A great interest about the Vakhtangov theatre is aroused not only among
Muscovites, but also among residents of different regions of Russia and abroad.
It has especially increased with the appointment of Rimas Tuminas to the post of
Artistic director.The theater became a constant participant of many
prestigious theater festivals in Russia, the UK, Spain, Israel, Turkey, Greece,
Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, etc.Touring plans of
the theater are aimed to expand cultural boundaries between cities and
countries, to introduce to the public not only the productions of the Vakhtangov
Theatre, which became hits of the past seasons, but with quite new,
experimental, recently appeared on the stage of the First Studio of the
Vakhtangov Theater as well.In
April – June Vakhtangov Theatre will participate in the following theater
festivals:

  April (5) – in Arkhangelsk in the theater festival “European Spring”
will be presented the play “Demons” by F.Dostoevsky staged by a brilliant
direction Yuri Lyubimov.    May (14, 15) – in the framework of the program
“Best plays”  of the Golden Mask
festival the production of “Anna Karenina” based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy,
directed by Angelica Cholina will be presented in Omsk.  May (19) –
Fifth International Festival Debuts “Tilos!”, which will be held in Vilnius, is
waiting for a visit of the very young actors of the First Studio of the
Vakhtangov Theater with a play “The Birds” by Aristophanes’ play, directed by
Mikhail Milkis. This will be the first tour of the Studio and its first
participation in an international festival.  June (7) – Organizers
of the presidential program “Russian theatres to the North Caucasus” have chosen
for the festival a play “Masquerade” by M.Lermontov stage-version of Rimas
Tuminas. The play will be presented in Pyatigorsk city. This event is of
particular excitement for Vakhtangov theatre – it was a city, where M.Lermontov
loved to come, where many of his works “swarmed”, where at the foothills of
Mashuk Mountain is a place where the poet was killed at a duel and where at the
Pyatigorsk cemetery his body is buried.This trip will also be
significant due to the fact that on June 8 Vakhtangov will participate
in the opening ceremony of the monument to the great founder of the theater,
director and teacher Vakhtangov Vakhtangov, held in the city of
Vladikavkaz.  June (11, 12, 13.) – Geneva will Vakhtangov the play “Uncle Vanya” by AP
Chekhov – performance, that has seen almost half the world. This will be
the first tour of the Vakhtangov Theater in Switzerland after a long
break.