1970 at the theater

• January 29 - Jerome Robbins ’s ballet “ In the Night ” premiered at the Lincoln Center.
• April 22 - premiere of Leonid Rakhmanov ’s play “ Restless Old Age ” ( Lenkom Theater , Moscow).
• Director Peter Brooke directed Midsummer Night's Dream on an empty white stage.

• March 22 in Volgograd opened the Volgograd Theater of Young Spectators .

Born

• January 9 - theater and film actor Yuri Anpilogov .
• February 18 , Minsk - theater and film actress Alla Kluka .
• March 8 - Anastasia Kolpikova , actress of the Taganka Theater.
• April 17 , Moscow - theater and film actor, director Vladimir Skvortsov .
• June 27 - theater and film actor Rostislav Bershauer .
• August 6 , Tyumen Region - theater and film actress Marina Mogilevskaya .
• October 23 - actor and director Alexey Agranovich .

Died

• May 4 , Moscow - Kasyan Goleizovsky , ballet dancer, choreographer, artist and dance theorist.
• July 1 , Moscow - theater and film actor Peter Repnin .
• July 22 , Moscow - actor of the Moscow Art Theater, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1963) Yuri Koltsov .
• August 10 , Moscow - playwright, poet and screenwriter, Stalin Prize laureate Nikolai Erdman .
• August 25 , Moscow - actor, director and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR (1948) Vasily Toporkov .
• October 1 , Moscow - opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR (1944) Andrei Ivanov .
• October 5 , Moscow - theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1967) Vladimir Vladislavsky .

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