Joan Acocella: Mikhail Baryshnikov and experimental Russian theatre.
Russia was ground zero of the revolution in theatre in the early twentieth century. Meyerhold, Tairov, Stanislavski, Nemirovich-Danchenko: they shot off rockets year after year. Under the U.S.S.R., their popularity decreased—Meyerhold was killed by a firing squad—but experimental theatre did not die. Indeed, it hatched . . .