Mikhail Levitin is a famous Russian theater director, writer, teacher, and People's Artist of Russia. He is known to viewers for his author's cycles of programs on the Kultura channel about the life and work of famous actors, directors and playwrights.Mikhail Levitin has been the artistic director of the Hermitage Theatre in Moscow for four decades. And even earlier, in 1978, he made his debut as a novelist, published in the magazines "Yunost", "Neva", "October", "Znamya", "Theater".Today Mikhail Levitin is the author of 28 books. He is a member of the Moscow Writers' Union, twice winner of the Moscow Prize for Literature. Mikhail Levitin's new book consists of two stories: the story of the theater "One Such" and the story of the circus "I want you to like me."Reflections on the essence of things are revealed to the reader in a peculiar literary form: "I'm afraid of heights. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have an imagination. You can always convince yourself that there is solid ground under your feet. You just need to rest your back against something solid, like a wall, and move sideways along it. Then suddenly you can feel protected."