Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Russia is home to more than a hundred theatres and theatre companies.Vse o Sankt-Peterburge, "Teatry Sankt-Peterburga"
This list includes theatre companies that regularly produce plays and buildings used for theatrical performances. The first permanent professional public theatre in Russia, the "Russian Theatre for the Performance of Tragedies and Comedies" (Русский для представления трагедий и комедий театр) was established in St. Petersburg in 1756 by order of Empress

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.''Sankt-Peterburg: Entsiklopediia'' (Moscow: Rossiiskaia politicheskaia entsiklopediia, 2006): 856–57. In 1785 the

Hermitage Theatre The Hermitage Theatre ( rus, Эрмитажный Театр, Èrmitážnyj Teátr, ɪrʲmʲɪˈtaʐnɨj tʲɪˈatər) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of five Hermitage buildings lining the Palace Embankment of the Neva River. The Hermitag ...

was opened in the Hermitage palace complex. This is the oldest theatre building in St. Petersburg that has been preserved in its original form.''Sankt-Peterburg: Entsiklopediia'' (Moscow: Rossiiskaia politicheskaia entsiklopediia, 2006): 983.

Dramatic theatres

Opera and ballet theatres

Musical theatres

Puppet theatres

Other theatres

Theatrical and concert venues

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Theatres in Saint Petersburg Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

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