Gogol Center

The Gogol Center, Russia’s leading avant-garde theater is a multi-use arts complex in Moscow, featuring movies, music concerts, a discussion club, and performances by Russian and foreign directors on several stages. The Center is noted for its stagings of contemporary Russian Dramas and a lobby featuring neon-lit mirrors shaped like famous directors. and as part of recent news related to Russian State censorship of the arts.

The Center's has recently[] hosted dance companies including SounDrama and Studio Seven as part of an experimental artist in residence program specifically committed to art that "does not limit itself with any genre boundaries and constantly strives to reflect Modern Art in the most relevant way."

The Center's writer and dramaturge, Valeriy Pecheykin, is a regular contributor to the Russian LGBT magazine Kvir, author of the plays My Moscow (2008), Net (2009), Lucifer (2008), Russia, Forward! (2011), A Little Hero (2014), screenplay co-author for Pavel Lungin's The Conductor (Russia, 2012).[]

Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center, is professor (of acting and direction) at the Moscow Art Theatre School. His productions were presented at the Wiener Festwochen and the Avignon Theatre Festival. His films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, and the Warsaw International Film Festival, where his film Yuri's Day received the Grand Prix.[]

History

In February 2014, Moscow’s Gogol Theatre reopened as the Gogol Center with a season that included performances of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol and [Hamlet]] by William Shakespeare

In May 2017, Russia’s Investigative Committee ordered police to raid the Center. The Center's Directory, Kirill Serebrennikov was detained for questioning. On 23 May, police attributed the cause of the raid and detention of its Director to an investigation of embezzlement of budget funds.

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Dmitry Shuttles
19 January 2014
The theater offers the variety of modern revisions for classic plays and a lively updating list of modern stagings. There are also a café and a book-store on the ground floor.
Mic
29 January 2018
It is undoubtedly the best theatre and performance venue in Moscow, IMHO it is one of the best in Europe
J Musicals
16 May 2013
The theatre opens the new 2013/2014 season with the Russian premiere of the smash-hit musical 'Spring Awakening'.
Alexander Piluguina
26 August 2014
Cafe, plays, repertoire and the new concept of what the theater should represent in the 21st century
Angelina Efremova
26 June 2018
Amazing atmosphere, awesome actors and beautiful plays
MENU Portugal
23 March 2014
Cool space! In previously industrial area now its all about art and bein cool
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