English surtitles (Memorial Prayer). Now Arlekin Players is drawing the English-speaking audience of Greater Boston in with the English...

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Natasha's Dream

Natasha’s Dream Press Release

Press/Critics are invited to either performance. For reservations, please call (617) 942-0022. Arlekin Players’ Natasha’s Dream Returns in Highly-Anticipated English Translation NEEDHAM, MA: After two acclaimed Russian productions at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Arlekin Players’ one-woman show Natasha’s Dream, featuring actress Darya...

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Vadim Khrapachev

Meet Composer Vadim Khrapachev

On Saturday, December 20th, we will have a very special guest at our studio – Composer Vadim Khrapachev from the Ukraine. Vadim has created soundtracks for more than 70 movies. Among them are Flights in Dreams and Reality, Keep me, my Talisman, and other masterpieces. What is more important, Vadim...

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Arlekin receiving a gift from Igor Zolotovitsky in April of 2015.

Collaborative Seminar at the Moscow Art Theatre School

Dear friends! We would like to share with you a very special experience. As many of you know, after the (extremely) successful run of “Memorial Prayer” in January, 2015, Anatoly Smeliansky who was present at the performance, invited our group for a special collaborative seminar at the Moscow Art Theatre...

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Memorial Prayer

Memorial Prayer Press Release

Needham, MA (Jan. 5, 2015) – For the first time on a large stage, Arlekin Players Theatre will perform its newest production, Grigoriy Gorin’s Memorial Prayer. A transformational adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof based on Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the Milkman, the timeless classic delves into the complexities of the...

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