Theatre on the South-West was founded in 1977, People's Artist of Russia Valery Belyakovich. Originally it was an amateur theater-studio in the outlying district of Moscow. The actors were students, workers and employees. The theater building they built themselves on their own. The theater hall was one hundred seats.

In 1985 the theater was awarded the title "People's Theatre". In 1986, the theater received the award of the Moscow Komsomol. In 1987, the theater took part in a theatrical experiment - the transition to self-sufficiency and sustainability. The theater became a permanent member of various theater festivals and parades, both in Russia and abroad. The theater is well known in Poland, Finland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Italy, Germany, the UK and Austria, the Netherlands, the USA and Japan. Theatre on the South-West were characterized as representing a new Russian art in the public.

In 1991, the theater received the status of the State Theatre of the Committee for Culture of Moscow. Since 2011, the theater's artistic director is Oleg Leushin. The troupe young actors: Olga Avilov Dmitry Astapenko Mikhail Belyakovich Nadezhda Bychkova, Victor Borisov and others.

Theatre performances captivate viewers brightness and novelty of the director's decision, harmonious ensemble playing, unusual candor actors, civic, entertainment. The director's decision plays in modern rhythms, in the streams of light and music, opens a new classical pieces. Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov and Gogol get a new, sometimes startling sound. The playbill many diverse performances: "Marriage" by Gogol, "Caligula" Camus. "Macbeth" by Shakespeare, "The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov. "The Lower Depths" Gorky. "Too married cabman" by Ray Cooney, "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles, "Dogs" Sergienko, and many others.