"Woe from Wit" directed by Alexander Yatsko is a rare example of a modern, but respectful attitude to the classics. The actors are dressed in costumes like from a stylish boutique, but at the same time they thoughtfully pronounce the text of Griboyedov's comedy without distortion. The reduction affected only six princesses of the Tugoukhovskys: it would have been cramped for them on the small “Stage under the roof”. Woe from Wit at the Mossovet Theater is a chamber story of young people, fashionable and uncompromising.

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Famous theater experiment

The French director proposed an avant-garde version of reading Gogol's text. The whole phantasmagoria is played by punks - in black leather suits with heavy metal rivets, with sophisticated tattoos, colored mohawks on their heads. The dolls on the stage are just as unusual for the Moscow audience. Together with the performers, they appear as a kind of centaurs, and at some moments the actor conducts a dialogue with the doll, which he himself controls.

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A great play played without words

In this interpretation, not a single word of Gogol sounds, there are no words at all. Director Sergei Zemlyansky is known for converting literature into plastic art. In just an hour and a half, the actors in the dance will transmit simultaneously a satirical and lyrical story about the life of people in a provincial city, where they live with their weaknesses and hopes.

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Classic production with puppets

Gogol's play is only slightly abbreviated, focusing on human relations rather than satirical cartoons. Puppet characters are charming in the first place, and therefore evoke not only sympathy, but understanding. Unexpected decisions arise when puppets interact with characters played by actors in a "live plan" (as in puppet theater they talk about a technique when an actor plays a role exclusively by means of dramatic theater).

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This is just the beginning

They are just talking about the war, and they only gather about it, flaunting it. The world is represented by Moscow and St. Petersburg families with Natasha and Andrey beginning to grow up. The masterpiece of director Pyotr Fomenko takes almost four hours, but is perceived in one breath. The actors barely have time to present the events of the incomplete first volume of the great novel, playing several diverse roles and demonstrating the enchanting skill for which the audience fell in love with the Fomenok.

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A great actress talks about a great poet

Alla Demidova does not just present the poems of Anna Akhmatova, which she often did in her reading programs. She talks about Akhmatova and acts by reading the text in mise-en-scène and scenography by Kirill Serebrennikov, surrounded by modern sound design and video animation. The neon inscription in Latin, adorning the Fountain House in St. Petersburg, "God preserves everything" becomes an important detail of the design, which lasts only an hour, but is extremely saturated with meanings of the production.

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A performance for advanced teens and their advanced parents

Evgeny Mironov tried on the role of the Narrator, who in the incredibly beautiful performance of the world theater star Bob Wilson wears a red wig and dangles his legs, sitting on an oak tree above a learned cat. He ironically comments on what is happening, then driving around in a red convertible instead of shipbuilders, then instantly aging, sharing with the public the little-known "Tale of the Bear". The play is a reason to look at the poems learned from childhood with a fresh look from a foreign visionary director.

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Theater as a garden

Of course, in order to accept this performance, one must accept the manner of play of Renata Litvinova, who here does not play Ranevskaya, but lives in this way, ironically over her own intonations and gestures. Nevertheless, she takes pity on her "idiot" heroine. The garden itself, as interpreted by director Adolf Shapiro, is a theater. New actors are replacing the old masters, who are represented here by Nikolai Chindyaykin and Sergey Dreiden, and the usual curtain with a seagull does not open, but breaks up into segments, cutting the space of the entire legendary stage of the Moscow Art Theater, becoming like flowering trees in a cold spring.

It is wonderful that in our life - realistic, selfish and increasingly virtual - there is a place for romanticism. And it doesn't matter that only in the theater. The production of one of the best books in the genre of "cloak and sword" by the French classic Théophile Gaultier is a great success. Most likely, a modern teenager, at best, has an idea of ​​this trend in art based on the film about The Three Musketeers. Gauthier's novel is not so popular - and this is a shame! After all, it is he who represents the pearl of the adventure-romantic style.

There is everything here: intrigue, bandits, fights, dressing up, kidnapping, villains and lovers. Agree that such a set can attract even a skeptical viewer in a difficult transitional age. But the main character in the production of the Workshop is still the theater: a theater based on Shakespeare, which, as you know, is the whole world, and the people in it are actors.

