Publication date: May 15, 2019 Publishing URL: The Boston Globe Author: Terry Byrne, Globe Correspondent A scene from Arlekin Players’ production of “The Stone.”(NATHAN KLIMA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE) Within the walls of a house in Dresden, Germany, the ghosts of a troubled past echo across the decades. Arlekin Players...
Publication date: June 6, 2019 Publishing URL: Broadway World Author: Erik Nikander, The Arts Fuse This marvelous production pulls off a tricky balance — vibrant bursts of creative energy are put at the service of illuminating the thorny nature of memory and guilt. The Stone by Marius von Mayenburg. Directed...
Slava Gaufberg in concert with the new program ” What for, then?” An evening with songs by Bulat Okudzhava, Yuri Kukin, Evgeniy Klyachkin, Yuri Vizbor, Slava Gaufberg and possibly other famous and less famous authors… This concert was performed to the great acclaim in Moscow on September 27 and October...
Publication date: June 1, 2017 Publishing URL: Broadway World Author: Justin J. Sacramone Upon entering the small, second-floor performance space home to Arlekin Players (A Russian theater company based in Needham, MA and run by Artistic Director Igor Golyak), it was evident every traditional American theater standard would be questioned,...
Publication date: May 23, 2017 Publishing URL: WBUR Author: Kilian Melloy The way Arlekin Players founder and artistic director Igor Golyak tells it, the origin story of his internationally well-regarded troupe is something akin to a fairy tale. “It’s a Cinderella story,” Golyak said, during a recent interview. “I came...
Publication date: May 17, 2017 Publishing URL: ArtsFuse Author: Erik Nikander Not only is this production’s approach to Bulgakov’s source material refreshing in its directness, it’s also bursting with visual and auditory inventiveness. Dead Man’s Diary: A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Directed by Igor Golyak. Adapted and staged by...
Publication date: March 21, 2017 Publishing URL: HowlRound Author: Erik Nikander Natasha’s Dream: a Foreign and Familiar Vision Some works of art are political due to the issues of class disparity, gender bias, or racial discrimination that they explore. Other works are politicized by broader developments in the world around...
Date: March 19, 2017 Time: 6 PM Venue: Igor Golyak Acting Studio Tickets: starting from $15 Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, THE BLACK MONK tells the tragic tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil’ich Kovrin. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood...
Arlekin Players Theatre and Stage Russia bring you Russian theatre masterpieces. In Russian with English subtitles. Eugene Onegin has often been referred to as an encyclopedia of 19th century Russian life. Rimas Tuminas’ reimagining unfolds in the memory and imagination of Pushkin’s characters. The images are split between past and...
В 2008 году Игорь Голяк организовал в Бостоне актерскую школу Arlekin, из ядра которой со временем создалась труппа Arlekin Players Theatre, живущая ныне по законам профессионального драматического театра. Свои спектакли коллектив играет на двух языках (русском и английском), что не помешало ему завоевать и зрительское признание, и массу наград… –...