The Maly Theater has announced eight premieres and a large-scale tour in the new season.

The State Academic Maly Theater is preparing eight premiere performances for the audience in the new theater season. This was announced by Alexey Dubrovsky, chief director of the State Academic Maly Theater, at the Izvestia News Center on August 27 during a press conference dedicated to the opening of the 270th theatrical season at this theater.

In mid-September, the premiere of the play "The Defense of Luzhin" by Vladimir Nabokov, directed by Vladimir Danai, winner of the theater's directing laboratory, will take place on the small stage of the Ordynka branch. Then, on September 20, viewers will see a comedy about the Windsor wives starring People's Artist Svetlana Amanova. The director will be Alexander Velmakin.

In November, the theater will present "Anna Karenina" based on Leo Tolstoy directed by Andrei Prikotenko with Polina Dolinskaya in the title role. In winter, for the first time in Russia, a play by Empress Catherine will be staged at the Ordynka.

"Her play "The Upset Family" will be staged for the first time, directed by Andrey Maksimov. And our new stage, which we recently opened on Serpukhovskaya Street, will feature a play based on Stefan Zweig's novels. It will be directed by Asya Knyazeva," the director clarified.

In spring, the premiere of "The White Guard" by Mikhail Bulgakov directed by Dubrovsky will take place on the historical stage of the theater. Pygmalion directed by Gleb Podgorodinsky will be presented at the Ordynka branch. The performance "Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" by Vladimir Dorogunov will end the season.

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The theater has also planned a large-scale tour of Russia. In September, the band will travel to Kazan with performances of "The Marriage of Balzaminov," "The Gamblers," and "The Penniless." The Maly Theater will open the 25th anniversary Volkovsky Festival in Yaroslavl with the play "Lev Gurych Sinichkin". In Nizhny Novgorod, as part of the anniversary of the Rosatom state Corporation, the play "Physics" will be shown, and in November in Samara, "Turmoil" based on the work by Vladimir Medinsky will be presented. The touring performances will be shown in full format, with sets and costumes, without any cuts.

On May 15, a performance in the genre of "folk tale for adults" was staged at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. The artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater Konstantin Khabensky and the writer Alexander Tsypkin created the play "Once upon a Time There was a House" based on their own composition. The production consists of nine stories united by a common ending.

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