Sometimes you have to not be afraid to "leave the room", hit the road and find yourself, trying on a different role. This is exactly what the protagonist, the young, poor Baron de Sigognac, commits when he sets out on a journey with a troupe of traveling artists. In the wake of his beloved - a theater actress - he becomes a mask: Captain Fracasse.

I went to the performance with only one fear: I was embarrassed by its duration. Captain Fracasse starts at seven in the evening and ends closer to eleven. I was not worried about myself, but about the children. It turned out - in vain! They looked great and, according to their own impressions, did not miss a single minute. The performance is incredibly spectacular, in it theatricality is elevated to the third degree: lush, spreading costumes, which, on the one hand, refer to the era of Louis XIII, and on the other, of course, echo the masks of the Venice Carnival - the immortal comedy of Del Arte. The main "feature" of the scenery, which helps to catch, catch the main motive of perpetual motion, the paths of a wandering theatrical troupe (and of the whole life) are three travolators on the stage. Remember? There are such moving stepless paths to speed up the movement of pedestrians. The heroes of the performance move along them. Very succinctly and accurately.

The roles are all bright, characteristic. Especially beautiful is the main villain - the rival of the baron. You will die laughing. In Gaultier's novel, after being on the verge of death, he suddenly (according to all the laws of the genre) realizes his atrocities and becomes a noble hero. In the play, he seems to move a little with his mind and does terribly funny things.

The play "Ruslan and Lyudmila" was invented in an ironic, choppy style. After all, the poem itself was originally conceived with elements of a parody (based on Zhukovsky's ballad "Twelve Sleeping Maidens"). Pushkin deliberately ironically belittled the noble images of Zhukovsky, inserted comic, grotesque details into the narrative. In the play, the image of Pushkin is joking, hooligan, mocking, but very sensual.

Here, fearless heroes and Ruslan saddle mops and brooms instead of horses, put crumpled buckets on their heads and fight with toy swords. The plump Farlaf with a large red mustache is terribly reminiscent of either Barmaley or Gerard Depardieu in the role of Obelix. Chernomor's beard looks more like a long New Year's garland, and the “cherished ring” for Lyudmila is kept in a kinder - a surprise.

The play is played on a small stage in the new building of the Workshop, which, as you know, has a secret. The viewers in the hall will have the perspective of the lower theater foyer with its three-dimensional geometric architecture: steps, a balcony, columns, openings, ceilings. In addition to the architecture of the foyer, a tree-column with a chain - "green oak" and knots-steps, as well as a wooden inclined platform, which serves as a kind of shelter, grows on the stage. And it's all! The rest is a game of imagination. If this is a meeting between Ruslan and an old Finn, then you just need to listen, and a slight echo and the sound of dripping water will take you to the deaf old man's cave. If this is the domain of Chernomor with beautiful waterfalls and gardens, then these are flowing fabrics and real oranges scattered across the stage. And if this is the principality of Vladimir, then this is an ordinary long banquet table, which, if desired, is divided into two halves (the promised "half of the kingdom of great-grandfathers").

Everything here seems to be not serious. This is a kind of comic strip on a classic theme that will definitely please a capricious teenager: he will get acquainted with the immortal plot, he will learn the school curriculum in literature, and will enjoy it.

The Cannibal is based on the play of the same name by the contemporary Canadian playwright Suzanne Lebeau. The plot is not inferior to the thriller: there is a strange mystery, and increasing tension, and an unexpected denouement. A mother and son live in the forest far away from people. He is huge in stature at 6 years old, and responds to an unusual, domestic nickname - Ogre. She is lost in love for her only child, intimidated by the aggressive world, but a proud woman with a mysterious past.

Here in such a story are hidden meanings addressed to today's rising generation and their parents. Here and overprotection of the child - fears that devour adults; and the struggle with passions and desires in children who have suddenly matured. The play is played on the small stage of the theater: everything is very close (the action takes place at arm's length) and very truthful, in places to a lump in the throat, to tears. It is almost always dark and a little scary.

