In the very center of Moscow, on the eternally crowded Tverskoy Boulevard, there is a theatre – popular and relevant. On its stage, high theatrical art and a show that turns a common evening into a holiday are united – to the envy of many other venues. The repertoire includes classics from different eras: Beaumarchais and Stoppard, Marivaux and Bulgakov, Twain and Dovlatov, Chekhov and Brecht. Each text, regardless of the date of writing, is the basis of a live, modern performance; no matter what costumes the star performers wear. 

Perhaps this is because the spirit of the great innovator Alexander Tairov, who created the legendary Chamber Theater here in 1914, “a theater of emotionally saturated forms,” still lives in the historic building. And because since 2010 the artistic director of the Pushkin Theatre has been Evgeny Pisarev, a wonderful director with a taste for a bright spectacle, extensive experience in musical theatre and an ideal understanding of the nature of acting.

To start the special TheatreHD project, we have chosen three already classic, benchmark performances reflecting different facets of the Pushkin Theatre. "Talents and the Dead" is a dazzling work by the artistic director himself, a mischievous farce based on Mark Twain with Sergey Lazarev in the title burlesque role. "The Cherry Orchard" is a tragicomic grotesque by Vladimir Mirzoev with Victoria Isakova and Alexander Petrov in the roles of Ranevskaya and Lopakhin. "The Good Person of Szechwan" is an ideal example of Brecht's production in the version by Yuri Butusov with Alexandra Ursulyak brilliantly playing two key roles.