The third episode of The Romanoffs centers around a show within a show. In "House of Special Purpose," Christina Hendricks plays Olivia Rogers, an actress who has been flown in to star as Tsarina ...

The story is set in a small, Ukrainian village, and takes place at Christmas time. As ACT ONE begins, we meet a woman called Solokha, a sort of self-styled witch. She's the mother of the young man ...

What was it that a tsar’s wife couldn’t do? It turns out, quite a lot. Walking in the fields or picking flowers, going out to the country, visiting her relatives at their home – all of this was ...

Have you ever wondered what lies inside those gift-wrapped boxes that adorn department store windows in the run-up to Christmas? Their purpose is to entice consumers through the door but they work on ...

On July 17, 1918, the reigning members of Russia's last ruling royal family, the Romanovs—Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Nicholas was not the strong leader that was characteristic of his father, ...

Historical maven Erickson (The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette) delivers a top-notch narrative featuring beautiful and courageous Tatiana Romanov, daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra, during the final ...

There’s nothing to frighten the children or horses in Francesca Zambello’s ravishingly colourful, but at the same time rather dull, new production of Cherevichki (translated here as The Tsarina’s ...