The play is based on the play "At the Ark at Eight" by the famous German playwright, director and actor Ulrich Hub. Hub wrote it in 2006 after a German publishing house invited several theaters to raise the issue of religion in children's plays. Agree that the topic is very delicate, not easy for the theater, but it seems to me, of course, important and necessary for a conversation with a teenager. And this is that rare case when the author managed to successfully combine the pathos that is relevant here with the ease of narration and good irony.

The plot is simple: God was angry with people and animals for their harshness, ingratitude, unbelief and arranges a worldwide flood. As you know, in Noah's ark, only "creatures in pairs" can be saved. But there are three penguins. One of them (at the behest of friends) has to sail on the ark "like a hare". How to learn to sacrifice yourself for the sake of another? How to see and be able to admit your mistakes? How to forgive your neighbor and not grumble against God? To these “overwhelming” questions, obvious answers are born in an hour and a half, and most importantly - with subtle humor and love. The penguins in the play are three funny would-be musicians.

No beaks, tails or other nonsense. Penguins are people too. They quarrel, reconcile, fear, rejoice, sad, sing and play a lot: now on a giant balalaika, now on a dull accordion, now on drums. By the way, for fathers and mothers there are “adult” greetings in the play from the director of the play: from time to time the penguins begin to speak in phrases of Chekhov's characters or in Brodsky's poems. Very funny and surprisingly accurate.

My children always enjoy listening to stories from my childhood. It seems to me that all children love it. The performance at the A-Z theater is a living picture from the past: funny to tears, desperately sad, familiar to the aching pain in the solar plexus area, and all, without exception, musical. This is a production that is able to give adults a piece of irrevocably gone, unclouded happiness, and to matured children, open the coveted door to such a strange Soviet childhood of parents and grandparents.

The performance is based on the memories of real people, whose childhood was in the 40-80s of the last century. There is no chronology - everything is mixed. Here is the war with evacuation, and stories about pioneers with hooligans, and life in a communal apartment. Music records, coveted bicycles, the first TV, black bread with toothpaste instead of cakes ... You listen to every sign of the time, figure out when the cake could cost 25 rubles and quietly whisper in your son's ear that this wonderful actor is lurking on purpose: he is Volodya Ulyanov.
All the actors involved in the performance easily transform into musicians: saxophone, electric guitars, drums. Music is a barometer of time: Khil, Zykina, Tsoi, Butusov.

Each memory is unique. And it was not just played, it was lived: here and now. With great love, without pathos and pseudo-nostalgia for the past. And you have no idea how many questions arise in the mind of a teenager after watching a play. Isn't this the most beautiful thing: to have a heart-to-heart talk after what you saw together in the theater?

Another work from the school curriculum on literature, which for some reason is tacitly accepted to watch at the Maly Theater. Without belittling the merits of this production, I would like to advise "The Minor" in Chikhachevka (as fans of the theater affectionately call this theater.) Fonvizin's play was successfully turned into a vaudeville opposition. The music was written by the famous composer Andrei Zhurbin, the author of dozens of operas, ballets and hundreds of musical hits for stage and cinema (which are only songs from the movie "Squadron of flying hussars").

And "The Minor" is no exception: not only true connoisseurs of musical theater will be imbued with music in the performance, but even those who will encounter this genre for the first time. However, everything is on top here: both original costumes and beautiful voices of the artists. There is also a slight deviation from the classic plot, which becomes the spring of the whole action: in the play, Empress Catherine II herself is one of the main characters. It was during her reign that the premiere of Fonvizin's comedy took place in the theater. Her image creates a historical context, expands the boundaries of the play, which, of course, is only for the benefit of the modern teenager. Two in one: both a literature lesson and a history lesson.

Stories about Sherlock Holmes seem to be created in order to be embodied in the shadow theater. Where, if not here, a unique atmosphere of mystery is created: there is no better place for detective stories.
We have already written that the theater has conceived an interesting project: a theatrical series based on the famous stories of Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. The first two performances were based on the stories The Dog of the Baskervilles and The Vampire of Sussex. And here's the next episode! This time - one of the most popular stories about the English detective: "Motley Ribbon". We watched all the episodes and after each one the children just exhaled: "Wow!"

