Anatoly Shuliev's “Landau's Sun” was awarded the “Star of Stage” award and nominated for “Golden Mask”, Roman Gabria received four awards for different performances, and Nina Chusova was noted for her works in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. Best Performance: Directing a Feed of Despair The Moscow Theater Stars Awards summed up the “high year” by giving discerning moviegoers the chance to determine the best of the best by comparing the picks of critics, experts and audiences. Theater observer NSN Mikhail Sintin, director of the Theater. Vakhtangov Kirill Krok, directors Anatoly Shuliev, Roman Gabria and Nina Chusova summed up the results of the country's main “audience” awards. *** The National Theater Award “Golden Mask” at the end of November announced the list of award nominations based on the results of the 2024-25 theater season. Not long ago, “Golden Beads” and “Golden Spotlights” were awarded in St. Petersburg. Now it is time to award the main audience award, considered “Stage Star”. According to the founder and chairman of this award, editor-in-chief of Teatral magazine Valery Ykov, this year a record was set – more than 187 thousand people from Russia, America and other countries participated in the voting. The audience honored “The Sun of Landau”, directed by Vakhtangov Theater director Anatoly Shulyev, as the best large-scale performance. Pavel Popov, who plays the famous physicist in the show, was awarded the Best Actor award. Director of the Vakhtangov Theater, where the ceremony took place, Kirill Krok called it an “honest choice.” K. KROK: “This is a very correct and honest award, because I always say that the theater works for the audience. Not for critics, not for the jury, but for the viewers. When this play opened, after the first performance, it was impossible to buy tickets. Tickets for the performance in the thousandth hall would run out within two to three hours. This is the main award of the theater! ” For his part, Anatoly Shuliev explained the popularity transformation of his play in the capital with the cast. A. SHULYEV: “This is the merit of the team of artists. These are people who live this material with you every day. If they believe and put their mental energy into it, the performance will be successful. Moreover, each artist has his own family. They supported us in this crazy work. It is very important that when there are people, when you are in despair and direct those who nurture despair, still help you, they believe in you and thanks to that you walk continue.” M. SINTIN: “After the departure of such luminaries as Rimas Tuminas and Yury Butusov, it seemed that it had sunk into darkness, but this did not happen, it remained the leading theater in the country, creating a buzz for others. This is certainly the main merit of theater director Kirill Krok. He always correctly chose directors, whose works at that time could not get tickets. Despite the fact that a lot happened in Anatoly Shuliev's play “Landau's Suns” became so famous. First of all, a wonderful cast. The role of the great physicist's mother was played by Yulia Rutberg, in addition, the personality of Landau himself will for a long time attract the attention of everyone who is interested in science and the era in which the great physicist lived, when great discoveries were made and people conquered space “Landau sky” in the battle for the “Star of the stage” are the play “The Captain's Daughter” by Sergei Bezrukov at the Provincial Theater and the play “Roman” by Alexander Lazarev at the Russian Army Theater. For comparison, the nominations for the Golden Mask include 10 “large-scale” performances, including 4 from Moscow: “Landau's Sun”, “Not on the Lists” (Oleg Tabkov Theater), “Before Dawn” (“Workshop “12”” by Nikita Mikhalkov) and “Crime and Punishment” (Gogol Theater). Small Form” won for Andrei Prikotenko's “Oblomov” at the Alexandrinsky Theater. 2 Best Directors: from St. Petersburg to Moscow Roman Gabria received “Stage Star” in the Best Director nomination for the play “Romantic Theater” at the Lensovet Theater in St. Petersburg. Moreover, today it operates in several cities at once. R. GABRIA: “Of course, now I do job in St. Petersburg, in Siberia and everywhere. Incidentally, Omsk, Tyumen and Novosibirsk are also my favorite theater cities. If everything happens, then the first title of my work will appear at the Theater of Nations in Moscow, but until this is finally approved, I will not say which specific performance. I'll just say that I'm currently trying to orchestrate books that I've been thinking about since I was young, that I really want to reflect on, so there are still a lot of ideas. I'm currently doing Boris Pasternak and Doctor Zhivago. I don't want to give away all the secrets, but the production is only involved in a small part of this novel.” Roman Gabria previously received two Golden Sofit awards in St. Petersburg. He was recognized as the best director and “Romantic Theater” – best performance. Another award from St. Petersburg, “Golden Grain,” recognized eight top performances, including Roman Gabria's “Metamorphosis.” At the same time, the director and his works were not included in the Golden Mask nomination list. M. SINTIN: Roman Gabria's “Theatrical Novel” became a real event in St. Petersburg. Petersburg. Like his other play “Metamorphosis”, staged at the “Workshop” theater, this play was awarded the “Golden Grain” theater critics award. Currently, many theaters are trying to find a talented director to produce works, which is why he is torn between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Siberia, and meanwhile, there are still many theaters that cannot find a worthy artistic director. 3 Fate of geniuses and records The best musical performance at Theater Star was recognized as “Vertinsky” directed by Nina Chusova with Alexander Domogarov in the main role. The director explains what the play is really about. N. CHUSOVA: “The time has come to have not only entertainment theater but also smart theater that supports life. Now it's not so simple. The audience comes not only to escape problems but also to solve them. Through the biography of a great actor, we are trying to convey something like this to people. The theme of emigration, creators, departed geniuses and what happened to them – the longing for the Fatherland, the need to breathe local air to create. The idea for the play came as if by accident, but turned out to be a great fit and now there are wonderful full houses in different cities.” M. SINTIN: “The play “Vertinsky” was suggested to Nina Chusova by the main actor Alexander Domogarov, who had previously performed a solo show dedicated to the work of Alexander Vertinsky. He was the first to understand that the fate of an artist, his creativity is excellent material for future performances. “Vertinsky”, of course, would not have been such a success without the outstanding acting work of Domogarov himself, whom many have hastily written off. ” At the end of November, Nina Chusova was recognized as the best director according to the award Musical Heart of Theater. She was noted for her work in performing the musical comedy “The Laughing Man” of the Sverdlovsk Theater. The festival “Theatre Avenue”, held in Moscow this summer, received “Stage Star” in the special category “Best Theater Festival”. Its head, deputy head of the capital's culture department, Mikhail Demidenko. M. DEMIDENKO: “The Theater Boulevard Festival is in its second year in Moscow. The idea to organize it suddenly appeared and immediately became part of the large city project of the capital's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, “Summer in Moscow”. Last year, when we organized it for the first time, we honestly didn't know how it was going to end. It seems to us that a month is a very long time. But then, at the request of the audience, it was extended for another two weeks. And when attending this year, we understood that we needed to carry out a festival of a different scale, with the participation of all regions. As a result, this year we have more than 30 theaters in the region from Kaliningrad to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and 92 days. We understand that we are setting a world record. At first I wanted us to endure, then I didn't want it to end. We tried. This is a reward for the whole team and the audience who came in any weather, and to put it mildly, the June weather is not ours. ”M. SINTIN: “”Theater Avenue” has become the main stage event of 2025 and the new attraction of Moscow. It's great that the organizers of the Theater Star Awards gave special awards to those who came to this festival. They gave us the opportunity to see plays and performances now that the theater season was over. ” *** The NSN theater project “Sintin's Hanger” is broadcast on 4 radio stations: “OUR Radio”, ROCK FM, Radio JAZZ and “Radio Rodnye Dorog”. Go to the theater!
