Performing Arts Events
A full listing of performing arts events hosted by the Russian American Cultural Center.

- HAPPENING where she will perform poetry in Russian and in English and show her recent paintings and drawings.
- Saturday, January 14, 2017 | 2 pm
- Tompkins Square Park Library

- Art series from March 10, 2015: Regina Khidekel introduces the works of contemporary art presented in the galleries of Chelsea and New Museum.
- March 10 | 7:30 PM
- TV Kultura

- DID YOU KNOW? In 1987, Billy Joel brought the first fully staged high energy rock show to Russia, with 3 stadium shows in both Moscow and Leningrad.
- Available now!

- A series at The Met puts this period into context with conversations and performances, including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
- November 9, 2013, 7:00 pm
- Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

- A new Russian-language opera by Polina Nazaykinskaya, conducted by Juventas Artistic Director Lidiya Yankovskaya.
- August 21, 2013 to August 24, 2013
- CSV Flamboyan Theater

- New York-based playwright Adam Kraar has constructed a uniquely bilingual play in English and Russian, directed by Vladimir Rovinsky.
- August 12, 2013
- 92nd Street Y, Buttenweiser Hall

- Working with the Danish set designer Mia Stensgaard and fielding a brilliant cast (including Simon Keenlyside in the title role), Holten will provide a fresh reading of Tchaikovsky's classic.
- April 14th, 2013
- National Opera Center

- An international theatrical endeavor that creates one-on-one experiences for New York audience members with performers on five continents.
- February 5, 2013 to February 28, 2013
- The Gershwin Hotel

- Traditional Russian songs, dances and elaborate costumes create a winder wonderland in this delightful children's extravaganza.
- December 22, 2012
- Whitman Theatre, Brooklyn College

- Presented by Regina Khidekel, RACC Director, Irina A. Olevsky, RACC Board Trustee and New York University Department of Russian and Slavic Studies.
- June 19, 2012
- New York University

- 2012 Victory Day Celebration!
- May 6, 2012
- Tatiana Celebration Hall

- I remember Uncle Vanya. He was...it was...so beautiful and sad, but...funny...Yes...What a funny beautiful strange play.
- April 26, 2012 to May 19, 2012
- HERE Arts Center

- Do not miss watching all of your favorite dancers perform shows in this year's must-see spectacular!
- April 13, 2012
- Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center

- DRESS REHEARSAL | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНАЯ РЕПЕТИЦИЯ
- January 28, 2012 and January 29, 2012
- Lang Hall at Hunter College

- Яркое событие нового театрального сезона! Антон Крылов представляет легендарный мюзикл Бременские музыканты.
- January 21, 2011 and Jan 22, 2011
- Whitman Theater

- Singing and narrating, Ms. Scuibba, a riveting presence, will join the orchestra in this trailblazing work.
- June 10, 2011
- Alice Tully Hall

- Нью-Йоркский театр "Хаверим", полюбившийся зрителям нашумевшим спектаклем Ктуба или Свидетельство о браке...
- June 2, 2011 to June 5, 2011
- Connelly Theater

- A harsh look at the demands of artistic and personal integrity, not to mention taking more than a few swipes at American consumerism...
- April 22, 2011
- Dorothy Strelsin Theatre

- For all of us the Victory Day is a very personal day – our parents were fighting the war for us to be born.
- May 8, 2011
- Tatiana Restaurant, Brooklyn

- Watch a world champion chess player, now journalist, unravel the complexities of Russia’s cultural and geopolitical landscape.
- May 1, 2011
- The Morgan Library & Museum

- Communal Celebration with Rustem Galich, Natalia O'jan, the RACC guest actor from Canada, Yura Ruzhyev and his CABARET show.
- December 25, 2010
- National Restaurant, Brooklyn

- Vicky is a nationally touring comedian with no limits.
- November 20, 2010
- Triad Theater - NYC

- Join Ensemble du Monde in celebrating the opening of its 2010/11 Season on Saturday October 2, 2010 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Center for the Arts.
- October 2, 2010
- Merkin Concert Hall

- "Demon," presented with English subtitles to the multicultural audiences of New York.
- June 15, 2010
- Kings Bay YM-YMHA

- RACC Community Performance Series
- May 10, 2010
- Kings Bay Y Theater

- Over three extraordinary weeks the Philharmonic performs the largest single-composer festival in history.
- April 21, 2012 to April 24, 2010
- Avery Fisher Hall

- Russian American Cultural Center, Rustem Galich Production Center and Davidzon Radio salon-Theatre present the "Russian Farinelli" project.
- February 12, 2010 to February 25, 2010
- Various

- "Holiday Season Celebration – Traditional Communal Gathering"
- December 25, 2009

- Domra and Bayan (Russian folk percussion instruments)
- December 19, 2009
- Long Island Bard's Club ZUS

- Rustem Galitch and Sergei Pobedinsky
- December 18, 2009
- Golden Age Freehold Day Care

- Alexander Pushkin's Little Tragedies consists of four short lyrical verse plays about human nature's inherent contradictions.
- November 3, 2009 to November 14, 2009
- Baryshnikov Arts Center

- Mr. Aristov and Mr. Huang are winners of the 2008 Moscow International Liszt Piano Competition.
- September 24, 2009
- Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.

