Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast, May 21, 2012Russia’s semi-underground theater troupe Teatr.doc is playing a prominent role in the country’s opposition politics these days, even though their plays are practically impossible to find. The theater’s black-box makeshift stage lies hidden in a basement, less than a mile away from the Kremlin. It barely fits a hundred spectators a night, and more than half of the audience must sit on the floor. It’s also highly secretive: no posters advertise Doc’s plays on Moscow’s streets, and the only way to learn about the troupe is to search the Internet. Yet the audiences still crowd in to watch a rotating program of performances tackling contemporary Russian life in all its grittiness...