Each performance is an amazingly harmonious synthesis of dramatic, puppet and shadow theater: all techniques are combined and intertwined with each other. Behind the screen, in complete darkness, there are shadows of exotic animals - the pavian and the cheetah, walking around the cruel Roylott's estate; but graceful reed dolls of twin sisters appear on the stage, and glove dolls suddenly appear on the hands of the actors - funny reduced copies of the famous detective and his assistant.

The duet of two dramatic actors playing the roles of Holmes and Watson (and this despite fierce competition with the cinema, where the iconic images of Conan Doyle were created at different times) is undoubtedly a success of the production. Sherlock is young, impulsive and ironic. Watson is funny, awkward, but terribly charming. The main feature in their communication is (to use language understandable for today's adolescents) kind trolling of each other. And in general, the whole production is sustained in essence in this vein. What is the Gypsy girl to the accompaniment of a live violin performed by Watson in Russian-English: one, one, and one more (remember, gypsies lived in the Roylotta estate?). You will definitely not be bored.

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Svetlana Berdichevskaya

Young people today do not like the art of theater too much, preferring more and more to surf the Internet or, at worst, go to the cinema. Meanwhile, theater is an integral part of the formation of a truly intellectually developed person. Therefore, it is so important to know what interesting performances there are for high school students, to which they can still be reduced.

Children's theaters in Moscow

In many theaters of the capital, various performances are successfully staged, which can also be watched by children. Before listing some of them, it is worth dwelling in a little more detail on Moscow children's theaters - after all, they are the ones that specialize both in performances for teenagers and in performances for toddlers.

There are a huge number of similar institutions in the capital of our country. Musical performances that will be of interest to both the little ones and older children can be seen by visiting the Natalia Sats Children's Theater - the world's first theater where opera for children is shown, by the way. A children's shadow theater also works in the capital. Do not think that such entertainment is interesting only to kids. For the older category of spectators, there is also a rich selection of performances, and teenagers are also taken on a tour of the theater and tell in detail about the specifics of this type of art.

Do not forget about the theater of the young spectator. Moreover, in Moscow there is both central and regional. In both, performances for teenagers are constantly held, and an extensive repertoire allows you to choose a performance to your liking and within your pocket. The puppet theater of Sergei Obraztsov is very popular even among adults. Do not assume that the dolls are intended only for the very young age: in this temple of art, every viewer will find something to surprise.

The theater of the beloved and well-known "grandfather Durov" and his animals is another great place that is perfect for visiting with children. If animals are loved, they are loved at any age - which means that even a teenager will not be bored and uninteresting to look at funny animals performing a wide variety of tricks and tricks.

Teenagers can see performances based on dramatic works in the A-Z theater. This institution is unusual, firstly, in that they stage non-trivial performances there - that is, the repertoire is different from others. And, secondly, the theater has its own children's troupe. And it's always interesting to look at peers!

It should be noted that there are only about one hundred and seventy theaters in Moscow. More than a third of them are children. Of course, it is not possible to list everything, but there is absolutely plenty to choose a place to take a child there.

Genre variety of performances

For some reason, many people mistakenly believe that performances for children are mainly presented by cheerful light comedies, where you do not need to strain your head. This view is fundamentally wrong. Perhaps this statement is only partly true for the smallest category of viewers - three-year-olds, but even then, even for them, it happens that more serious performances are shown. And there is no need to talk about older children: performances for teenagers are distinguished by a rich variety of genres: comedies, dramas, melodramas, adventures, musicals, and operettas ... Some of the performances for children in Moscow are a little lower.

"The little Prince"

He is widely known to a large audience (especially to those who are older) as the leader of the "Flowers" group. However, he, among other things, is also the creator of the first musical theater in our country, which bears his name. At the Stas Namin Theater, children and their parents can watch the wonderful musical "The Little Prince", based on the work of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Wonderful choreography, amazing stunts, beautiful scenery, magnificent work of the director and actors - this is what awaits those who come to the performance. Leading actors of the Stas Namin Theater, such as Andrei Domnin, Yana Kuts, Ivan Fedorov and others, are involved in the musical "The Little Prince".

