ESSENCE Theatre-Studio opens a new International theater Festival titled "BROOKLYN BRIDGE", which will be held in New York City. For now, in 2021, due to the current conditions, we would like to acquaint the US-based Russian-speaking audience with the world of Russian theaters across the globe in an ONLINE format of our Festival.

Russian-speaking America is large and multi-ethnic; we are expecting spectators from Alaska to Florida, and even Canada. The festival program includes theaters from Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Belarus, Mexico, Uzbekistan and the United States.
The festival will present not just the video documentations of the performances – an innovative online format of theater production will be shown, aimed to reach audience members despite new challenges.

Artistic Director of the festival - Nabi Abdurakhmanov

Chief International Expert - Nina Mazur

Head of the literary department - Regina Gottfried

Associate Artistic Director of the festival - Vassa Vasileva

PRESS RELEASE

VOX IN DESERTO

by Didi Tal,
ESSENCE Theatre-Studio, USA
Sunday,   March 7,   7.30 pm
Saturday, March 13, 7.30pm

PUGACHEV. THE BIRTH

An independent theater project. Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
Solo performance of Marat Amiraev (Kyrgyzstan).
Director - Alexey Shemes (Russia)
The performance was performed on a basis of "Zhas Sakhna" Theater, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

DIALOGUES IN A CAGE

by Alexander Kostinski
Theater Laboratory, Kiev, Ukraine
Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 7:00 pm

ASTRO-REMISSION

based on the play by A. Rosca

Theatre "ART", Chisinau, Moldova

Saturday, June 5, at 5.00pm

PRINCE MYSHKIN

Armen Qushkyan solo performance based on the novel "Idiot" by F.Dostoevsky,
Gabriel Sundukyan National Academic Theater, Armenia
Saturday, April 24, at 5.30 pm

WORLDS IN COLLISION

by Iddo Netanyahu,
State Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Sunday, May 16, at 7.00 pm

TRIPTYCH

Solo performance by Ksenia Boyko based on three plays by Nina Mazur,
New Art Theater, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Sunday, May 9, at 7.30 pm

INITIATION

by the novel of W. Faulkner «The Sound and the Fury»,
theatre-film production oа Roman Rakhimov and Ilya Khalmurzaev, Moscow, Russia
Saturday, July 24, 7.30 pm

HAMLET'S DREAMS

by a play of Nina Mazur based on the tragedy of W. Shakespeare.
State Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Directed by Kamilla Abdurakhmanova.
Saturday, July 3, 7.30 pm