Moscow on the Potomac: Studio Theatre takes a new look at an old country.(connections)(artistic director Joy Zinoman, Washington, D.C.)(Interview)

American Theatre, March, 2005 by Wren, Celia

Winter may have spluttered out in most parts of the country, but in Washington, D.C., the Studio Theatre's "Russian Winter" still has a couple of blizzards socked away. March and April will add two more productions to the Slavicthemed repertoire that has sleeted its way through the company's 2004-05 landmark season--and the word "landmark" is used advisedly, since the season happens to have seen the opening of Studio's new four-theatre complex, the result of a $13-million expansion.

But since freshly minted venues are not in short supply these days in the nation's capital, which has been in the throes of a theatre-building boom of late, it is Studio's Russian Winter concept that bears particular note. The novel eight-month season-within-a-season kicked off...

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