IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine—A crowd of guests from an adjacent hotel filed into the bomb shelter in the cavernous basement of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Academic Ukrainian Musical Drama Theater on March 20. The crowd filled up the dimly lit space, sitting on the makeshift tiered benches in the back. The fogger machines, theatrical lighting rigs, and sound equipment were barely discernible from the bunker’s piping, ductwork, and wiring. In the early afternoon the day before, someone flipped off the bomb shelter’s original lights and a mix of stage hands and actors criss-crossed the darkened space to add spotlights, the laser stage light, and the fogger. Young men and women in costumes from another era emerged from the darkness and disappeared again in a chaotic rush to set the stage and transform the shelter into a theater space. At the foot of a steep industrial staircase that drops some 20 feet into the …
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