A lion is the lead role in the drama thriller Beast (The Beast/2022), adapted for the screen from the story by Jaime Primak Sullivan, by director, actor, producer Baltasar Kormakur. This lion is a real lion living in the wild, not a fantasy or alien creature. The herd of this lion is slaughtered by poachers during the hunt. The lion begins to kill people both to avenge his herd and to protect…
– Nikolay, the day before, closer to the night, the third round ended. Participants, teachers, fans are waiting for the results. What are your impressions of this ballet marathon? Especially taking into account the most difficult international situation, when…
Insects started in the books: INION, restored after the fire, revealed the secrets
June 11, 2022
Aleksey Kuznetsov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, kindly agreed to lead me through the floors of the new INION.
It should be noted right away that an additional floor appeared in the new building – this is how the space is divided. Thus, if…
The government decided to allocate 500 million rubles to support folk crafts
June 10, 2022
At a meeting with representatives of leading enterprises of folk art crafts, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the day before he had consulted with President Vladimir Putin and received permission to additionally allocate 500 million rubles to support this area.
The prime minister noted that the head of state “seriously owns the topic” and pays great attention to it.
Dancer Enaldiev shaved his head, dropping out of the ballet competition at the Bolshoi
June 10, 2022
Passing the participants through the sieve of the II round, as always, they proceeded from the number of awards: for the most important III round, where these awards, in fact, will be distributed, it was possible to pass only a little more than 40 people in the senior and…
Brothers Semyon and Vasily celebrated 30th service to the stage
“30 Years in the Moments of My Creativity” – this is how the creative evening, which was held at the Youth Theater under the direction of Vyacheslav Spesivtsev, was called in capital letters. Three…
His temperament goes off scale, no matter what he undertakes: to rehearse, to stage performances, to teach students, to talk about his native Odessa, to argue about politics, to write books on directing (they are textbooks), to rush to Baikal or through impenetrable swamps … He does not know how live half; he is a transgressor in art and society, is not afraid to fight (literally and…
The initiatives of the Ukrainian authorities were compared in absurdity with the mass change of sex
June 9, 2022
Two pieces of news that came from Ukraine immediately discouraged, shocked, but did not surprise. The local Ministry of Culture decided to create a “council for de-Russification, decommunization and decolonization”, and the Ministry of Education and Science decided to…
The international cultural project “Russian Seasons” may be canceled in 2022 due to US and Western sanctions against Russia. And the released subsidies for its organization can be used to increase the number of tours in Russia, including for groups from the DPR…
After Glukhovsky was put on the wanted list, the play "Text" was removed from the Yermolovsky Theater
June 8, 2022
On the stage of the Yermolovsky Theater, we will no longer see the play “Text” – this is a reality that has become inevitable after the announcement of the wanted list of the writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the novel of the same name. “Yesterday they still played it – and after the end they gathered the artists backstage and announced to them that the performance…