After a sold-out run in 2024, Theater 86's production of The Master and Margarita, Or, The Devil Comes to Moscow is back in New York City for a strictly limited engagement!
Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's cult classic novel and adapted by Jean-Claude van Itallie, this captivating show was previously named a Critic's Recommendation by Vulture of New York Magazine. Charles Isherwood of The Wall Street Journal hailed it as "maliciously inventive" and "enjoyably over the top."
Written in secrecy during the darkest period of Stalin's reign, this cult masterpiece is part love story, part phantasmagoria, and part biting satire. On a hot spring day, the Devil pays a visit to Moscow. His retinue includes a naked witch, a fanged assassin, a vodka swigging black cat, and a slew of other dazzling characters who soon wreak havoc among the cultural elite. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a tortured writer who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge inside a lunatic asylum - and his lover, Margarita, who decides to sell her soul to save him.
Performed in English.
Stage Adaptation by Jean-Claude van Itallie
Directed by Aleksey Burago
Set Paintings by Valery Yershov
Featuring Michael Donaldson, Can Deniz Erzaim, Obid, Sarah O'Donnell, Ariel Polanco, Tom Schubert, Mark K. Simmons, Natasha Skutka, Elena Weintraub and Di Zhu
