École des pièces contemporaines, Theatre on Trubnaya Square, Moscow, Russia

The School of Contemporary Plays (Teatr na Trubnoy) occupies a light-blue three-storey building at the corner of Neglinnaya Street, 29/14, on Trubnaya Square, once the site of the Hermitage restaurant. Its ground floor has a rusticated base with arched doorways, the upper floors tall rectangular windows framed by white pilasters and cornices, and the roof is a low faceted metal structure. Inside are a 380-seat main hall and the smaller Zimniy Sad hall of about 200 seats.

Founded by director Iosif Raikhelgauz, the theatre opened on 27 March 1989 with the play "A Man Came to a Woman" by Semyon Zlotnikov, which won prizes for directing and for actors Albert Filozov and Lyubov Polishchuk. Late that year it received the building at Neglinnaya 29/14, a former Hermitage restaurant, and performed there from 1990 in a 380-seat hall. A fire on 3 November 2013 forced the company to play at other venues until the restored building reopened on 25 January 2019.

The theatre's name comes from its founding mission: staging new drama. Its first production, "A Man Came to a Woman" by Semyon Zlotnikov, premiered on 27 March 1989 and ran until 2008, performed 500 times. The building on Neglinnaya Street, 29/14, once housed the Hermitage restaurant; its main hall seats 380, and the small Zimny Sad stage opened in 1998 with about 200 seats.

The theatre stands at the corner of Neglinnaya Street 29/14 by Trubnaya Square, in the building of the former Hermitage restaurant. Its main hall seats 380 and the small Zimniy Sad stage about 200. After the 2013 fire, performances moved to the Krosna and Serafimovich culture houses until the restored building reopened in 2019.

The building at Neglinnaya 29/14 once housed the Hermitage restaurant before the theatre took it over in 1989. A fire on 3 November 2013 forced performances into other venues until the restored historic building reopened on 25 January 2019 with the gala improvisation "Truba zovyot".