Throughout the year RFTU organises and co-organises up to 100 professional events, festivals, conferences, exhibitions of theatre set and costume design, seminars, workshops and master classes given by leading professionals with different partners in Russia and abroad.
All-Russian festival of amateur theatres "PLAY" joined to the International Theatre Day will be held online from March 9 to March 19, 2021. The program of the Festival will be represented by the premiers of 2020.
Performance is nominated for "Golden Mask" award in nomination "Experiment". Staying at home, you could find yourself in the theater hall and get emotions that are not comparable to online broadcasting. In this case, a theatrical action is dedicated for you only. Both you and the actor are reading a play (written in a form of a dialogue) over the phone. Before the session you will receive the text by e-mail, only your own part which means that any improvisations are possible. And, of course, the intrigue that persists until the end of the play.
Between March 11 and 17 the Scenography Commission of the Russian Theatre Union will hold the workshops for costume designers, costume technologists, decorators and props makers under the direction of acknowledged masters and theatre practitioners.
Online Seminar for actors and pedagogues of scenic voice "Analyses of the play and role" under direction of candidate of Art, professor Irina Promptova.
Travel grant for theatre professionals to hold educational projects in theatres in different cities of Russia (excluding Moscow and St. Petersburg). The project is aimed to provide support to the Russian theatres in inviting theatre experts to hold educational projects of different kind. Grant stimulates exchange of experience, professional development and maintenance of professional contacts.
Workshop of physical theater and performance "DialogLab" under the direction of choreographers Ivan Estegneev and Anna Abalikhina (Moscow). The workshop is aimed at finding a synthesis between dance and non-verbal theater in the current theatrical landscape. The applications for participation in the workshop are accepted by March 14, 2021.
All-Russian seminar of playwrights "Author's stage-2021". The plays are selected on competitive basis and are to be sent until April 15, 2021.
The grant is given to support: -conducting of regional, national and international professional theatre festivals and showcases; -participation of a professional theatre group in international or Russian theater festival/showcase or performing arts fair.
Grant to support theatres to organize and held educational project of different kind - forums, seminars, workshops and others in both online and offline formats.
The Festival's focus is on myth as the unique genre of the world’s literature and transformation of mythology in national epos, fantastic stories, fantasies, fairy-tales. The Festival presents contemporary performing arts productions from Russia and Europe in two separate programs: for children and youth and for adults aiming to reveal new ways of bringing fantastic stories on stage in drama theatre and contemporary dance, puppet theatre, non-verbal and visual theatre.
The Festival introduces the best performances for children and youth directed by the young theatre directors who have recently graduated from Moscow theatre schools and work in regional Russian theatres.
Theater critics visit theatres in the regions of Russia during the period from March 15 to December 15, 2021.
«Start-up» - informational website for young and emerging theatre professionals who want to know about and apply for projects and support programs of the Russian Theatre Union.
Theatre Union‘s web project is dedicated to smooth over the repertory problems in Russian musical theatres: the catalogue includes information on musicals compositions, just produced or performed.
Digital catalogue - the plays are arranged by the playwrights, enterpreters, genres, language. List of the new publications is also available.
Digital Theatre Words (DTW) is a global project undertaken by International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT), the goal of the project is to compile an Internet dictionary addressed to all theatre professionals: set designers, stage architects, managers, costume designers, light designers, sound specialists, technicians, etc. The Russian-English version worked out by the Russian OISTAT Centre is available online at www.rtlb.ru/en/dtw/
Russian Theatre Union encourage regional theatres to apply for online lectures and seminars with theater critics. Participation in this project will allow regional theaters to get an expert contribution to their creative process including direction of the play.
Russian Theatre Union is a founder and publisher of several theatre magazines: THEATRE, THE OTHER SHORES, STRASTNOY BULEVARD, 10, THE STAGE. Selected publications or electronic copies of the magazines are available on their websites.
Published electronically, the Guide comprises information about some 250 regular performing arts festivals in Russia, arranged by genre, host city, and application policy.
Information project and Web portal for performing arts professionals: announcements of international mobility opportunities and information about Russian theatre life for English speaking colleagues.
How theatre reacts to the new challanges of time? What forms it developed to adapt to new reality? We developed the list of the most interesting examples of how the art react during isolation time.
List of theatre activities to express support and gratefulness to the doctors.
A Russian Theatre Union (RTU) venue with 18th century arched ceilings offers excellent atmosphere for all sorts of theatre events. It gives space to young experimental artists and independent theatre companies, hosts RTU projects, festivals, theatre designers exhibitions, installations, lectures and workshops.
A selection of free online courses from leading universities and educational platform dedicated to the heritage of William Shakespeare.
RFTU Information Resources
RTLB (Russian Theatre Life in Brief), former RFTU information projectRussian Theatre FestivalsRussian Theatre MagazinesRussian Theatre schoolsRussian In Focus Newsletters and Articles on Russian Theatre (2011-2014)Contemporary Dance in RussiaMobility Publications
To Moscow! Networking and Mobility GuideInternational Mobility and Networking FactsheetsExternal Links
Russian Center of ITIThe Theatre Times. Articles related to theatre in RussiaDance Writer. Articles and Studies on Contemporary Dance in Russia