“In Arlekin’s ‘The Gaaga,’ a Ukrainian playwright puts Vladimir Putin on trial”

“In ‘The Gaaga,’ Sasha Denisova tells a comedic and ‘grotesque’ wartime story”

This version takes place in a nightclub environment, bringing Shakespeare's festival setting into the modern world.

The frenetically inventive director, Igor Golyak, and his ensemble cast don’t shrink from the historical atrocities they dramatize. The audience delivered an impassioned ovation.

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Press Release. THE DYBBUK is an ancient, fantastical, mystical Yiddish folk tale; a story of love, family, displacement, and the restless Jewish soul, set in the heart of the historic sanctuary of The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture on Beacon Hill. Steeped in folklore and cultural tradition, it...

Press Release. Arlekin Players Theatre, the award-winning, artist-driven theater company helmed by Ukrainian-born artistic director Igor Golyak, today announced its 2023-2024 Season featuring the New York premiere of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Polish masterpiece OUR CLASS as adapted by Norman Allen, directed by Golyak

Press Release. Arlekin Players Theatre, the award-winning, artist-driven theater company helmed by Ukrainian-born artistic director Igor Golyak, today announced its 2023-2024 Season featuring the New York premiere of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Polish masterpiece OUR CLASS as adapted by Norman Allen, directed by Golyak

Press Release. Arlekin Players, an award-winning, artist-driven theater company helmed by Ukrainian-born artistic director Igor Golyak, today announces its next production THE GAAGA.

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