For three years, since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Theatre Novi Most has been gathering stories from members of the Ukrainian diaspora living in Minnesota.

“That means anyone that's a refugee or an immigrant, even third-generation immigrants, some of them new arrivals,” says Lisa Channer, co-artistic director. “Some are also members of the Ukrainian military, soldiers who had come here briefly to get prosthetic care because they lost limbs in the war.”

Those stories are the heart of the new play “An Ocean Away,” which opens tonight and runs through Nov. 8 at the Center for Performing Arts in Minneapolis.

Theatre Novi Most, a Minneapolis theater company centered on people from Eastern Europe and the “post-Soviet diaspora,” partnered with the internationally renowned Belarusian playwr

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