3 Best Performing Arts Venues in Kitai Gorod, Moscow

Moscow's first dramatic theater, opened in 1824, is famous for its staging of Russian classics, especially those of the 19th-century satirist Alexander Ostrovsky—his statue stands outside the building.

The theater stages lighthearted, and much humbler, versions of Western musicals, as well as the latest Russian musicals.

This well-respected theater housed in a columned white stone building on leafy bulvar Chistoprudny stages a mix of Russian classics and foreign adaptations.