Friday the 25th
Before and After (Do i Posle): Yury Lyubimov's collage of Silver Age Russian poetry. Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.
Floor Covering (Polovoye Pokrytiye): Olga Subbotina's staging of a play by the brothers Vadim and Oleg Presnyakov. Playwright and Director Center at the Vysotsky Center. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion (Zolotoi Lev): Chinese circus artists in a show. Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
The Maestro of Dance (Uchitel Tantsev): Yury Yeryomin stages Lope de Vega's play. Mossoviet Theater. 7 p.m.
E'Phaedra: This multimedia interactive show staged by Zhivile Montvilaite, combines various interpretations of the Greek myth and is followed by a dance party. Sad Ermitazh Shchukin Stage. 9 p.m. Info. and reservations 747-8979.
The Lady With the Lapdog (Dama s Sobachkoi): This exquisite work by Kama Ginkas dramatizes Chekhov's classic story of love found and lost. Theater Yunogo Zritelya. 7 p.m.
Quartet: Grigory Siyatvinda stars in an entertaining and lively comedy based on Molière's plays "The Forced Marriage" and "Love's the Best Doctor." Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet: the Russian version of G‘rard Presgurvic's musical. Operetta Theater. 7 p.m.
The White Guard (Belaya Gvardiya): Sergei Zhenovach's stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.
Twelfth Night (Dvenadtsataya Noch): William Shakespeare's romantic comedy directed by Declan Donnellan stars Alexander Feklistov and Igor Yasulovich. Pushkin Theater. 7 p.m. Reservations 929-7057, 229-7721.

Saturday the 26th
A Theatrical Romance (Teatralny Roman): Yury Lyubimov's stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel. Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
Poprishchin: Anatoly Goryachev's one-actor performance based on Gogol's story "The Notes of a Madman." Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.
A Profitable Post (Dokhodnoye Mesto): Konstantin Raikin's strikingly modern version of Alexander Ostrovsky's drama about corruption and sexual politics. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet: (See Fri. listing.) Operetta Theater. 6 p.m.
Stop. Phantoms (Ostanovka. Prizraki): Dmitry Bozin and Alexandra Florinskaya play in Igor Selin's staging of Helmut Krausser. Playwright and Director Center at the Vysotsky Center. 7 p.m.
The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy): an adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic novel about the men in a family that is torn asunder by their passions for love, lust, truth and religion. Mayakovsky Theater. 7 p.m.
The Tower of Pisa (Pizanskaya Bashnya): Boris Milgram's sensitive and occasionally surrealistic production of Nadezhda Ptushkina's comedy about a marriage on the rocks. Stanislavsky Drama Theater. 7 p.m.

Sunday the 27th
A Plague o' Both Your Houses (Chuma Na Oba Vashi Doma): Grigory Gorin's comic "sequel" to "Romeo and Juliet." Mayakovsky Theater. 7 p.m.
Amadeus: Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart (Sergei Bezrukov) and Salieri (Oleg Tabakov) directed by Mark Rozovsky. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
Ladies' Day (Devichnik): Laura Shaine Cunningham's comedy, "Beautiful Bodies," about six friends celebrating the pregnancy of one of their number. Independent Theater Project Enterprise at the Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
Poprishchin: (See Sat. listing.) Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet: (See Fri. listing.) Operetta Theater. 6 p.m.
Stop. Phantoms: (See Sat. listing.) Vysotsky Center. 7 p.m.

Monday the 28th
Chantecler: Konstantin Raikin's song and dance show about a cocky rooster who gets his comeuppance in the barnyard. Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
We Play Schiller (Igrayem Shillera): a fine version of Schiller's tragedy "Mary Stuart" about the deadly confrontation between the feisty Queen of Scots and her cousin, Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Stars Marina Neyolova and Yelena Yakovleva. Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m.
Plasticine (Plastilin): Kirill Serebrennnikov directs Vasily Sigarev's play that tells of a teenage boy's tragic encounters with aimlessness, drugs and violence. Playwright and Director Center at the Vysotsky Center. 7 p.m.
Thick-Soled Shoes (Botinki Na Tolstoi Podoshve): Pyotr Gladilin's semi-mystical comedy about a galoshes rack that comes to life and attempts to save the failing marriage of the people in whose home it "lives." Art-Partner XXI Agency production at the Theater Kinoaktyora. 7 p.m.

