The State Dramatic Theatre on Liteyny Avenue (Государственный драматический Театр на Литейном) is a theatre at 51 Liteyny Avenue, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1909. Konstantin Tverskoy worked at the Liteinyi Theatre as director, Savely Schleifer (1881–1943) as designer. The Narodnaia Komedia (January 1920) took up Meyerhold's experiments from the Liteyni and Hermitage Theatre. The theatre produced many unusual offerings. In 1909 the Japanese play Terakoya was presented. Boris Romanov (1891-1957) choreographed the cabaret The Goatlegged, and Arkady Averchenko contributed sketches and vaudevilles.
In 1993 the Liteinyi's theatre troupe toured America with a production of George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine in Russian.
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- website in Russian
- David Zolotnitsky Sergei Radlov: The Shakespearian Fate of a Soviet Director 1998 Page 7 "It was organized at the beginning of 1919 (at 51, Liteiny Prospect) by the director Konstantin Tverskoy, the artist Yuri Bondi and some of the former members of Meyerhold's studio in Borodinskaya Street. Radlov started there as director ..
- Jeremy Howard The Union of Youth: an artists' society of the Russian avant-garde p227 Savelii Shleiffer
- J. Douglas Clayton Pierrot in Petrograd 1993 Page 112 "THE POPULAR COMEDY - On 8 January 1920 the Popular Comedy theatre (Narodnaia komediia) opened in Petrograd. ... two other theatres - the Studio on Liteinyi Street (Studiia na Liteinom) and the Hermitage Theatre (Ermitazhnyi teatr) in the ..."
- Stanca Scholz-Cionca, Samuel L. Leiter - Japanese Theatre and the International Stage - Page 36 2001 "... in Berlin, directed by Woldemar Runge and, during the 1909–10 season, in the Liteiny Theatre in St. Petersburg."
- Lynn Garafola - Legacies of twentieth-century dance - Page 70 2005 "At the Liteiny Theater, ..."
- Mikhail Beĭzer, Martin Gilbert - The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past - Page 305 1989 "5. Jewish Drama Theater. Address: Liteiny Prospekt (briefly Prospekt Volodarskogo) 42 (1922) (extant)"
- Martin Banham The Cambridge Guide to Theatre - Page 68 - 1995 "... he contributed short comic sketches and vaudevilles to the Liteiny, Crooked Mirror and Troitsky Theatres in St Petersburg."
- A window on Russia: papers from the V International Conference of ... Volume 1994 Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia. International Conference, Maria Di Salvo, Lindsey Hughes - 1996 "... the latter in Russian by Petersburg's Na Liteinom troupe directed by Gennadij Trostianetskii."
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