He is also a composer for theater, film and television, including three productions put on by the New Stage Theater Company in New York, among them "Garden of Delights" in 2012 at the Theater for the New City.
"[Iksanov] has done a lot, completing the reconstruction and opening the new stage," Medinsky said at a news conference at the Bolshoi.
With government wiretapping in the news, the movie remains quite relevant, as does the new stage adaptation by Kate Harris.
The new stage version, by playwright Richard Greenberg, opened this week at the Cort Theatre in New York.
The new stage is 31 feet deep.
"We're happy with the new stage.
But don't call the new stage a black-box theater.
The new stage Mr. Burke installed may be ruined.
Through next Sunday in the New Stage Theater.
"Old laws no longer match the new stage of our development," said Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, the president.
William Shakespeare, no less, has been appearing on billboards advertising the new Stage tower in Shoreditch.