Tuesday the 29th
An Ideal Husband (Idealny Muzh): Oscar Wilde's comedy staged by Andrei Zhitinkin. Tabakov Theater at the MMDM Theater Hall. 7 p.m.
Chantecler: (See Mon. listing.) Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
Don Juan: Mark Vail's updated version of Molière's play about the comic battles between the profligate Don Juan and his moral servant Sganarelle (Vladimir Vdovichenko and Grigory Siyatvinda). Art-Partner XXI Agency production at the Theater Kinoaktyora. 7 p.m.
Floor Covering: (See Fri. listing.) Vysotsky Center. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
The Last Day of Summer (Posledny Den Leta): Nikolai Skorik directs a play by the Durnenkov Brothers. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater New Stage. 7 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet: (See Fri. listing.) Operetta Theater. 7 p.m.
The Final Victim (Poslednyaya Zhertva): Alexander Ostrovsky's comedy features Oleg Tabakov and Marina Zudina in the leading parts. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.

Wednesday the 30th
Experiment: Seagull (Opyt: Chaika): Andrii Zholdak's unorthodox and intriguing version of Chekhov's play. Theater of Nations at the Maly Theater affiliate. 7 p.m.
Go and Stop Progress (Oberiuty) (Idite i Ostanovite Progress [Oberiuty]): Yury Lyubimov's staging on the themes of the early 20th-century Russian absurdist poets. Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
The Maestro of Dance: (See Fri. listing.) Mossoviet Theater. 7 p.m.
Poprishchin: (See Sat. listing.) Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.
The Last Day of Summer: (See Tues. listing.) Chekhov Moscow Art Theater New Stage. 7 p.m.
Rothschild's Fiddle (Skripka Rotshilda): Kama Ginkas directs his own adaptation of the Chekhov short story about an aging man tormented by the losses life brings. Theater Yunogo Zritelya. 7 p.m.
Quartet: (See Fri. listing.) Satirikon Theater. 7 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet: (See Fri. listing.) Operetta Theater. 7 p.m.
Striptease: Lyudmila Roshkovan's staging of Slawomir Mrozek's play. Chelovek Theater-Studio. 7 p.m.
The Marriage (Zhenitba): Sergei Artsibashev's staging of Gogol's play about a man who thinks he wants to marry, but would actually rather jump out a window. Stars Igor Kostolevsky, Mikhail Filippov and Yevgenia Simonova. Mayakovsky Theater. 7 p.m.
The Truth is Good but Happiness is Better (Pravda Khorosho, a Schastye Luchshe): Sergei Zhenovach's staging of Alexander Ostrovsky's play features excellent acting. Maly Theater. 7 p.m.

Thursday the 1st
Chonkin: Alexei Kiryushchenko's adaptation of the Vladimir Voinovich novel "The Extraordinary Adventures of the Soldier Ivan Chonkin," a farce depicting details of army and peasant life in the Soviet Union before and during the Second World War. Moscow Theater of Comedy at the Theater Kinoaktyora. 7 p.m.
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. 7 p.m.
E'Phaedra: (See Fri. listing.) Sad Ermitazh Shchukin Stage. 9 p.m. Info. and reservations 747-8979.
Poprishchin: (See Sat. listing.) Fomenko Studio. 7 p.m.
Uncle Vanya (Dyadya Vanya): Mindaugas Karbauskis' staging of Anton Chekhov's play. Tabakov Theater at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. 7 p.m.
Romeo and Juliet: (See Fri. listing.) Operetta Theater. 7 p.m.
Socrates/Oracle: Yury Lyubimov interprets the dialogues of Plato. Taganka Theater. 7 p.m.

and Beyond ...
Golden Lion: (See Fri. listing.) Estrada Theater. July 2 to 4, 7 p.m.
E'Phaedra: (See Fri. listing.) Sad Ermitazh Shchukin Stage. July 2 to 5, 9 p.m. Info. and reservations 747-8979.
Uncle Vanya: (See Thurs. listing.) Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. July 2, 7 p.m.