Drama and comedy theater of Khabarovsk region (Khabarovsk)

 theatre, Stalinist (architecture), 1933_construction

In 1933 Khabarovsk city committee for the first time considered an issue of organizing of the permanent drama theatre, and in 1946 the theatre was given the unit in the unique building of the club-house of the People’s Commissariat of the internal affairs, which was known as the House of Commune.
The opening of the Khabarovsk regional theatre of drama and comedy took place on the 16th of March 1946 and the first performance – “Memorable meetings” after the play by K. Utevskiy – was devoted to the heroes that fought for our motherland during the Great Patriotic War.
Khabarovsk regional theatre of drama presented its art to the hundreds thousands of spectators fr om Sakhalin to Ural. And in the year of its twentieth anniversary was touring in the capital where it received the high rating fr om the famous back then theatre critics.
There are three People’s artist of Russia and seven honoured artists in the theatre’s company. The indicator of the active creative activity is the fact that the theatre releases 4-6 new performances on the average per season.
There was staged more than 400 performances fr om the heritage of the world and modern dramaturgy during the 66 seasons.
Today there are “Cherry garden” by A. Chekhov, “Fat office” by A. Ostrovskiy, “Krechinskiy’s wedding” by Sukhoi-Kobylin, “Wedding” by N. Gogol, “A very simple story” by M. Lado and other in theatre’s repertoire.