- Featuring students and alumni of The Juilliard School, an evening of music devoted to the renowned Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
- September 24, 2009
- Ana Tzarev Gallery

- On the banks of the mighty Dnieper River, a sweeping love story unfolds set to Sergei Prokofiev's glorious score.
- June 1, 2009 to June 6, 2009
- Metropolitan Opera House

- Featuring Nina Beilina and members of Bachanalia with guest narrator Robert Sherman.
- March 25, 2009

- For the first time the celebration of Hanukkah will take place at 1,410-seats Millennium Theatre as a large communal event.
- December 25, 2008
- Millennium Theatre

- Mikhail Evtukhov, the soloist of Moscow Shalom Theatre, singing rabbi Pinches Bobrovsky, Klezmer Band & dancing on the scene and in the theatre hall.
- December 25, 2008
- Millennium Theatre

- This monumental production of Prokofiev's opera includes more than 65 solo roles and a depiction of one of the largest land battles in European history.
- December 22, 26, 28, 2007 and January 3, 2008
- Metropolitan Opera

- Pinkhas Bobrovsky, "Song performance."
- December 21, 2008
- Kings Bay Y Theater

- "Demon," by M. Lermontov
- December 13, 2008 and December 20, 2008
- Tribeca Performing Art Center

- Based on a poetry book by Nikolai Ognivtsev.
- November 8, 2008
- Great Falls Performing Art Center

- Russian 18th century opera by Fomin, "Orpheus."
- October 25, 2008 to October 26, 2008
- St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

- Georgii Garanyan (saxophone) and Valerii Ponomaryov (tuba).
- September 19, 2008
- Millennium Theater

- Dasha Fursey's Balloon & Bag of Wishes performance launched from the breathtaking overlook at Sound South.
- August 2, 2008
- South Sound

- Yuri Entin's songs have appeared in some unforgettable cult cartoons such as “Bremenskie Musikanti”, "Winter in Prostokvashino", "Blue Pup", "Nu, Pogody!" and many others.
- April 6, 2008 to April 19, 2008

- Gesher Theater of Israel, Cocktail Reception and Introduction.
- March 18, 2008

- Featuring principal of the Bolshoi Ballet Sergei Filin.
- February 27, 2008 to March 2, 2008
- BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music

- Based in New York City, Odd Appetite is the duo of performers/composers Ha-Yang Kim (cello) and Nathan Davis (percussion).
- September 28, 2007 to September 30, 2007

- Elena Stroganova, Elena Liberman (violin), Natalia Medvedovskaya (piano), Felix Yablonovskiy (director).
- September 23, 2007
- Kings Bay YM-YMHA

- RACC Performance Series.
- August 9, 2007
- Performing Arts Center

- Two performers, an amateur and a professional are rehearsing an "unscripted" love story in a storefront window.
- April 10, 2007
- Chashama Storefront Space

- Based on letters between Anton Chechov and Olga Knipper.
- November 4, 2006
- Davidzon Radio Theatre

- A conversation with Michael Ferraro and Regina Khidekel.
- July 29, 2006
- The Workshop Mainstage Theatre

- Songs and Instrumental Music from the Republic of Georgia.
- June 4, 2006

- Bring your friends for a few hours of extraordinary theatre accompanied by a meeting with the director and the cast.
- October 17, 2005
- Sargent Theatre

- Tribute to the World Year of Physics 2005 – Scientific Research in the Spirit of Albert Einstein.
- July 7, 2005
- Davidzon Radio Theatre

- With live jazz (Vladimir Volkov, double bass; Vladimir Tarasov, drums).
- 2005

- New Voices in Russian Theatre: Marina Shron stages a reading of her mythical work, "Time and the Beast."
- 2005

- Yale Repertory Theatre presents the limited-engagement, world premiere of the Anton Chekhov story "Rothschild’s Fiddle."
- January 14, 2004 to January 31, 2004
- Yale Repertory Theatre

- An Evening of Music, Art and Architecture with the distinguished Russian cellist.
- May 21, 2002

- NY Noise: A New Series of Performance and Conversation.
- April 1, 2002