Tver Regional Academic Drama Theater

The Tver Theater was established in 1745 at the Tver Theological Seminary, which was opened on February 16, 1739 and was housed in the building of the Tver Russian Diocesan School at the Fedorovsky Monastery on an island at the mouth of the T'maki River , and existed there for about 30 years. A manuscript with the name of one of the earliest productions has been preserved:

A synopsis or a brief vision of the recitation to the Imperial Majesty's Highest Birthday in 1745, the month of February ... day in the presence of Mitrofan, Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky from the Tver Seminary in two acts depicted

In 1787, the building of the city theater was built, while some of the performances were staged in other buildings and premises. At the beginning of the 19th century, the theater troupe was formed by the “Free Nobility Society”. In 1848, the new theater building was built by the merchant Sutugin, and the new troupe was formed from graduates of the Moscow school, and N.V. Gogol ’s comedy “ Marriage ” was staged there.

By 1879, the theater moved to the building of the Public Assembly, and in 1888, together with the Public Assembly, was transferred to the building of the Gostiny Dvor. In the late XIX - early XX centuries, other theaters appeared in Tver, however, during the reorganization of 1920-1926. all of them were attached to the Kalinin State Theater. In the 1920s, four troupes worked in parallel in it, and in the early 1930s the troupe of V. M. Bryansky and N. V. Margaritov stood out.

In 1934, the theater building was reconstructed, an auditorium with 1250 seats was built. With the start of World War II, a militia detachment was created from artists. In September 1941, the theater was evacuated to the city of Sovetsk, Kirov (now Vyatka) region, where it opened with the play of the brothers Tur and L. Shein “Face-to-Face”, and in January 1942 he returned to the liberated city. The theater building was destroyed. At this time, for a long creative period, he connected his life with the Kalinin Drama Theater of Nar. art. RSFSR G.A. Georgievsky (1942-1953, 1958-1967, chief director). Special groups of artists traveled to the war zones with concerts. Only in 1943, the Tver Drama Theater in its entirety spent 2.5 months at the front, played 170 performances and gave 1,500 concerts. In 1962-67, a branch of the Moscow Art Theater School was created at the theater. It was completed by such famous actors as Nar. art of Russia. N.V. Khonina, V.Z. Gataev; merit art. Russia V.A. Sinitsky, A.S. Spivak. In 1982, the Small Stage was opened, in 1980 - a museum, from 1993 to 2009. On the basis of the theater, students of the Higher Theater School named after M. S. Shchepkina (4 issues were carried out). In 1995, the theater was awarded the title of academic ^[1] .

At different times, the directors worked in the theater: N. M. Tseretelli, S. V. Vinogradov, hon. art. RSFSR: D. G. Mitin, V. A. Galitsky, A. S. Safronov, merit. art. Lat. SSR S.F. Vladychansky, S.K. Plisetskaya; artists: L. N. Timofeeva, A. V. Tretyakov, BC Solodov, G. L. Ratner, G. P. Belov, A. A. Lakshin, E. M. Byrdin; actors: nar. artists of the RSFSR N. V. Goncharova , F. A. Dembitskaya, I. P. Lobanov , V. S. Rostovtsev , E. M. Saveliev , V. V. Soshalskaya, O. M. Kholina, A. A. Vokach, A.M. Volskaya, O.P. Lelyanov, V.Z. Gataev, merit. artists of the RSFSR E. Z. Popova, K. G. Lavretsky, O. V. Drozdova, V. M. Bryansky, L. B. Borisova, A. A. Malchenko, V. K. Surudin, A. A. Andreev, A.F. Godlevsky, S.M. Plotnikov, Laureate of the State. prizes of the RSFSR V.V. Leshchev, merit., cultural workers of the RSFSR E.M. Botvinnikov, N.N. Pastukhov, artists P.P. Zvantsev, V.K. Rasskazov, A.V. Prussakov, V.F. Goncharenko , P.I. Laryushin and others.

