The Kiev Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the Left Side of the Dnieper (the Theatre, for short) occupies a special place among other theatres of Ukraine. The Theatre, which was created as part of the democratic changes in the USSR (and Ukrainian) society in the late 1970s, is now widely known and popular among spectators and is influential among specialists.
The first meeting of the Theatre's company took place on 7 September 1978, while their first premiere was held on 21 April 1979 in the building of the Republican Puppet Theatre at 13 Rustaveli Street (Rodion Fedenyov's play The Highest Point is Love).
For many years, the Theatre did not have a building of its own. The Theatre's productions were performed at all Kiev's theatres and almost all the city's palaces of culture, including the Ukraine Palace of Culture and the Oktyabrsky Palace of Culture.
In May 1982, the city's authorities handed over the building of the Kosmos Cinema (on the left bank of the Dnieper River) to the Theatre. By the efforts of the company, the Lobby Theatre was set up in this building; at the time, this was the first small stage theatre in Kiev or, possibly, in the entire Ukraine. The redesigned building became the first Kiev's theatre on the left bank of the Dnieper River as well as the first new Kiev's theatre founded after the Second World War.
On 21 December 1990, the Theatre was officially opened with a performance of I am Always Your Fiancee (based on Otar Iosseliani).
In its work, the Theatre uses two languages, Russian and Ukrainian. The production of Vladimir Vinnichenko's play Lie (1992; staged by O. Balaban) was the first Ukrainian-language production at a Russian-speaking theatre.
An innovative approach to stage adaptation of Ukrainian classics helped to break strong stereotypes that had been used when dealing with traditional Ukrainian drama. The Witch based on Ivan Karpenko-Kary's The Fortuneless Maiden (staged by Dmitry Bogomazov), Olesya based on Mark Kropivnitsky's play of the same name (staged by Dmitry Lazorko), and Don't Love Two at the Same Time based on Mikhail Staritsky's Don't Go to Parties, Hryts! (staged by Nikolay Yaremkiv) are most vivid stage versions of the most well-known Ukrainian classical plays.
The Theatre has gone on tour to Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and Germany. In Ukraine, its productions have been performed in the cities of Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Sevastopol, Chernigov, Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk, Poltava, Ternopol, Drogobych (Lvov Region) and Uzgorod.
In 2000–2004, the Theatre took part in various international theatre festivals such as the Baltic House Festival, an international festival of the CIS and Baltic states in Saint Petersburg, Russia; the White Tower Festival in Brest, Belarus; the Let's Play Gogol Festival in Poltava, Ukraine; festivals for Russian classics in Gomel (Belarus), Togliatti (Russia) and Bryansk (Russia); the Chersonesos Games International Festival in Sevastopol, Ukraine; the Golden Lion International Festival in Lvov, Ukraine; the Festival of Good Theatre in the town of Energodar, Zaporozhye Region, Ukraine; the September Gems Festival in Kirovograd, Ukraine; the Season's Premiere Festival in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine; and others. During the same period, the Theatre participated in "days of Ukrainian culture" outside Ukraine (the production A Little Bit of Wine, based on novellas by Luigi Pirandello, was performed in Paris and Nans, France, while the show Mein Kampf, based on the play by George Tabori, represented the Kiev theatre culture at the Kiev Culture Days in Moscow).
The Theatre has won the Kiev Pectoral Award, the prestigious Ukraine's theatre award, over 15 times and almost in all the categories.
The Butterfly DeLuxe Cinema was opened in December of 2004.
The Cinema has 3 auditoriums:
– Antracite Auditorium;
– Blue Auditorium;
– Red Auditorium....
The Multiplex Cinema is situated in the Komod Shopping Mall.
The Cinema features 4 auditoriums:
– Rene Auditorium;
– Paradzhanov Auditorium;
– Grinko Auditorium;
– Sokurov Auditorium....
The Kiev Cinema (the Cinema, for short) was opened on 23 November 1952 in the building at 19 Krasnoarmeyskaya Street. Construction works on the building started as early as before the 1939–1945 Second World War. Thanks to novel solutions, the Cinema became one of the entire USSR's model cinemas.
In 2000, the Cinema started its first major repair...
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