List of Moscow theaters and addresses

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The very first theaters appeared in Moscow in the 16th and 17th centuries. To date, there are more than 150 of them in the capital of our Motherland, including acting associations that work in various genres.

Theatres in Moscow

There are a huge number of them in the capital, both classic and modern, both familiar and unusual, original, which will be of interest to all viewers, and those that are understandable only to certain categories of the public. This article provides lists and addresses of theaters in Moscow, both the most famous, which are known even to foreign audiences, and those with which the general public is not very familiar.

List of theaters in Moscow

• Moscow operetta (Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 6);
• "Vernadsky, 13" (Prospect Vernadsky, 13);
• Chamber musical entreprise "Arbat-Opera";
• Classical Ballet Theatre, conducted by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev (Leningradsky Prospekt, 25);



• Musical Theater of National Art, director Vladimir Nazarov;

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  Actor's Theatre;

• Conceptual author's theater of Kirill Ganin;
• Theater of Nations (Petrovsky lane, 3);
• "ApARTe";
• Children's Variety Theatre;
• Chamber Puppet Theater (Bazhova Street, 9);
• Variety Theater (Bersenevskaya embankment, 20);
• Musical Folk Theatre;
• Firebird;
• named after Vladimir Mayakovsky (Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 19);
• "Complicity";
• Historical and ethnographic (Rudneva street, 3);
• Children's Musical Theater directed by Gennady Chikhachev;
• Musical theater of plastic ballet;
• "Sphere" (Carriage Row, 3);
• Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theater (Nikolskaya, 17);
• "Satyricon" (Sheremetyevskaya, 8);
• Children's Musical Theater named after Natalia Sats (Prospect Vernadsky, 5);
• "Benefit performance" by Anna Nerovnaya (23 Garibaldi Street);
• "Shadow" (October, 5);
• Sovremennik (located at Chistoprudny Boulevard, 19A);
• "Near Stanislavsky's house";
• "School of the modern play";
• "On the fifth floor";
• "New Opera" named after Evgeny Kolobov;
• "Vernissage";
• "Pyotr Fomenko Workshop" (29 Taras Shevchenko Embankment);
• Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin Drama Theater (on Tverskoy Boulevard, 23);
• "Buff" (Lesnaya, 59);
• "Et Cetera" (Frolov Lane, 2);
• TUZ;
• Drama named after A. N. Ostrovsky;
• Ruben Simonov Theater (Kaloshin Lane, 10);
• "New Drama";
• "Romen" (Leningradskyavenue, 30);
• Shalom (on Varshavskoe shosse, 71);
• "Modern" S. Vragovoy;
• Theatre of illusion.
• Theater of the Moon (Malaya Ordynka, 53);
• Tereza Durova's Clowning Theatre;
• Levitikon Christian Drama and Music Theater;
• MKhAT;
• MKhT;
• "Amadeus";
• Optical theater;
• Spiritual Theater "Glas";
• Psychological theater;
• "On Taganka" (Zemlyanoy Val, 76);
• Chamber stage;
• Parajanovskoe foyer;
• "Parsley";
• "Art nest";
• "Practice".
• "CHALK"
• "I'm an artist myself";
• "Monologue";
• "Russian House";
• "Flint and Steel";
• "Na Presnya";
• "Radius Hall";
• Cabaret "Bat";
• "Man" (Skatertny Lane, 23A);
• "Mansion".

Here, of course, not a complete list of theaters in Moscow is presented, since there are a lot of them and it is difficult to fit everything into the framework of one small article.

Downtown

There are some theaters in the center of Moscow. Their list looks like this:

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  Meyerhold Theater Center;

• Innovation Theater Center;
• Grooming Theater Center;
• Art Voyage;
• Aquamarine Musical Circus Theatre;
• Mikhail Bulgakov Theatre;
• International Theater Center of GloryPolunin;
• Cherry Orchard directed by A. Vilkin;
• Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center;
• Gogol Center;
• Center on Strastnoy;

Rating

According to the results of audience surveys, the best theaters in Moscow were chosen. The list includes those with the most votes:

1. Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre;
2. Small dramatic;
3. Puppet named after Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov;
4. Moscow operetta;
5. Helikon-Opera;
6. Lenkom;
7. MKhAT;
8. TUZ;
9. MKhT;
10. "Contemporary";
11. named after the Moscow Council.

For young viewers

A fairy tale and magic always reign in theaters for children. Here, small spectators join the beauty, develop, experience many different exciting emotions, the principles of morality are laid in their minds, they learn and educate. Today, a large repertoire is offered to young viewers, for all ages and for every taste - these are musical performances, and puppets, and with the participation of animals, which all children love so much!

Children's theaters in Moscow (list):

• Cat Theater, founder - Yuri Kuklachev;
• Grandfather Durov's Corner;
• Magic Lamp;
• A-Z;
• Fairy tale children's theater;
• "Semitsvetik";
• Albatross Puppet Theatre;
• Interactive theater "Courage".

The Musical Theater of Young Actors of Alexander Fedorov is very interesting. Its uniqueness lies inthat it is not adults who play in it, but the same children that are sitting in the auditorium. The principle of the theater is "children for children". The age of the artists is from 9 to 16 years old, while they work professionally, excellent teachers work with them, who teach them in the same way as they teach students, and no one makes discounts for their age, here they join the beautiful and get professional skills that useful to those of them who seriously decide to connect their lives with the acting profession - to enter a university or college, and in the future to serve art and become famous artists.

Famous Obraztsovsky

The list of theaters in Moscow, which are designed to delight young viewers, is headed by the most famous and most important Puppet Theater in the country, S. V. Obraztsova. It was created by Sergei Vladimirovich in 1931. There is a unique largest museum here, where theater puppets from different eras and countries are collected, viewers can watch its collection before the start of the performance (the museum starts its work 40 minutes before the start of the performance) and during the intermission. The repertoire is extensive and covers all ages - there are performances for both children and adults. The world-famous production of "An Extraordinary Concert" is listed in the "Guinness Book of Records" and has been a hallmark for a decade now. Since 1970, the troupe has a new building, its facade is decorated with a unique clock, every hour they play the melody “In the garden or in the garden”, and around the clock face, doors in drawers open in turn, each of which houses a fairy-tale character.

Musical theaters

The musical theaters of Moscow have become incredibly popular now. List of sites that provide viewers with the opportunity to plunge into such a popular genre today as a musical:

• Musical Theater in the Gorbunov Palace of Culture;
• Temple Rock Order;
• M. E. S. S.;
• Moscow Operetta;
• Wolves of Mibu Musical Theater (all female actors);
• Creative workshop of Alexey Rybnikov;
• Lotus Youth Musical Theater.

For lovers of classical musical productions, there are opera houses in Moscow. Their list is not so long, but at the same time they are very popular with both residents of Moscow and guests of the city:

• Bolshoi Theatre;
• named after Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko;
• Helikon-Opera;
• Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Theater;
• on Basmannaya;
• "New Opera";
• Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center, where artists train and perform.

Stas Namin Music and Drama Theater

The list of Moscow theaters, which are famous for their multi-genre productions, is not particularly extensive, one of the most prominent representatives is the Stas Namin Theater, quite young, which appeared at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The repertoire is very wide and varied, it includes dramatic performances, musicals, ballets, rock operas. The actors here are unique and versatile, whomaster acting skills, vocals and choreography at the highest level. The first production was the legendary Broadway rock musical Hair, which Stas Namin saw and heard in America. He inspired the musician at one time to create his brainchild. Every year the troupe delights its audience with five premieres. The auditorium is small, designed for only 230 seats, but it is precisely this intimacy and close contact between the audience and the artists that helps make the performances even more unforgettable.

Moscow operetta

Another famous stage of the country, which is included in the list of Moscow theaters that show musical performances to the public, is the Moscow Operetta. It was opened in 1922. This is one of the leading stage venues not only in the capital, but throughout the country, famous and popular all over the world. The repertoire consists of classical operettas by I. Kalman, I. Strauss, F. Lehar, as well as works by Soviet composers: I. Dunaevsky, T. Khrennikov, D. Shostakovich and others. The head of the Moscow operetta today is Vladimir Isidorovich Tartakovsky. In addition to traditional performances, musicals that are fashionable in our time have appeared in the repertoire, both foreign, translated into Russian, and already ours, Russian. The very first musical staged on this stage was the Metro project, then Notre Dame de Paris and Romeo and Juliet appeared, now it's Monte Cristo and Count Orlov.

Drama

The most common type of theater in the capital is drama. There are most of them here, whileall of them have a varied repertoire, from classical to contemporary. Small theaters in Moscow also belong to this genre. There are two of them in total - the main one, which is located at Teatralny proezd, 1, and its branch on Bolshaya Ordynka, 69.

Maly theaters in Moscow offer the audience performances based on plays by A. N. Ostrovsky, A. K. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, F. Schiller, N. V. Gogol, M. Yu. Lermontov, D. I. Fonvizin, E. Zola and other classics.