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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Can This Man Stop Lying? by Ellen Barry and Dave Sanders

Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

A Playwright’s Voice, Silenced in a Flash of Terrorism in Moscow by Ellen Barry

Anna Mashutina was on her way to accept an award when she was killed along with dozens of other people in a terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport.

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt by Ellen Barry

Vassily Sigarev, whose play “Black Milk” is now running in New York, tells violent and disturbing tales of life in post-Soviet Russia.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Mocking Vladimir Putin With Poetic Flair in Russia by Ellen Barry

The “Citizen Poet” project — conceived by three friends after a night of heavy drinking — has tapped into the sour response of many Russians to Vladimir V. Putin’s plan to return t…

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A Playwright’s Voice, Silenced in a Flash of Terrorism in Moscow by Ellen Barry

Anna Mashutina was on her way to accept an award when she was killed along with dozens of other people in a terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport.

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