Brush up your Russian.

Folks: dust off your Russian dictionaries and run to BAM to see Twelfth Night, or What You Will, or The Greatest Romantic Comedy Ever Written. It's a stellar production.

My BAM subscription this year is off to an auspicious start. And it's official: not a single production I'm seeing there this year is in English. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just wasn't what I expected. For some reason, I assumed that this Twelfth Night would be a British production, as it's directed by Declan Donnellan, artistic director of the English company Cheek by Jowl. Turns out, it's part of the Chekhov International Festival, and features an astounding Russian cast doing Shakespeare, in Russian. Go see it. It will amaze and enthrall.