The Theatre: Report from Moscow

To U. S. theatre folk who go to Russia to profit artistically rather than financially, the U. S. S. R. seems to be indeed the millennium of the show business. Audiences seem to like everything they get. The spirit of experimentation is vigorous and widespread. And what puts the golden cap of perfection on the whole situation is that the State pays all the bills.

Of the countless U. S. theatricians who have reported on the dramatic wonders in the Soviet Union, none has brought back a more thoroughgoing account of what...