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Moscow Art Theatre
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND
Moscow Art Theatre,
famous theatre, now dedicated to Maxim Gorky , founded by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1898. It soon gave a successful production of Chekhov's The Seagull , which had recently failed at another theatre. It was followed by Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904). The repertory of pre-Revolutionary plays included a number of European classics, but the only play by Shakespeare to be performed was Julius Caesar . During the upheavals of the Revolution the theatre was saved from extinction by the efforts of Lunacharsky , and ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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