No experience required! Arlekin Players’ Inaugural Playwright Intensive seeks submissions from immigrants in the community who wish to give voice to their story! The intensive itself is free of charge thanks to generous contributions from Arlekin’s community. Five playwrights will be chosen to participate. Working with our guest playwright and...
Publication date: September 19, 2019 Publishing URL: Jewish Journal Author: Jules Becker Last season, talented artistic director Igor Golyak examined the odyssey of a maturing fictional Russian writer in the drama “Dead Man’s Diary” at Arts Emerson’s Liebgott Theatre with remarkable sensitivity. Now Arlekin Players opens its 10th anniversary season...
Publication date: September 18, 2019 Publishing URL: JoycesChoices.com Author: Joyce Kulhawik There’s a trove of theater to discover in Boston RIGHT NOW! Here’s more of what I’ve seen onstage in the last 10 days. “THE STONE” — Take a trip to Needham and up a narrow staircase to a tiny theater...
Publication date: September 20, 2019 Publishing URL: Boston Globe Author: Don Aucoin Excavating the Truth in Arlekin’s spellbinding ‘The Stone’ David Gamarnik and Olga Sokolova in Arlekin Players Theatre’s production of “The Stone.” IRINA DANILOVA NEEDHAM — Our collective memory of the past is always vulnerable to self-serving revisions, never...
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...