The performance lasts an hour and forty-five minutes, and viewers who have already watched it note that time passes very quickly. Children do not get bored during the performance, and after returning home they remember the wonderful performance for a long time.

"The Cherry Orchard"

Another option. Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" goes to several at once. Directors love this production for its undying timeliness - what was written at the beginning of the last century remains relevant today.

You can watch this performance for teenagers in Moscow, for example, at the Pushkin Theater. The production of director Vladimir Mirzoev has been going on there for almost three years now. The main roles are played by artists known not only for their theatrical, but also for their film works - Maxim Vitorgan, Taisiya Vilkova, Victoria Isakova and many others. The performance lasts almost three hours with one break.

The Mayakovsky Theater also staged Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Its duration is ten minutes shorter than that of a colleague theater, but this does not mean at all that in form or content this performance is inferior to Pushkin's. Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Steklov, Pavel Lyubimtsev - these are just a few of the actors involved in the performance, and with such names the performance cannot fail.

The audience is enjoying the performance of The Cherry Orchard by Andrei Konchalovsky at the Mossovet Theater. The comedy in four acts is successfully performed with the participation of such famous artists as Yulia Vysotskaya, Alexander Domogarov, Alexey Grishin and others. In addition, there is a "Cherry Orchard" in Lenkom, the great Mark Zakharov. The play is played by Alexander Zbruev, Maxim Amelchenko, Leonid Bronevoy.

"A long time ago". Exciting staging

The play "A long time ago" based on the play of the same name has been going on in the early forties. Of course, there were breaks when this production (by the way, many people know this play from the excellent film "The Hussar Ballad") was not included in the theater's repertoire. But in recent years, the updated performance, masterfully made by director Boris Morozov, once again pleases the audience. This is a completely different reading of the old text - however, each production is unique in its own way.

The performance lasts almost three hours, and among the performers of the main roles are such artists as Anna Kireeva, Anastasia Busygina, Sergey Kolesnikov, Valery Abramov, Elena Svanidze and so on.

"Doctor Chekhov"

A wonderful performance based on the works of Anton Pavlovich is being held in the theater at the Nikitsky Gate. This is the play "Doctor Chekhov" - the so-called theatrical fantasies. The director carried out a truly titanic work - having "shoveled" mountains of literature, he not only restored Chekhov's heroes on the stage, he made them alive, and two hours in the hall just fly by unnoticed. It is not for nothing that critics call this work a "research performance".

The production involves the leading actors of the theater - Alexander Karpov, Margarita Rasskazova, Vladimir Piskunov, Yuri Golubtsov, Olga Lebedeva. From the stage, viewers can see the performance of such Chekhov's stories as "The Diplomat", "Vanka Zhukov", "I Want to Sleep" and others. In total, the director selected eight wonderful works of the writer from different years for the performance.

"Musketeers"

Another performance for teenagers can be confidently called "The Musketeers" (or "The Three Musketeers"). Who has not read the books of Alexandre Dumas in childhood! Who has not fought in severe battles alongside the brave D'Artanyan and his friends! The adventures of these heroes are close and understandable to boys and girls at all times, and therefore this performance is invariably in demand.

You can look at the life of desperate musketeers and enjoy the wonderful game and fencing at the RAMT - Andrey Ryklin's production lasts exactly two and a half hours. Also, visitors to the Chekhov Theater have a chance to watch the unforgettable heroes of Dumas; however, you need to be prepared for the fact that the performance there goes much more - as much as four hours and forty minutes. True, the production provides for two intermissions. For the first time in this theater, this performance took place two years ago, in the fall, so we can say that this is a relatively new performance. Its peculiarity, in addition to its length, is that the director Konstantin Bogomolov, creating his performance, did not use the text of the great French classic. On its basis, a new plot was created, which is inherent in love, and detective, and mysticism ... To understand the whole idea of ​​the director, you need to watch the performance! In addition, wonderful actors play there - Danil Steklov, Igor Vernik, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Irina Miroshnichenko, Roza Khairullina and others. Those who have already seen the performance note that one cannot remain indifferent. Regardless of whether you like the "trash epic" (this is the subtitle of the performance) or not, one cannot disagree with the fact that it does not look like anything or anyone.

