Samara State Academic Drama Theatre . Gorky - Drama at Samara.
Samara Drama Theatre dates back to 1851 when Samara was designated a provincial town. Then in Samara came the first professional company - entreprise E. Strelkov .She has performed in a specially adapted house of the merchant Lebedev. In 1854, the mansion burned Lebedev .
In 1855, the theater appeared wooden building , and in 1888 by architect MN Chichagov was built a new stone building the theater. The theater building in the style of pseudo- citizens became known as attics or gingerbread house.
The heyday of the Samara Theatre in the XIX century is associated with the repertory company , PM Medvedev (1860 - 80s . ) AA Rasskazova in 1870 . , IK Nemov , I. Novikov ( 1870 , 1880s . ). In Samara, and were so called . Mixed Company (drama , opera, operetta ). Since 1907, the year of submission were in the theater , the Circus Olympus.Now the building is completely rebuilt , but its historical facade was saved , it is the Samara Philharmonic.
In 1930, Samara was a standing troupe 's theater, which has taken a theater built in the 1888. In the early 1930s, it included actors Tolubeev YV , VV Merkur'ev , AF Kistev , V.Scarlet P. , VS Nelsky , led the troupe N. Simonov .
In 1977, Kuibyshev Drama was named academic.
The current repertoire .
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