Igor Golyak and Arlekin Players Theatre explore the many times, places, and forms of anti-Jewish bigotry.

“It doesn’t feel virtual; it feels real.”

Like Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise, Igor Golyak sees his mission as “To boldly go where no one has gone before.” Golyak, the artistic director of the Needham-based Arlekin Players, leads an award-winning troupe rooted in the traditions of classical and contemporary Russian theater that is...

The theater’s latest work blends live performance, film, and technology, but it is based on the real-life accounts of immigrants.

When Igor Golyak, founder and artistic director of Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre, was researching “The Merchant of Venice,” he was smacked in the face by the discovery that Jews have been on the move throughout the span of their existence.

Anton Chekhov's Cherry Orchard, with the writer portrayed by the legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov, gets a new interactive treatment during lockdown.

Documentary asks: ‘Where do unwanted people go?’

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Arlekin opens the season with WITNESS, a bold and complex new documentary theater piece that bears witness to the migratory experience of Jews today and through history.

WITNESS is a new documentary theater piece about Jewish immigration in the face of antisemitism. Click below to read the Press Release.