Moscow Drama Theater headed by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Drama theater in Lomonosovsky District, Moscow, Russia.

The Moscow Drama Theater headed by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan occupies the building of the former Progress cinema on Kooperativnaya Street. Its main stage opened on Lomonosovsky Prospekt on 22 November 2002 with the premiere of Edvard Radzinsky's play "She in the Absence of Love and Death", directed by Yuri Ioffe. The company was founded in 1996 by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and G. G. Markosyan on the basis of a group of VGIK acting graduates.

It was created on 12 March 1996 by a Moscow government decree as the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, formed from graduates of his VGIK acting class and housed in the former Progress cinema. In 2021 it became the Progress Stage of the Satire Theater. It closed for major repairs from November 2025 to January 2027.

The theatre grew out of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan's acting class at VGIK, and its first seasons were built around his own solo show, Krapp's Last Tape, staged by Krikor Azaryan alongside Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. In 1998-1999 Sergei Gazarov renewed the company and staged Gogol's The Government Inspector, the production that anchored the repertoire. Actors from that second intake, among them Vladimir Kapustin and Alexei Shevchenkov, still perform here.

The venue sits in a convenient location within the Lomonosovsky neighborhood and is easily accessible by public transportation. Check show times before visiting, as performances vary by day of the week and the schedule changes with the season.

The theatre opened in the former Progress cinema on Kooperativnaya Street; its first seasons moved Armen Dzhigarkhanyan's one-man show Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett onto that stage, directed by Krikor Azaryan.