In addition to the RAMT and the Chekhov Theater, "The Three Musketeers" are also performed at Stas Namin's. In his interpretation, this is a musical production. Good songs, good actors, good plot - what else is needed for a wonderful performance? For two and a half hours, viewers have the opportunity to enjoy such actors as Yana Kuts, Alexandra Verkhoshanskaya, Oleg Litskevich and many others.

"Who worked a miracle"

For fifteen years now, the RAMT's repertoire has included another stunning performance for teenagers - "Who Made a Miracle". It is based on a play by William Gibson, a story about a real person, a woman scientist, Ellen Keller. Due to illness, while still quite a child, she stopped seeing and hearing, but, nevertheless, she was able to graduate from one of the most prestigious universities in the world - Harvard, became a linguist, mathematician, writer and teacher. She really worked a miracle, having achieved the impossible: she learned to read and speak, swim and ride a bicycle ... In a word, she proved that human capabilities are endless, you just need to really want to achieve something. It is about this - about human capabilities and belief in oneself, belief in the best - and a wonderful performance was staged by director Yuri Eremin.

A performance with the same name goes on in the theater.For two hours, the audience has the opportunity to empathize with the fate of Ellen Keller, while enjoying the play of Nikolai Glebov, Natalia Kalashnik, Mikhail Ozornin, Vera Desnitskaya, Ekaterina Vasilyeva. Despite the fact that the performance is allowed to be viewed from the age of sixteen, many parents bring even ten years old to the play - and, as they say, what they see is only for the future use of the children.

"Minor"

In the same theater there is another play for teenagers - based on the play by Denis Fonvizin "The Minor": "The Minor. RU ". An old plot in a modern twist is all that is needed to attract the attention of the children (as an example: the play uses the music of Shnur, the leader of the Leningrad group). And the relevance of the play in all centuries has been and remains enormous! The production lasts two hours, with the participation of Alexander Panin, Irina Morozova, Stanislav Fedorchuk and other equally remarkable artists.

For those who love the Maly Theater, you can go to the "Nedoroslya" there. This performance has been on his stage for a long time - more than thirty years. Its duration is almost two and a half hours, and you can see in the performance such actors as Olga Abramova, Mikhail Fomenko, Vladimir Nosik, Maria Seregina, Alexey Kudinovich and others.

Of course, these are just a few of the performances for teenagers existing in Moscow. The assortment of performances is incredibly wide - there would be a desire, but there is something to go for!

The performance is SUPER! Tickets are sold only at the box office of the theater itself and you need to buy them in advance, they are quickly sorted out. Most of the children at the show were between 10 and 15 years old. Many came in groups with teachers. But despite the fact that there were few adults and many children, there was practically no control over the children, they did not break away from the performance. And they did not let the artists go after the performance for a very long time! And mothers and teachers came out with tear-stained eyes.

Performances for children 12-13 years old

• Much ado about nothing - Theater of the Russian Army, Theater named after Pushkin
• Twelfth night (the play is not going anywhere yet)
• "Romeo and Juliet" (held according to the 8th grade program). The play is at the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky and in the Satyricon. My children watched it at the Moscow Art Theater, they liked it. Most of the spectators are teenagers, they clapped for a long time, the artists were not released, they liked it so much.
• Every day is not Sunday
• Like a cat walked wherever he pleases - RAMT, black room
• Fairy tales just in case - RAMT
• Think about us - RAMT
• Bourgeois in the nobility (grade 7)

By the way, RAMT has a club for teenagers and their parents "Theatrical Dictionary"

Performances from 13 to 15 years old

• Don Quixote (Grade 9) - RAMT
• Poverty is not a vice, Our people are numbered (grade 9) - Maly Theater, Moscow Art Theater
• And the dawns here are quiet - it was highly recommended to watch at the RAMT, but since 2010 the performance has not been performed
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Theater in the Southwest
• Eugene Onegin (grade 9)
• Lyceum student (about Pushkin) - Sfera theater.
• Inspector - Maly Theater.
  The Maly Theater has an excellent Inspector General. A full hall of schoolchildren, everyone clapped, did not let the artists go. Tickets can be bought quite easily at the city ticket offices. But at the box office of the theater, tickets are better and cheaper.
• The Minor - Maly Theater.
  This performance is always sold out, tickets are sold only at the box office of the theater. But the play itself is somehow crumpled at the end. Fonvizin did not think of something, and finished the play with some utopian ideas. This leaves a feeling of wasted time. It's a pity for the actors, they gave their best by 150%.

