Michael Tabor's Gotham Stakes (gr. III) winner Mayakovsky, set to start in Saturday's Santa Anita Derby (gr. I), worked a half-mile in :48 1/5, breezing, over a fast Santa Anita main track Tuesday ...

Legendary poet/playwright and off-off Broadway pioneer Murray Mednick will direct the New York City premiere of his newest work, Mayakovsky and Stalin, at the Cherry Lane Theatre for a four-week run ...

Yesterday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Gotham Stakes at the Big A, run at a mile around one turn, was billed as a two-horse race between a pair of classy colts making their first start of the year: the speedy ...

Two love stories. Two suicides. Padua Playwrights presents the world premiere of Mayakovsky and Stalin, written and directed by legendary poet/playwright Murray Mednick (The Gary Plays), opening at ...

Plans to run Mayakovsky in the Kentucky Derby have been abandoned and a workout scheduled for Wednesday cancelled by trainer Patrick Biancone. Biancone, who had said there was a "50-50" chance that ...

Though Mayakovsky turns 125 this year, his words continue to resonate with our lives today. However, he also tried his hand at acting - and he wasn’t half bad. Almost two meters tall, handsome ...

July 7 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the brooding James Dean of Futurism, and while his despair eclipsed his enormous talent, he lives on in verse.