Literary great Nikolai Gogol was an early magic realist. His stories peeked bleakly into the failures of the everyday human heart, but they boasted as well the brush strokes of an illusionist ever ...

THERE’S MUSIC and movement but it’s not a dance. There are no words, and yet it’s a play. What exactly is “The Overcoat,” the Canadian import that opens American Conservatory Theater’s 39th season? To ...

The friendship between two men in London’s Jewish East End forms the heart of “The Bespoke Overcoat,” now playing at the Pacific Resident Theater in Venice. The 1953 play was written by Wolf Mankowitz ...

Akaky Akakyevich is a humble bureaucrat lost in the dismal ranks of the 19th Century Russian civil service. But when he buys a brand new overcoat, things begin to look up. Nikolai Gogol's six-part ...

The Overcoat: Drama. Adapted from the short story by Nikolai Gogol and directed byMorris Panych and Wendy Gorling. (Through Sept. 25. CanStage at American Conservatory Theater, Geary Theater, 415 ...

The Bushnell is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a brave new undertaking that cries out (silently) to be seen by lovers of theater, dance and film: the vivid and exciting CanStage production of ...

Let’s set the scene for you... Here's the plot: "Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new ...

Nikolai Gogol is one of Russia’s most beloved writers. Gogol wrote short stories and plays, and died at the young age of 43. Your local library has a wide selection of materials both on or about him.

In his short, tormented life, the Russian novelist Nikolai Vassilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) managed to write for the ages. His oeuvre is huge. Among the familiar masterworks are "Dead Souls," the first ...

In this hyperliterary city, where Dostoevsky tours steer visitors to the supposed site of Raskolnikov’s savage crime, where the Nabokov Museum draws modernists to the émigré great’s childhood home, ...