Moscow Academic Theatre named after Vl. Mayakovsky - one of the oldest theaters in Moscow with the famous team of actors. The theater is located on the street. B. Nikitskaya, in a building that was built in 1886 for the famous foreign guest performers. At the theater played a world-famous artists: Eleonora Duse, Coquelin senior, Coquelin, Jr., Ernesto Possart, Sarah Bernhardt, and many other European actors. The theater was called "International".

Since 1920 to 1922 the building was revolutionary theater satire - "Terevsat." From 1922 to 1943 - Theater of the Revolution. Its head is appointed by Vsevolod Meyerhold. Since that time the history of the modern theater. Ow. Mayakovsky. Meyerhold directed the theater two years. Then the theater was headed by leader of the Soviet culture - A. Popov. From 1941 to 1943 the theater was evacuated to Tashkent. In 1943 the theater returned to Moscow. His actors joined the troupe of the Moscow Theatre of the Leningrad City Council and the Moscow Drama Theater. Led Theatre N. Okhlopkov. From 1943 until 1954, the theater was called "Moscow Drama Theater." Name Vladimir Mayakovsky Theatre was in 1954.

In 1968 he became director of the theater Goncharov. He directed the theater until 2001, more than thirty years. In this period we were delivered the most significant performances: "Talents and Admirers", "Rout", "Conversations with Socrates," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The defeat," "The Seagull", "Running", "Life of Klim Samgin", "Lady Macbeth, "" Fruits of Enlightenment "," Doll's House "," the first Napoleon. "

In 2002 the theater got a new director - S. Artsibashev. His first production was the play "Marriage" by Gogol. The performance was a great success. The following statement, carried Artsibashev was a performance of "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In 2005, the premiere of "Dead Souls" NV Gogol. Artsibashev was director of the play and leading role in it - Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov.

Theater Vl. Mayakovsky has always been famous for its actors. It worked M. Babanov, M. Strauch, Boris Tenin, Dzhigarkhanyan A., T. Doronin, A. Yakovlev, S. Nemolyaeva, N. Gundareva, I. Kostolevsky, E. Simon, and many others.