Moscow Theatres

For decades Moscow  has  had  a  reputation  as  a  city  of theatres.  The birth plays of the historic "Bolshoy",  "Maly" and "Moscow Art" theatres the city has been and steel is a centre for the  development exploratory modern ideas in the dramatic art and is famous for its  great  number  of  highly gifted,  interesting directors, actors, playwrights and artists.
Every evening the doors of Moscow theatres open  to  streams of theatre-gowers. The best Moscow theatres devoted themselves to developing the principals of directing and acting  laid  down  by Stanislavsky,   Meerhold,  Nemerovich-Danchenko,  Vachtangov  and others.  The discoveries and successes of Moscow  theatres  today exists due to experience and triumphs of preceding generations.

Bolshoi Theater
Bolshoy means big, so this is a big theatre. Built in 1824, this theatre was the second biggest theater in the world after Milano's "La Scala". Besides, it is one of the best opera theaters in the world. It is hard to buy ticket, but if you manage to do this, you will like the show.

Maly Theater
It was built in the same year as Bolshoy. If there is a "big" theatre on the square, the other theatre will be "small"; it happens they built second theatre and called it "Maliy", which means "small". This dramatic theatre was very important for Russian culture - the best artists and editors preformed there in the best Russian plays. There is a monument in front of Maly theater to Ostrovsky - Russian play writer of the 19th century.

Moscow Arts Theatre (MKhAT)
The foundation of the Moscow Arts Theater in 1898 marked the birth of modern drama. By bringing together the radically new plays of Anton Chekhov and the method-acting techniques of Konstantin Stanislavsky, the MKhAT broke radically with the classical tradition of European drama and invented a fresh, realistic theater that continues to influence theatrical production all over the world. Although the advent of the Soviet state rapidly constrained the artistic inventiveness of the MKhAT, it maintained its commitment to the finely-modulated dramatic style first developed by Stanislavsky and his co-founder Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. A century later, the MKhAT is no longer on the cutting edge of Russian theater, but it maintains its position as the premier method-acting company in the world. .