Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the movers and shakers in 20th century theater. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he influenced the art of performance ...

Three years ago, the premiere of Jackson's "The Death of Meyerhold," about Soviet theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold, became a huge critical and commercial success for Shotgun, constituting a ...

Meyerhold's theater of the grotesque and ‘biomechanics’ Vsevolod Meyerhold created a special kind of theater that came to succeed folk performances on squares. The theater of the grotesque ...

His work deeply impressed theatrical visionaries like Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht. The man in question was Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), a towering figure in the history of Peking Opera.

To be, or not to be, is the driving question behind James Ijames’s play and Wilbury Theatre’s Rhode Island premiere production PROVIDENCE — The great Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold used ...

Director and writer Richard Eyre appraises the Russian Revolution's impact on theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, at first an enthusiastic Bolshevik, later victim of the regime. Show more Ten ...

With humor, tragedy, and grotesque theatricality, “The Death of Meyerhold” is a play by Mark Jackson that depicts the contradictory life, art, and era of famed Russian theater director Vsevolod ...

Pluchek began his theater career working with Vsevolod Meyerhold, the relentlessly experimental director who was arrested and shot in 1940, and then with playwright Alexei Arbuzov. Pluchek ...

Vsevolod Meyerhold, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1940 after becoming a victim of Soviet purges, was a Russian theatrical director and producer, who led the revolt against naturalism in ...

“Meyerhold on Theatre” brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold’s most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a ...