On November 17, 2009, the Alexandrinsky Theaters performance Man Equals Man will be shown on the stage of the Chekhov MKhT under the frames of the Moscow International Stanislavsky Season Festival; Director Yury Butusov staged this performance after B. Brechts play "Mann ist Mann." Yury Butusov has been awarded with Stanislavsky Award for his performance Waiting for Godot. The Stanislavsky Season Festival is taking place from October 30 to November 24; its program presents performances: Medea by J. Anouih after Senecas plays (Director Kama Ginkas); the Cherry Orchard by A. Chekhov (Director Mark Zakharov); Isabellas Room by J. Lauwers and A. Bonnem (Director Jan Lauwers, Belgium); The Potudan River by A. Platonov (Director Sergey Zhenovach); The Dolls House by G. Ibsen (Director Lee Bruer, USA); Metabolic by A. Pessyani (Director A. Pessyani);  All That Fall by S. Beckett (Director Aleksey Levinsky), The Seagull by A. Chekhov (Director Christian Smeds, Finland); The Ardennes Forest Tales by Y. Kim (Director Pyotr Fomenko), Idiot by Fedor Dostoyevsky (Director Eimuntas Nyakroshus, Lithuania); I Miss You by A. Volodin (Director Galina Byzgu).  
The Award Ceremony will take place at the Pyotr Fomenko Studio Theater on November 24.  Head of the Research and Creative Department of the Alexandrinsky Theater Professor A. Chepurov is one of the 2009 laureates (in the nomination of Theater Studies and Critics): he was awarded for a series of books about theater; another laureate is Artist Alexander Shishkin (in the nomination Artistic Decoration of Performance) awarded for the scenography of musical and drama performances.