List of theatres in Ukraine

This list includes the theaters of Ukraine as of spring 2010 in accordance with the current administrative division of the state. This list, though incomplete, includes both state theaters (possibly all) and folk, as well as private.

National Opera of Ukraine

Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater

Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Theater

Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre

Kyiv

State-owned

• National Opera of Ukraine
• Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater
• Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Theater
• Kyiv National Academic Theatre of Operetta

Municipally-owned

• Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre for Children and Youth

Community-owned

• Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre
• Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre
• Kyiv Municipal Academic Puppet Theater
• Kyiv Academic Theater for Young Spectators on Lipskaia Street
• Kyiv Academic Drama Theater in Podil
• Kyiv Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of Dnieper
• Actor Theater
• Kyiv Puppet Theater
• Kyiv Academic Theater Workshop "Constellation"
• Kyiv Academic Theater "Koleso"
• Kyiv Gypsy Theater "Romance"
• Kyiv Academic Theatre of Ukrainian Folklore
• Ukrainian Small Drama Theater
• New Theatre on Pechersk
• Kyiv Academic Theater "Golden Gate"

Beyond the sphere of management of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine

• PostPlay
• Kyiv Drama Theater "Bravo"
• Dakh Theatre - Centre of Contemporary Arts
• Theater of Ukrainian Tradition "Dzerkalo"
• Theatre «Dyvnyy Zamok»
• Wild Theater
• Mykola Rushkovsky's Theater Workshop
• Youth Interactive Modern Theatre "Mist"
• Volodymyr Zavalnyuk's "Transformation" Theater
• Arts Center "New Ukrainian Theatre" on Mikhailovskaia Street
• Kyiv Millennium Theater
• Black Square Improvisation Theater-Studio

Sevastopol

• Sevastopol Academic Russian Drama Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky
• Theater for children and youth "On the Great Sea"
• Russian Drama Theater of the Black Sea Fleet named after V.A. Lavrenov
• Sevastopol Dance Theater under the direction of VA Elizarov

Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Simferopol

• Crimean Academic Russian Drama Theater named after Maxim Gorky
• Crimean Tatar Academic Music and Drama Theater
• Crimean Academic Ukrainian Musical Theater
• Crimean Academic Puppet Theater
• Simferopol Variety Ballet Theater "Phoenix"

Yevpatoria

• Evpatoria Pushkin Theater
• "Golden key" Children's Theater Complex
• Puppet Theater-Studio "Marionetky"
• Theater of choreographic miniatures
• Gender interactive theater
• Fire Theater "Wolfram"
• Living Sculpture Theater
• Stilts Theater
• Dance theater of the peoples of the world

Kerch

• Kerch Drama Theater named after Pushkin

Feodosia

• Feodosia Drama Theatre

Yalta

• Yalta Theater named after A.P. Chekhov

Vinnytsia Oblast

Vinnytsia Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Sadovsky

Vinnytsia

• Vinnytsia Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Sadovsky
• Vinnytsia Academic Regional Puppet Theater "Golden Key"

Volyn Oblast

Lutsk

• Volyn Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko
• Volyn Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater

Dnipro

• Dnipro Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
• Taras Shevchenko Dnipro Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre
• Dnipro Academic Drama and Comedy Theatre
• Dnipro State Circus
• Kryk Theatre
• Dnipropetrovsk City Puppet Theater
• Dnipropetrovsk Regional Youth Theater
• Dnipropetrovsk City Youth Theater-Studio "Virymo!"
• Dnipropetrovsk City Teleteatr
• Dnipropetrovsk City Theater "KVN DGU"

Kamianske

• Lesia Ukrainka Academic Music and Drama Theater in Kamianske

Kryvyi Rih

• Kryvyi Rih Drama and Musical Comedy Theater named after Taras Shevchenko
• Kryvyi Rih City Puppet Theater
• Kryvyi Rih Theater of Music and Plastic Arts "Academy of Movement"
• "AVE" Theater