In the troupe of the theater for 2015 - 8 folk artists; 10 honored artists; 26 artists, of which 17 people are the young generation, the present and future of the theater. The theater’s repertoire includes 27 titles, 12 of which are performances on Russian classical literature.

Troupe of the Tver Academic Drama Theater:

• Vera Andreevna Efremova , People's Artist of Russia - Artistic Director of the Theater ^[2]
• Irina Vasilievna Andrianova, People's Artist of Russia
• Leonid Arkadevich Brusin , People's Artist of Russia
• Vera Dmitrievna Rychkova (Yakivyak), People's Artist of Russia
• Naina Vladimirovna Honina , People's Artist of Russia
• Vladimir Dmitrievich Chernyshov, People's Artist of Russia
• Alexander Alexandrovich Chuikov , People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986)
• Konstantin Glebovich Yuchenkov , People's Artist of Russia
• Nikolai Pavlovich Butrekhin, Honored Artist of Russia
• Irina Vladimirovna Kirillova , Honored Artist of Russia (2004) ^[3]
• Boris Nikolaevich Lifanov, Honored Artist of Russia
• Valentina Vladislavovna Martyanova, Honored Artist of Russia
• Zalim Khazhmirzovich Mirzoev, Honored Artist of Russia
• Valentin Olegovich Kulagin, Honored Artist of Russia
• Georgy Nikolayevich Ponomarev, Honored Artist of Russia
• Vitaly Afanasevich Sinitsky, Honored Artist of Russia (1997)
• Andrey Evgenievich Zhuravlev, Honored Artist of Russia
• Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Gribkov, Honored Artist of Russia
• Svetlana Evgenievna Aksenova
• Zoya Sergeevna Andreeva (Ponomareva)
• Gennady Sergeevich Babinov
• Julia Viktorovna Bedareva
• Nikita Sergeevich Berezkin
• Natalya Nikolaevna Burdina
• Anastasia Nikolaevna Burova
• Alexey Mikhailovich Velikotny
• Evgeniya Alekseevna Golubeva
• Yana Valeryevna Golubeva
• Victoria Yurievna Kozlova (Lomaginova)
• Taras Nikolaevich Kuzmin
• Lyudmila Vladimirovna Lepekhina
• Tatyana Evgenievna Lugacheva
• Alexey Nikolaevich Orekhov-Maysky
• Boris Paulovich Mikhnya
• Dmitry Sergeevich Novoselov
• Alexander Anatolyevich Pavlishin
• Angelica Alexandrovna Pankova
• Daria Alekseevna Plavinskaya (Pavlishina)
• Natalya Vasilievna Plavinskaya
• Irina Sergeevna Pogodina (Bedrosova)
• Evgeny Gennadevich Romanov
• Alexander Alexandrovich Safronov
• Elena Viktorovna Filatova
• Svetlana Mikhailovna Filatova

The artistic director - People’s Artist of Russia, State Prize Laureate of Russia, director and teacher known to Russia, Professor Vera Efremova - has been serving the Tver scene since 1974, and with her appearance in the theater a new era begins: the Small Stage opens, the theater is awarded the title “academic” , 4 graduations of the Tver Acting Course of the Higher Theater School named after M. S. Shchepkin were held, 40-year-old play-visiting card of the Cherry Orchard Theater staged by V. Efremova has lived here, and, most importantly, in Tva over the years A viewer has been brought up who knows, loves and understands the work of the Tver Theater.

Director of the Drama Theater since 2014 - Mark Evgenievich Sokolov, thanks to which the Theater is surrounded by a number of modern and useful traditions and projects for the viewer. Since 2014, a unique project "Theater and School" has been operating, thanks to which students of schools and secondary specialized educational institutions can, after the performance, in the format of a live dialogue (or by leaving a note with a question), communicate with artists on the subject of production, work, images and characters viewed performance.

In the Year of Culture and the Year of Literature, the Accessible Theater project works here, which allows everyone to buy a ticket to any point of the hall once a month for only 100 rubles.