Despite name-checking CBGB and Delancey Street, this adaptation of the Russian playwright Edvard Radzinski’s She, in the Absence of Love and Death takes place in a geographical limbo—call it Manhattan on the Moskva. Its turgid vision of corrupt judges, sex-starved moms, and freewheeling bands of jazz-rappers survives the transition into English only superficially, leaving behind an entire submerged […]

Russian Television Network features an interview of the premiere of Sophia Romma's play "Absolute Clarity" at the Players Theater (circa 2006), directed by Yuri Joffe of the celebrated Mayakovski Academic Art Theatre. Nina Vishneva hosts.