The experimental theater center new drama "The Practice" was established by the Government of Moscow in 2005 on the initiative of the director and producer Edward Bojkova. The theatre's artistic director is Ivan Vyrypayev (April 2013)
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees theater is businessman – Alexander Mamut.
For 7 years successfully implemented more than 50 theatrical productions, the tour took place in many countries of the world. We familiarize the viewer with the world, showing how different can be something that happens to us here and now. Social life, politics, religion, and spirituality, the culture of interethnic relations and creative traditions of different peoples of Russia.
We want to help each other to expand their contacts with the outside world. We try to create an atmosphere of openness and comfort for all. At any time enter here students, businessmen, actors, playwrights, nearby residents, employees of nearby offices. Not only to see the play, but to watch a movie, do yoga or modern dance, just drink coffee and eat delicious food.
"Practice" is the first state theate, which staged plays the leading contemporary playwrights: Yuri Klavdiev, Victoria Nikiforova, Michael Durnenkov, Sergei Medvedev, Igor Simonov.
In the repertoire of "Practice" – plays on lyrics German Grekov, Linor Goralik, Alexander Gelman, Natalia Mochina, Pavel Pryazhko, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Sorokin, Mark Ravenhill, Anna Yablonskaya and others.
In the theatre play bright, modern actors: Pavel Artemyev, Karolina Grushka, Boris Kamorzin, Agniya Kuznetsova, Inga Oboldina, Andrey Smoyakov, Evgeniy Stychkin, Inna Suckoresckaya, Alexander Filippenko, Alice Khazanova and others.
Together with "Practice" cooperate a well-known directors: Vladimir Ageyev, Dmitry Brusnikin, Ramin Gray, Yury Kvyatkovsky, Ruslan Malikov, Joel Pomra, Viktor Ryzhakov.
An important part of the repertoire of "Practice" is poetic performances and evening. From the stage of the theatre was read poems by Eugene Bunimovich, Dmitry Bykov, Dmitry Vodennikov, Sergei Gandlevsky, Oleg Cargo, Julius Gogolev, Ilya Breadwinners, Andrei Rodionov, Lev Rubinstein and many others. In 2010 Eduard Boyakov put the trilogy "Poems about love" poems by contemporary poets: Vera Pavlova, Faith Skid and Elena Fanailova.
In the auturn of 2010 "The practice" presented a series of documentary productions of "MAN.doc" the history, dedicated to the heroes of contemporary culture, among which Bronislav Vinogradsky, Oleg Gennesaret, Oleg Kulik, Artemy Lebedev, Vladimir Martynov and others
"Practice" is not just a theate, and contemporary cultural centre, which hosts film screenings, workshops, exhibitions and performances.
Moderators cinema Club "Practices" were leading film critics and film scholars: Galina Aksenova, Roman Volobuev, Boris Nelepo, Kirill Razlogov, Michael Rathaus. The film was directed by Marlen Khutsiev, journalist and playwright Julia Idlis, actress Alisa Grebenshchikova, artist Oleg Kulik and others.
Daily "Practice" trained: modern dance, contact improvisation, yoga and other. "Practice" is not limited to the space of the basement at Patriarch's ponds. The theatre played its performances at the center of contemporary art "Winzavod", Institute of media, architecture and design "Strelka" in GMII renamed after A. S. Pushkin, on the Picnic of magazine "Afisha" , the center of contemporary culture "Garage" and other venues of Moscow.
With 2007, with the support of the Moscow Government the Practice theatre hosts the annual international festival of Theatre for children "Big Change", whose task is to acquaint children with current artists, to educate a new generation of viewers, to create a space where you can meet experts in the field of children's theatre.
In 2008, the theatre "Practice" has initiated a charity project "Art Building", which was developed and implemented a programme of aesthetic education and art therapy for children's homes. "Art Building" was spent three charity – auction, which had exhibited the works of the best contemporary artists: Hora Chahal, Pavel Pepperstein, Eugene Assa, Valery Koshlyakov, Arkady Nasonov, Dmitry Vrubel, Victoria Timofeeva, Oleg Kulik, Andrey Bartenev, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Francisco Infante, Zurab Tsereteli, AES+F, and many others. All proceeds were directed to the creation of art studios in orphanages alexina and Perm. In 2009 the exhibition of lots of "Art Building" in the gallery "Practice" included in the Third Biennale of contemporary art.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees theatre is Alexander Mamut.
In April 2013, the artistic director of the "Practice" became a director and playwright Ivan Vyrypayev.
Schedule and hours of operation theatre "Practice", specify by a phone +7 (495) 544 – 55 – 45.