The Dnipro Academic Drama and Comedy Theatre () is a 19th-century city theatre and an architectural monument in the city of

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper R ...

, Ukraine. It is one of the city's oldest theatres.

History

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group, consisting of its director Vladimir Ermolov-Borozdin, which was then touring the area, served as the head for the new theatre, which was established on the site of the Lazar Hloba Park in 1927, by a resolution made by the municipal council's executive committee.

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's Lyubov Yarova was the first to be performed. In front of 1,200 spectators,

Feodor Chaliapin Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin ( rus, Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, ˈfʲɵdər ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ʂɐˈlʲapʲɪn}; April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass v ...

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, and Ivan Patorzhinsky gave performances. Nearly all of

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

's works were performed on stage during the late 1920s and early 1930s of the previous century, and in 1927 the theatre was renamed to the Gorky Russian Drama and Comedy Theatre in his honor. Aleksandr Krasnoselsky's concept, which intended to rebuild the theater in a

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prior to

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, was never fully implemented. The theatre was moved to

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during

, and after the

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departed the city, the building was bombed and mined. The theatre made a comeback to the city in the summer of 1944, with the building and repertory actively restored. The theater was entirely damaged during the war, but it was reconstructed in 1956 to resemble it did before. Within the canon of contemporary drama and comedic theater productions include works by both contemporary and classic authors at the theatre. In December 2006, it was renamed to its present-day name of Dnipro Theatre of Comedy and Drama. The theatre received the honorific designation of "Academic" in 2007. Serhii Mazani has served as the theatre's creative director since 2018. The theatre's principal director, Anton Serhiiovych Mezhenin, has been carrying on the drama and comedy theatrical traditions since 2021. The theater's boiler room was renovated that same year. On 10 May 2022, with the involvement of artists from the Dnipro,

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regions, the Dnipro Academic Drama and Comedy Theater arranged a unique event on a performance for

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and

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caused by the

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. The PrizrenFest festival in

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debuted in July 2023 with the performance Maidan Inferno by the Dnipro Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy.

Gallery

File:Скульптуры на фасаде.jpg, Sculptures on the theatre's exterior in 2006 File:Theatre меамр цм Торькото 26dec09 3469.JPG, The theatre in 2009 File:NSH Dnipropetrovs'k Zymoviy Teatr 002 (detail).JPG, Commemorative

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at the theatre in 2013 File:Зимовий театр.jpg, Main entrance to the theatre in 2012 File:Зимовий театр 01.jpg, The theatre seen from the side in 2015

References

External links

{{State Theaters of Ukraine 1927 establishments in Ukraine Theatres in Dnipro Culture in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast