Anton Chekhov

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov was permitted to leave the country and has travelled to Berlin. 

The 52-year-old is known for his daring films and plays that have earned him the ire of conservatives.

One of the world's biggest theatre festivals gets underway on July 5 in the southern French city of Avignon after a year-long hiatus caused by COVID-19, with masks compulsory for audiences but organizers relishing a return to relative normality.

In Zorlu PSM's new online series, titled Digital Stage, sections of the theater's cult works are interpreted from today's perspective and presented to the audience on its YouTube channel. In the premiere to be held today, Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu and Damla Sönmez will play a short part of Shakespeare's most staged piece "Hamlet."

The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Theaters will open the 2020 season online due to the new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

According to a written statement, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's "A Marriage Proposal" will be premiered online today at 11 a.m.

Bob Dylan has completed his Nobel course requirements. The Swedish Academy announced on June 5 that it has received the mandatory lecture from the 2016 literature winner, enabling Dylan to collect 8 million Swedish kronor ($922,000) in prize money. 

The actor Petros Fyssoun, 83, died on December 5 at Sotiria Hospital from a respiratory infection.
The much loved actor, born in Agrinio, Greece, on October 5, 1933, was the son of a Russian émigré who had settled in Greece after the Russian Revolution.

A gala night was organized on Nov. 21 for one of the masterpieces of the great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, "The Seagull," staged by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theaters at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Theater. 

Speaking to state-run Anadolu Agency, director Yıldırım Urağ said Chekhov was very important to him and he was delighted to stage him in Istanbul.

There is a story that the State Theaters will only stage local plays this season. Even though this would be very difficult practically and technically, along with the fact that the Culture Ministry has said, "This does not mean that foreign plays will not be staged," I could not understand how this decision would contribute to the "spirit of national mobilization" we are currently experiencing.

Internationally acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film "K?? Uykusu" (Winter Sleep) is set to be screened in Russia at a festival bringing together the modern adaptations of writer Anton Chekhov's works.

During the event, members of the public will also be able to come together with foreign and Russian cinema artists. 

To mark the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema, Turkey's Palme d'Or Award winner filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan attended the screening of his film "K?? Uykusu" (Winter Sleep) at the Los Angeles Museum of Arts (LACMA) Bing Theater on May 6.