Performances 15+

• Scarlet sails - RAMT (from 16 years old, and not all. See

We all fondly remember going to the theaters of our childhood, to this wonderful world of magic and reincarnation. So let's return to it with our grown children. We offer an overview of the theatrical premieres of the 2015-16 season for viewers of the so-called 12+ category.

Moscow Theater of the Young Spectator presents the season premiere - a performance for the whole family "Penguins"... The new work by Evgeniya Berkovich (a student of Kirill Serebrennikov) is based on the play by the German playwright Ulrich Hub "At the Ark at Eight". Your attention will be offered a witty variation on the theme of the famous biblical legend about the Flood. The main characters are a trinity of stupid, ridiculous, but very cute penguins who are killing time in anticipation of Noah. They play the balalaika, they play amazing penguin blues, and they just fool around. They endlessly argue and quarrel over trifles, pester everyone with stupid questions and stink terribly of fish. Meanwhile, the Ark with the penguin trio, Noah and his motley crew on board, overcoming the boundaries of space and time, moves in an unknown direction, which will be determined by the audience.

Moscow, Mamonovsky lane, 10

The premiere took place on 09.10.2015.

Theater on Malaya Bronnaya invites you to the premiere performance of director Yegor Arsenov "The True Story of Freken Bock"... This is an extraordinary one-man show performed by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Durova.

The author of the play, Oleg Mikhailov, offers to get acquainted with the famous "house-tormentor" from the book about the Kid and Carlson from a completely different perspective. Working in the house of the Svanteson family is just an episode in the life of Miss Bok, who was the same age as the last century. Now she is many years old, her husband died long ago, but there are no children. Freken Bock still lives in the Swedish wilderness among her old belongings - suitcases, floor lamps, sewing machines, televisions and old furniture. Talking with them, with the audience, and even with herself, she begins to recall aloud the story of her long life. And suddenly, from an old shuffling ruin, Miss Bok turns into a little provincial girl. And together with her, viewers see objects come to life: the sewing machine turns out to be a steam locomotive, and the floor lamp turns out to be a doctor for whom she once served. Before us will appear a completely different Miss Bok - a kind, mischievous, loving woman who knows how to believe in a dream. In the finale of the performance, she goes out the window, as if she knows for sure that they are waiting for her - either in a house on the roof, or in heaven ...

The premiere took place on 28.08.16.

Main stage Theater on Malaya Bronnaya is waiting for its guests at the premiere of the play "Trees die while standing" based on the play by the Spanish playwright Alejandro Cason, directed by Yuri Ioffe. In the plot of the play, two elements converge - love and sacrifice, two passions - to live and play, entering into a desperate battle with cruel life circumstances.

An elderly couple who lost their children raised their grandson, who went on a criminal path, and 20 years ago ran away from home. All these years, grandfather, Señor Balboa, has been writing letters to his beloved wife on his behalf. Instead of a thief and a bandit, he creates the image of an intelligent and kind person, a talented architect, a happy family man. "Letters" from the grandson bring the inconsolable grandmother back to life. Señor Balboa hires comedians posing as Mauricio and his young wife, who have come to visit their nest. And here the skillful farce almost turns into a tragedy. For each of the heroes, this story becomes a test of nobility and humanity.

Moscow, st. Malaya Bronnaya, 4

The premiere will take place on November 25, 2016.

