The Moscow Art Theatre was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir N
Interior of the "Old" MAT in Kamergersky Lane, originally Lianozov Theatre, as rebuilt in 1900–1903 by Fyodor Schechtel with contribution by Anna Golubkina and Ivan Fomin.
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre today (Kamergersky Lane, exterior by Fyodor Schechtel).
From left to right: Ivan Moskvin, Konstantin Stanislavski, Feodor Chaliapin, Vasili Kachalov, Saveli Sorine, in the US in 1923.
Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, whose play The Blue Bird, made its worldwide debut at the theatre
Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski was a seminal Russian and Soviet theatre practitioner. He was widely recognized as an outstanding character actor, and the many productions that he directed garnere
Moscow Art Theatre
…Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (MHAT)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the…
Glikeriya Fedotova, a student of Shchepkin, encouraged Stanislavski to reject inspiration, embrace training and observation, and to "look your partner straight in the eyes, read his thoughts in his eyes, and reply to him in accordance with the expression of his eyes and face."
Stanislavski with his soon-to-be wife Maria Lilina in 1889 in Schiller's Intrigue and Love.
Stanislavski as Othello in 1896.