The appearance in the city of Tver theater due to the unprecedented rise of the national Russian culture in Russia, which took place in the middle of the 18th century. Drama is not an exception among the other opening of cultural institutions. It was founded in 1745, acting at the seminary. While the seminary was at Fedorovsky monastery that on the island, where the Volga River empties into Tmaka. This theater, which consisted of professional actors, lasted about 30 years - he was a harbinger of the Municipal Theatre.

In mid-1787 it was built to accommodate the building of the theater. Performances were held in specially designed premises and public buildings. Initially, increasingly, they staged plays Verevkina MI, but soon it started to play Krylov IA In the early years of the 19th century acting troupe it was provided "free aristocratic society."

In 1848, for the needs of the theater was built a new building with the support of the merchant Sutugina. Soon the company was formed, consisting of well-known graduates of the Moscow School. The first was a comedy of Gogol NV "Marriage," which was a great success. Already by 1879 the Drama Theatre moved into the building of the national assembly. At the end of 1888 not only the theater, but also the public meeting were transferred to the spacious building of Gostiny Dvor, which was built by the Empress Catherine II in the course of millions of street. Now it is here, and there is a modern drama theater.

At that time the theater productions of both classical and modern drama, but also works such as "The Idiot" by FM Dostoevsky's "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" by A. Tolstoy, Molière's work "Tricks of Scapin" and "The Blue Bird" Maeterlinck.

In the period between 1926 and 1931 years of working in the theater troupe of four of which, to a greater extent allocated troupe Margaritova NV and Bryansk VM - These troupes will soon become essential. In mid-1934 the building was rebuilt a few, with built auditorium, designed for 1250 seats. The opening of the theatrical season in the new building has staged Vishnevsky "Optimistic Tragedy." In 1937 he became director of the theater Sergey Vinogradov, who concurrently manages and most respected in the city of Drama School.

As soon as the Great Patriotic War of the troupe was formed by a detachment of the People's Militia, but at the beginning of winter in 1942, they returned to his hometown. A month later, on the stage of the House of Officers he was represented by Simon's play "The guy from our city." During the war years the theater has played more than 170 productions, as well as about fifteen hundred concerts.

In the period from 1942 to 1951 Playhouse Youth Theatre he was in the room, but in 1951 the theater building accommodates 800 spectators, was renovated at the architect AP Maximov and engineer Tikhomirov IM

In the years 1962-1967 in the city of Tver Drama Theater was established a branch at the Moscow Art Theatre, which ended some famous actors: Khonina NV Gata VZ, Spivak AS, Sinitskii VA Over the lifetime of the Tver regional drama theater it worked following directors: Lobanov IP, Rostovtsev VS, Belov GP Lakshin AA Lelyanov OP, Vinogradov SV Popova EZ, Leshchev Vladimir Pastukhov NN and many others.

It is important to note that the theater with great success makes touring not only across the country but also in foreign countries. Particular success was waiting for him in Athens, where the performances were played in "Anna Karenina" and "The Cherry Orchard" when setting were not only Russian, but also in the Greek language.

Today, Drama Theatre has great success at its premiere every collects a huge amount of people.