The joys of creating on a usable past: ThreePenny Theatre Company’s forthcoming premiere production adapting Mikhail Kuzmin’s 1929 play The Death of Nero
During his lifetime, Mikhail Kuzmin produced an extraordinary output, including poetry, novels, critical essays, musical scores, and plays. However, in the mid 1920s, as Stalin tightened his grip on the new Soviet state, Kuzmin became persona non grata in the eyes of the regime and published virtually nothing during the last 10 years of his … Read more