The Overcoat: Drama. Adapted from the short story by Nikolai Gogol and directed byMorris Panych and Wendy Gorling. (Through Sept. 25. CanStage at American Conservatory Theater, Geary Theater, 415 ...

THERE’S MUSIC and movement but it’s not a dance. There are no words, and yet it’s a play. What exactly is “The Overcoat,” the Canadian import that opens American Conservatory Theater’s 39th season? To ...

The film may never be completed, but its story is mythical in animation circles. For four decades, Russian director Yuri Norstein and his creative partner — and wife — Francheska Yarbusova have been ...

Studio-based theatre, for so long the preserve of the frivolous and the makeshift, has truly come of age, bursting the seams of its former home and graduating onto main stages. By marrying grand ...

The Bushnell is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a brave new undertaking that cries out (silently) to be seen by lovers of theater, dance and film: the vivid and exciting CanStage production of ...

Inspired by Gogol’s short story The Overcoat, the Ipswich-based Gecko Theatre Company has created this breath-taking piece of physical theatre to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Russian ...

In his short, tormented life, the Russian novelist Nikolai Vassilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) managed to write for the ages. His oeuvre is huge. Among the familiar masterworks are "Dead Souls," the first ...

It all began when someone stole my overcoat. At the time I was stationed in Heilbronn, Germany, a private first class in Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 60th Infantry Regiment. I was ...

In this hyperliterary city, where Dostoevsky tours steer visitors to the supposed site of Raskolnikov’s savage crime, where the Nabokov Museum draws modernists to the émigré great’s childhood home, ...