Theater Center on Strastnoy in Moscow

The theater center of the STD RF "On Strastnom" is a unique non-profit venue in Moscow. Its founder, inspirer and curator is the Union of Theater Workers of Russia and personally its chairman A. A. Kalyagin. This is not a repertory theater, but a space open to the implementation of experimental cultural projects - plays and performances, exhibitions and installations, lectures, master classes and film screenings. The center has been actively developing since the mid-2000s and, thanks to the nonconformist policies of its leadership, in a short time it has become an authoritative institution that sets the tone for the capital’s theatrical life. “On Strastnoy” you can see both the debut works of beginning authors and sensational projects of leading masters of modern theater. The theater center "On Strastnom" holds festivals, tours, club evenings, public lectures, concerts, exhibitions, charity events, and special projects. The center provides a platform for independent work for students of theater universities, young directors, choreographers, musicians, and artists. The “Na Strastnoy” shopping center traditionally hosts the Reception of the Chairman of the Union of Trade Unions of the Russian Federation and the ceremony of presenting the Moscow annual award of the Union of Sports Theater of the Russian Federation “Highlight of the Season”. Anniversaries of famous actors and directors, creative meetings, and memorial evenings are regularly held at the Theater Center as part of the permanent “Club Evenings” project. Evenings in memory of Oleg Borisov, Mikhail Tsarev, Anatoly Efros, actor's gatherings, actor's and student skits, ready-to-wear shows, exhibitions of actors' crafts - all these are “Club Evenings” at the shopping center “On Strastnoy”. The ideology on which the work of the site is based is innovative thinking and openness to experimentation, thanks to which there is no doubt that in the future the space “On Strastnoye” will become a place for the implementation of the most daring ideas.