Legendary Small theater invites viewers to watch a new stage version of the comedy "Every day is not Sunday" based on one of the most witty and funny plays by the great Russian playwright A. Ostrovsky. It’s hard to believe, but this year marks 145 years since this performance was staged at the Maly Theater. The new production of the play is presented by the Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation Vitaly Ivanov. The music for the play was written by the composer Maxim Dunaevsky. The cautionary story of a modest girl Agnia from a poor family will be presented to the attention of the audience. Two people are trying to get her hand - the rich merchant Akhov and his clerk Ippolit. The arrogant merchant Akhov consoles himself with the thought that money and expensive gifts decide everything, believing that the naive twenty-year-old Agnia will be seduced by his wealth. But sincere feelings are more important than material wealth, and, appreciating courage, courage and determination, Agnia gives her consent to Hippolytus.

The premiere took place on 03/15/16.

Small theater invites its viewers to another premiere of the new season - a fun performance based on the early stories of A.P. Chekhov (then still Antosha Chekhonte) "Rereading Chekhov" staged by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Elena Olenina. The play combines nine Chekhov's stories - "Joy", "Who to Pay", "Comedian", "In a Foreign Land", "Long Tongue", "Defenseless Creature", "Diplomat", "Wallet" and "Lucky". Chekhov, like no one else, knew how to subtly and ironically ridicule human vices, the desire for profit and easy money. The heroes of the play are smart and cunning, laugh and sad, find themselves in unexpected comic situations. The problems raised by the classic are still relevant in our time, so the performance is quite modern and looks in the same breath.

Moscow, st. Bolshaya Ordynka, 69

The premiere took place on 22.03.16.

Small theater presents a new play directed by Andrey Tsisaruk "Late love" based on the play of the same name by A. Ostrovsky. Perhaps this is one of the most touching works of the classics. The once famous, but now impoverished, Moscow lawyer Margaritov rents a room with his adult daughter Lyudmila. A bookcase, a desk, a hanger, a table and a bench - this is the uncomplicated interior of the "boondocks". But even in this unremarkable atmosphere of measured life, passions are sometimes played out. The daughter is in love with the master's son Nikolai, a dissolute and riotous guy. To save her beloved, Lyudmila is ready to deceive her father and go to steal an important document. Where will her desperate act lead? Through subtle acting, the audience will be led through the labyrinths of the human soul, made to sympathize, laugh, empathize, tremble and hope ... A play about love - real, funny, venal, timid and strong. About late love ...

Moscow, st. Bolshaya Ordynka, 69

The premiere took place on 20.12.15

"Chanterelle. Love"- the first opera premiere of the 50th anniversary season Children's musical theater them. Natalia Sats... The play is based on Leoš Janáček's opera The Adventures of the Cheat Fox. The seemingly simple life of the main character Chanterelle in the retelling of the theater actors becomes as complex as the life of each of us. “The story of Chanterelle, who lives, falls in love, raises children, and then dies - this is a parable about the cyclical nature of life, that winter turns into spring, spring - into summer, summer - into autumn, and so from year to year, always. There is no pathos in this, but only this is the point, ”says the director of the play, Georgy Isahakyan. The play is addressed primarily to adolescents, teenagers, young people who are just entering adulthood, thinking about its meaning, about love, about losses and about their place in this huge, complex and beautiful world ...

Moscow, Vernadsky Ave., 5

The premiere of the performance is 16 and 17.10.16.

Another extraordinary premiere in theater named after N. Sats- play "Love Kills" based on the opera by Juan Hidalgo de Polanco on the text of the great Pedro Calderón de la Barca “Celos aun del aire matan” (“Jealousy kills with one glance”). This opera, which is an outstanding but little-known phenomenon of the “Spanish baroque opera-zarzuela”, was staged a few times during its three and a half centuries of existence and even today remains the most majestic masterpiece of this genre, preserved in its entirety. The play was created by director Georgy Isahakyan in collaboration and thanks to the enthusiasm and encyclopedic knowledge of one of the best Baroque harpers in Europe, Grammy award winner, Andrew Lawrence-King. The famous conductor described this opera production in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta as follows: Love Kills is a Spanish-Spanish opera: a bright, dynamic, explosive mixture of tragedy and comedy, with fiery rhythms and wonderful melodies. And I'm sure the audience will love her from the first sounds. "