Shevchenko Drama Theatre [Kharkiv]
type: Item
label: Teatro drammatico ucraino di Kharkiv @it
label: Shevchenko Drama Theatre
description: Theatre building in Charkiv, Ukraine
description: theater in Charkov @nl
description: Edificio teatrale a Charkiv, Ucraina @it
EUTA building identifier: 3205
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Ukraine
Wikidata source: Q4496305
GPS: Point(36.2317 49.995)
opening date: 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
Web: www.theatre-shevchenko.com.ua
architect: Andrey Thon
City: Kharkiv
Source URL: 6SWqJ
Source URL: 6UEwr
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 709
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: From 1926, home to the theatre company Berezil [March] founded by Les Kurbas at Kyiv in 1922. After Kurbas's arrest by Soviet police in 1933, reformed and renamed Ukrainsky Dramatichny Teatr [Ukrainian Drama Theatre]. Later renamed in honour of the Ukrainian poet, Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861). Used for drama performances in Ukrainian.