Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre, Regional cultural theatre in Leninsky District, Perm, Russia.
Perm Academic Theatre is a theatrical venue in Leninsky District with a stage that seats more than 1,000 spectators. The building presents over 25 different productions throughout the season.
The theatre started in 1927 as an amateur movement and staged daring works including Battleship Potemkin. It later evolved into a professional institution presenting new productions regularly.
The theatre's name changed in 2007 from Perm Academic Drama Theatre to Theatre-Theatre. Its repertoire spans drama, musicals and ballet, performed on the main stage and the small stage known as Scena-Molot, which opened in the reconstructed hall in 2009. Artistic director Boris Milgram has led the company since 2012, having first held the post in 2004-2008.
The theatre stands on the Esplanade in the centre of Perm, in a building completed in 1981 to designs by V. P. Davydenko and V. I. Lyutikova. Performances run on two stages: the main hall and the smaller Scena-Molot stage. The building is a regional architectural monument; its facade cladding was renewed in 2005.
The theatre's first performance, Battleship Potemkin after a dramatic poem by G. A. Shengeli, premiered on 14 March 1927, when the troupe still had no permanent building and staged up to 25 new plays a month with its own sets and costumes. In late 1929 the young workers' theatre was given the former Perm synagogue on Bolshevik Street, 116.
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