Ratings are a great opportunity to understand where to go or what to buy: they perfectly reflect the opinion of society and help to make the right choice. However, the ratings of theaters, and especially the rating “The Best Theaters of Moscow”, are very conditional, because in art it is so difficult to understand who is the best and who is only in second or third place.
However, you can make the top 10 theaters in Moscow by the number of sensational premieres or long-playing performances with full houses, by star names in the troupe or among directors, by status or prestige, and by how popular the theater is with the audience, how quickly tickets are taken apart and how often there is a full house.
The Bolshoi Theatre
The first place, of course, was given to the Bolshoi Theater. Without a doubt, this is the best theater in Moscow. His rating is so high that for 250 years, a trip to the Bolshoi is a great event for any theatergoer and inexperienced audience. You can get here by metro to the station "Teatralnaya" or "Okhotny Ryad".
His operas and ballets are the pride of the nation. What names did not dazzle on his posters: Galina Ulanova, Elena Obraztsova, Maya Plisetskaya, Maris Liepa, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Alexander Godunov, Galina Vishnevskaya, Ivan Kozlovsky ... And this is only one hundredth of the names. Today, the theater’s repertoire includes classical and modern productions, many ballets and musical performances for children from 6 years old. You need to book a ticket to the Bolshoi in advance - at least 3 months before the show, and you can buy it only with your passport - this is how the administration fights with resellers. The price of tickets on average is 2-3 thousand rubles, although there are 12 thousand.
Maly Theater
Located at: Teatralny proezd, 1. The theater got its name only because of its size - smaller than that of the Bolshoi. Turgenev and Ostrovsky wrote plays for him, and still these performances are in the repertoire of the theater. In addition to them, you can see other performances by Gogol, Zola, Schiller, Dumas, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and other classics.
Tickets are more affordable than in the Bolshoi - from 200 to 2500 rubles.
Moscow Art Theater Chekhov
Big and Small are certainly the best theaters in Moscow and Russia, but there are other worthy scenes besides them. For example, the Moscow Art Theater. A distinctive feature of this Melpomene temple is its focus on contemporary drama. Here, directors and actors are looking for new theatrical forms in the spirit of the best Chekhov traditions. The most popular productions are Amadeus, The White Guard, and Pickwick Club. Theater Address: Kamergersky Lane, 3, metro station “Tretyakovskaya”.
Ticket price - from 1800 rubles. on the balcony up to 2800 rubles. to the stalls.
Theater "Contemporary"
A unique theater, which began with just one performance, shown by graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School in 1956. In the 70s it was close to closure, but it not only survived, but also became a successful and prosperous world-famous theater. Today Sovremennik is included in the list of "The Best Theaters of Moscow", and not only of Moscow, but of the whole country. He is the only one in Russia who has been awarded the American Dramatic Art Prize.
Today, such famous and popular actors as Chulpan Khamatova, Arthur Smolyaninov, Marina Neyolova, Sergey Makovetsky and many others play on its stage. You will have to pay between 300 and 1000 rubles for a ticket to the balcony, and a place in the amphitheater will cost 3-5 thousand rubles, depending on the performance. You can watch the plays by Chekhov, Ostrovsky, Griboedov, Show, productions based on the works of Remarque, Bergman, etc.
The theater is located on Chistoprudny Boulevard, 19a. By metro you need to go to the station "Elektrozavodskaya".
Lenkom
The list of "The best theaters in Moscow" would not be complete without the Lenkom Theater. He is also called the most stellar, because the legends of the national theater and cinema - Leonid Bronevoy, Inna Churikova, Nikolai Karachentsov, Maria Mironova, Victor Verzhbitsky and many others - appear on the stage here. The repertoire is the most diverse: here Gogol, and Chekhov in the company of Aristotle, and Beaumarchais. The best productions in theaters of Moscow and the most popular performances are “The Balakirev Jester”, the productions of Mark Zakharov “Juno and Avos” and “Per Gunt” with Anton Shagin.
You can buy a ticket to the theater at the box office on Malaya Dmitrovka, d.6 or directly on the website. A ticket to the stalls will cost 3,000 rubles, an amphitheater ticket will cost about 2,000, and you can buy a seat for 600 rubles in the far rows of the mezzanine.
Studio Theater Oleg Tabakov
This is a theater that is affectionately called Snuffbox. Perhaps the best comedies are staged here. In the theaters of Moscow you can have a wonderful rest. This hall is atmospheric and cozy, here, as avid theater-goers say, there are trusting relationships between actors and spectators.
You can feel the atmosphere of the young and popular Melpomene temple at the following address: st. Chaplygina, 1a, building 1, metro Chistye Prudy. A ticket to the stalls here costs from 1.5 to 3.5 thousand rubles, to an amphitheater or mezzanine - 1 thousand, and you can go to the balcony for only 600 rubles.
Theater of Nations
The best theaters in Moscow include the popular and modern "Theater of Nations", it is located in Petrovsky Lane, 3. Most of the productions are innovative, rethinking the usual classical works - the modernized Figaro by Kirill Serebrennikov; “Shakespeare's Sonnets”, which bizarrely combined the works of Shakespeare and the worlds of Tarkovsky; “Hamlet”, in which all roles are played by only one actor; “Gargantua and Pantagruel” to the accompaniment of Russian pop music - you can continue indefinitely, but it's better to see everything with your own eyes. The price of tickets is from 200 rubles for the most distant ranks to 10,000 per stall for high-profile premieres.
Satyricon
The theater was founded by Arkady Raikin, and today its repertoire is very diverse. The troupe is subject to any genre - from comedies (“London Show”, “Taming”) to classical plays (“Othello”, “King Lear”, “The Seagull”).
Tickets cost from 300 to 5,000 rubles, depending on location and performance. Address: Sheremetyevskaya street, 8.
Workshop of Peter Fomenko
A young bright theater, in the troupe of which are entirely modern idols and young stars - Evgeny Tsyganov, sisters Kutepovs, Madeleine Dzhabrailova, Galina Tyunina, Kirill Pirogov, Polina Agureeva. The main director of most of the productions is maestro Fomenko himself. The troupe of the theater - frequent guests and laureates of various festivals and theater awards around the world.
The theater is waiting for spectators on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 30/32. Tickets cost from 500 rubles to 5000, you can book directly on the theater website or buy at its box office.
Theater named after Vakhtangov
This theater can hardly be called young - it is already 200 years old, but each of its productions is fresh and modern. Moreover, there is no difference - buying a ticket for the premiere or watching a long time “run-in” classic: the production will make an indelible impression. Theatricals recommend watching “Marriage of Balsaminov”, “Zoykin’s apartment”, “Anna Karenina”, “March of the idols”.
Look for the beautiful historical building of the theater on Arbat, house 26. The ticket price is from 200 to 2800 rubles.