Presented by Moscow Nights, the group, under the direction of Natasha Ramer, will perform at the 15th annual International Chekhov Theater Festival “Melikhovskaya Vesna,” in Moscow.

Moscow is worse than Chicago in the 1920s, complete with mafia, hate crimes, gun and drug smuggling, gambling, extortion, kidnappings, murder, rape, robberies and arson.

Michael O’Donnell reviews “Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story—How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War” by Nigel Cliff.

Presented by Moscow Nights, the group, under the direction of Natasha Ramer, will perform at the 15th annual International Chekhov Theater Festival “Melikhovskaya Vesna,” in Moscow.