Pavlohrad

• Pavlograd Drama Theater named after B.E. Zakhava

Nikopol

• Nikopol Ukrainian Folk Music and Drama Theater

Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovianenko

Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theatre

Donetsk Regional Theatre of Drama in Mariupol

Donetsk

• Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovianenko
• Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theatre
• Donetsk Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Mariupol

• Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre

Horlivka

• Horlivka Ukrainian State Drama Theater
• Horlivka City Puppet Theater

Makiivka

• Donetsk Regional Russian Theater for Young Spectators

Zhytomyr Oblast

Zhytomyr Theater named after Ivan Kocherga

Zhytomyr

• Zhytomyr Theater named after Ivan Kocherga
• Zhytomyr Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Zviahel

• Zviahel People's Amateur Theater
• Zviahel People's Youth Theater

Zakarpattia Oblast

Mukachevo Drama Theater

Uzhhorod

• Zakarpatsky Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater
• Transcarpathian Regional Puppet Theater "Bavka"

Mukachevo

• Mukachevo Drama Theater

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Zaporizhzhia

• Zaporizhzhia Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Volodymyr Magar
• Zaporizhzhia Academic Youth Theater
• Zaporizhzhia Regional Puppet Theater
• Zaporizhzhia Municipal Theater-Laboratory "VIE"
• Zaporizhzhia Municipal Dance Theater
• Zaporizhzhia Children's Theater "SVIYA"

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Horodenka

• Horodenka Theater SUCHASNYK

Ivano-Frankivsk

• Ivan Franko National Academic Music and Drama Theatre
• Ivano-Frankivsk Academic Regional Puppet Theater named after Mariika Pidhirianka

Kolomyia

• Kolomyia Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Ivan Ozarkevych

Kyiv Oblast

Bila Tserkva

• Kyiv Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after P.K. Saksagansky

Kirovohrad Oblast

Kropyvnytskyi

• Kirovohrad Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after ML Kropyvnytskyi
• Kirovohrad Regional Academic Puppet Theater

Luhansk Oblast

Luhansk Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater

Luhansk

• Luhansk Academic Regional Russian Drama Theater
• Luhansk Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Sievierodonetsk

• Luhansk Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater
• Severodonetsk City Drama Theater

Milove

• Luhansk Regional Cossack Equestrian Theater

Lviv Oblast

Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet

Lviv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Yuri Drohobych

Maria Zankovetska Theatre

Lviv

• Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet
• Maria Zankovetska Theatre
• Les Kurbas Theatre
• Lviv Regional Puppet Theater
• Lviv Academic Drama Theater named after Lesia Ukrainka
• Lviv Academic Theater "Voskresinnia"
• First Ukrainian theater for children and youth
• Theater-studio "Pid mostom"
• "Ne zhurysʹ!" Theater
• Theater-studio "I Liudy, I Lialʹky"

Drohobych

• Lviv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Yuri Drohobych

Chervonohrad

• Chervonohrad Drama Theater named after Lesia Ukrainka
• Chervonohrad Theater-Studio "Fantasy"
• Chervonohrad Children's Theater "Fairy Tale"

Mykolaiv Oblast

Mykolaiv

• Mykolaiv Academic Ukrainian Drama and Musical Comedy Theater
• Mykolaiv Academic Art Theatre of Drama
• Mykolaiv State Puppet Theatre

Odesa Oblast

Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre

The Theatre building on Hretska Street

Odesa

• Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre
• Odesa Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after V. Vasylko
• Odesa Academic Theater of Musical Comedy named after M. Vodiany
• Odesa Regional Puppet Theater
• Odesa Oblast Academic Drama Theater
• Odesa Theater for Young Spectators named after M. Ostrovsky
• Theater on Tea House Street

Poltava Oblast

Полтава

• Poltava Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Gogol
• Poltava Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Rivne Oblast

Rivne

• Rivne Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater
• Rivne Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Sumy Oblast

Sumy

• Sumy National Academic Drama and Musical Comedy Theater named after M.S. Shchepkin
• Sumy Regional Theater for Children and Youth

