Up front / Tom Sellar -- Russian theater in the twenty-first century: a critic's journey / John Freedman -- Russia's new drama: from Togliatti to Moscow / Yana Ross -- Oxygenating theater: a translator's note / Sasha Dugdale -- Oxygen / Ivan Vyrypaev, translated by Sasha Dugdale -- Generation vexed: Danila Privalov / Five twenty-five / Danila Privalov, translated by Yana Ross -- "My vast country": Russia's regional theaters in transition / Nina Karpova, translated by Yana Ross -- St. Petersburg's new wave / Marina Dmitrievskaya, translated by Yana Ross -- AKHE Theater: portfolio -- Art is not for fear: Russia's new directors in conversation / Dmitrii Chernyakov, Nina Chusova, Yelena Gremina, Mindaugas Karbauskis, Viktor Ryzhakov, Krill Serebrennikov, interviewed by Tom Sellar and Yana Ross, translated by Yana Ross -- The information machine: letters to Nemirovich-Danchenko / Olga Bokshanskaya, introduced by Anatoly Smeliansky, translated by Ryan McKittrick and Julia Smeliansky -- Productions -- Books