Ryazan Theatre for Children and Youth
About the company:
From 1862 to 1961. The Ryazan Drama Theatre was located in the building opposite the present places. In 1862 it was a wooden building, which soon burned down, but was restored by the provincial architect S.A. Shchetkin after 4 years. In 1885, the building of the theater was given for storage of crackers and ammunition of soldiers. The theater reopened on December 17, 1893.
Since 1919 – the Ryazan Soviet Theater, the first performance of which was “Enemies” based on the play by M. Gorky. In 1937 it was transformed into a regional theater. During this period, the actress of the Moscow Chamber Theatre A.L. Miklashevskaya worked here. In 1941, the theater was evacuated to Buzuluk. In 1948-1953, the theater staff was led by A.I. Kanin, who staged almost all of Gorky’s plays here and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1951. Many famous directors and actors worked in the theater at different times. A noticeable trace in the theatrical history of Ryazan was left by directors, Honored Artists of the RSFSR D. Mansky, A. Efros, Honored Artist of the RSFSR S. Isayev, People's Artists of the RSFSR N. Bogolyubov, S. Astafiev, S. Romodanov and others.
The building of the theater is a rectangular building, stretched along a transverse axis, with lateral wings running along this axis. The lobby of the theater has an octagonal shape, to the left and right of it there are foyers and stairwells. Auditorium semicircular shape is designed for five hundred seats. On the facade - profiled casings around double semicircular windows, the facade is completed by three kokoshniks with round niches, in which busts and lyre are inserted.
In the 1950s, the theater building no longer accommodated everyone. In 1961, a new building was built on Yamskaya Square, renamed the Theatre Square.
After 1917, the Cathedral Square was renamed the Soviet Square. In the 1990s of the last century, it again became a cathedral.
The building on Soviet Square since 1962 housed the Ryazan Regional Theater for Young Spectators (since 1991 - the Ryazan State Theater for Children and Youth or the Theater on the Cathedral). Created December 193