Ternopil Oblast

Ternopil

• Ternopil Academic Regional Drama Theater named after T.G. Shevchenko
• Ternopil Regional Academic Actor and Puppet Theatre

Pidhaitsi

• Pidhaietskyi Amateur Theater

Chortkiv

• People's Amateur Theater

Kopychyntsi

• Kopychyntsi National Theater named after Bohdan Lepky

Kremenets

• People's Amateur Theater at the House of Culture

Buchach

• People's Amateur Theater at the House of Culture

Nove Selo

• People's Amateur Theater at the House of Culture

Terebovlia

• People's Amateur Theater of Miniatures of Terebovlia Higher School of Culture

Shumsk

• People's Amateur Theater of the Shumsky Regional House of Culture

Golgocha

• Golgochansky People's Amateur Theater Collective

Kharkiv Oblast

Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Mykola Lysenko

Kharkiv Ukrainian Drama Theatre

Kharkiv

• Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Mykola Lysenko
• Kharkiv Ukrainian Drama Theatre
• Kharkiv State Academic Drama Theater
• Kharkiv State Academic Puppet Theater named after V.A. Afanasiev
• Kharkiv Academic Theater of Musical Comedy
• Kharkiv Theater for Children and Youth
• Theatre 19
• Kharkiv Theater "P.S."
• Maria Kovalenko Theater
• Theater Na Zhukah
• "Pari-Komik"
• New Theater
• Publicist Theater
• Amadeus Theater
• "Aparte" Theater
• Theater for people
• Kotelok Theater
• "Maybe" Theatre
• Poetry and music theater
• "Del Piero" French Comedy Theater
• "Stupeni" Theater-Studio
• Neft Theater

Kherson Oblast

Kherson

• Kherson Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Kulish
• Kherson Regional Puppet Theater

Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Khmelnytskyi

• Khmelnytski Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykhailo Starytsky
• Khmelnytski Academic Regional Puppet Theater
• Khmelnytsky Monotheater "Kut"

Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy

• Cherkasy Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko
• Cherkasy Academic Puppet Theater

Chernivtsi Oblast

Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater named after Olha Kobylianska

Chernivtsi

• Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater named after Olha Kobylianska
• Chernivtsi Academic Regional Puppet Theater

Chernihiv Oblast

Chernihiv

• Chernihiv Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko
• Chernihiv Regional Puppet Theater named after Dovzhenko
• Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater

Nizhyn

• Nizhyn Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after M. Kotsyubynsky

See also

• Theater in Ukraine
• Theatre of Coryphaei

External links

• Каталог театрів України на Igotoworld.com
• Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia: у 12 т. / гол. ред. М. П. Бажан ; редкол.: О. К. Антонов та ін. — 2-ге вид. — К. : Головна редакція УРЕ, 1974–1985.
• Театри опери та балету на Офіційний веб-сайт
• Музично-драматичні театри на Офіційний веб-сайт
• Луганські обласні театри на Офіційна веб-сторінка Управління культури і туризму Луганської обласної державної адміністрації
• Театральна Миколаївщина на Веб-сторінка Миколаївської обласної бібліотеки для дітей імені В. Лягіна
• Театри Луганська на www.relax.lg.ua («Відпочинок у Луганську»)
• Шелест Наталя Культура Дніпропетровська на www.internet-centr.dp.ua
• Театральне мистецтво у Дніпропетровській області на Офіційний веб-сайт
• Театри Криму на www.crimea-kurort.com (інфо-вебресурс «Крим курортний»)
• Кінотеатри і театри Євпаторії на evpatoriya.ru

Further reading

• Архітектура українського театру. Простір і дія / В. І. Проскуряков; Нац. ун-т «Львів. політехніка». — 2-е вид., виправл. і доповн. — Л. : Срібне слово, 2004. — 583 c. — Бібліогр.: с. 544–572.
• Закарпатський театр на порозі ХХІ століття / С. Федака. – Ужгород : Ліра, 2018. – 264 с.