Moscow Art Theatre School () is the

studio school A studio school is a type of specialist secondary school in England that is designed to give students practical skills in workplace environments as well as traditional academic and vocational courses of study. Like traditional schools, studio s ...

of the

Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre () is a drama theatre in Moscow founded in 1987 after the division of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre into two theatres. Since 1989, it has been named after Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, one of its main authors. In 2004, it ret ...

. It is a state educational institution that has existed since 1943. The initiator of the studio school was

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (; – 25 April 1943) was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how t ...

.Школа-студия МХАТ: История
mhatschool.theatre.ru Open three faculties — the cast (training — 4 years, the competition — 30 per place), staging (training — 5 years, the contest — 3 persons per place) and Producer (training — 5 years, the competition — 4 persons per place). Form of study — full-time.

History

The idea of the studio-school was expressed for the first time at the meeting of the leaders of Moscow Art Theater on March 21, 1943. It was the last will of the director and pedagogue

, who died of a heart attack a month later, April 25, 1943. The following day (April 26, 1943), a special resolution of the

Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the government of Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1946. It was established by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasant ...

was published, which contained a clause relating to the creation of the studio school. The studio-school was inaugurated on October 20, 1943. The first rector was the theater director and critic Vassili Grigorievich Sakhnovski. The first class consisted of 27 students graduating in 1947. In the 1940s, there was just one faculty for drama theater and cinema actors. In 1987, a new branch for theater painters was opened under the direction of Valeri Yakovlevich Levental. During 1989, a new department for artist-technologists for stage costume was opened under the direction of the People's Artist of Russia Eleonora Petrovna Maklakova. The Department for lighting artists was opened in 1988. In 1991, a department of theater management was established in the theatre school. In 2005, the department was transformed into a producer faculty.

Rectors

(in chronological order) * Vasily Sahnovsky (1943–1945) * Veniamin Radomyslensky (1945–1980) * Nikolai Alekseev (1980–1983) * Vadim Krupitsky (1984–1986) *

Oleg Tabakov Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (; 17 August 1935 – 12 March 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor and the Artistic Director of the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). Biography Tabakov was born in Saratov into a family of do ...

(1986–2000)Valery Vyzhutovich (26 March 2010
Театр успешен, когда зал полон
pnp.ru * Anatoly Smelyansky (2000–2013) * Igor Zolotovitsky (2013–present)

References

External links

Сайт школы-студии МХАТ

Школа-студия МХАТ на сайте ЦМПК
{{authority control Educational institutions established in 1943 1943 establishments in Russia Drama schools in Russia Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow