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GEO Photos, Tolstoy in English, Benois de la Dance ?€“ What to Do in Moscow on Wednesday

World Press Photo 2015, GEO Magazine nature photos and retrospective by Sergei Maximishin to June 13. ArtPlay. artplay.ru

World Press Photo 2015, GEO Magazine nature photos to June 13. ArtPlay. 10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ulitsa. Metro Kurskaya, Chkalovskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 495-620-0882, artplay.ru.

Benois de la Dance: concert, featuring winners of the Benois Prizes from various years. Bolshoi Theater Main Stage. 1 Teatralnaya Ploshchad. Metro Teatralnaya. 495-455-5555. At 7 p.m.

Moscow Academy of Choreography Graduates in concert. Bolshoi Theater New Stage. (See address above) 7 p.m.

Family Happiness (Semeinoye Schastye): Pyotr Fomenko's sensitive adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella about the rise and fall of a marriage. English, German and French subtitles available. Fomenko Workshop Theater. 7 p.m.


Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Skazki Gofmana): Offenbach's opera based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's stories about his three loves. Performed in French. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. 17 Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Metro Tverskaya, Chekhovskaya. 495-723-7325. At 7 p.m.

Foreign-Language Movies

She's Funny That Way (Miss Perepolokh, 2014): Peter Bogdanovich's comedy about a married Broadway director who falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and seeks to advance her career. Stars Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots and Quentin Tarantino.

35MM. 47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142. At 11 a.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya. In the Arkadia mall, 8 Sredny Ovchinnikovsky Pereulok. Metro Novokuznetskaya. 495-916-9169. At 11:25 a.m., 3:25 and 7:55 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

The Age of Adaline (Vek Adaline, 2015): Lee Toland Krieger's romantic drama starring Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman and Harrison Ford. After miraculously remaining 29 for almost eight solitary decades, a chance encounter with a charismatic philanthropist reignites a woman's passion for life and romance.

35MM (See address above) At 3:05 and 11 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

GUM Hall. 3 Red Square, line 3, floor 3. At 12:30, 2:50, 7 and 9 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles.

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