Korsh Theatre
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| Address | Petrovsky Lane, 3 Moscow Russia |
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| Owner | Fyodor Korsh |
| Type | Drama theatre |
| Opened | 1882 |
| Closed | 1917 |
The Russian Drama Korsh Theatre (Russian: Русский драматический театр Корша) was a theatre which functioned in Moscow, Imperial Russia in 1882–1917. After the 1917 Revolution it carried on for several years under different guises and was finally shut down in 1933.
The theatre was co-founded by the entrepreneur Fyodor Korsh and the actors Modest Pisarev and Vasily Andreyev-Burlak on the basis of the Anna Brenko's Pushkin Theatre which had gone bankrupt in 1881. In 1883 Korsh (who had received substantial financial help from the industrialist and patron of arts Alexander Bakhrushin) became its sole owner. Its earliest productions included Revizor by Nikolai Gogol, The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky and Masquerade by Mikhail Lermontov.
The Korsh Theatre opened officially on 30 August 1885 and a year later staged its first major hit, Alexander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit. Daringly experimenting with technical stage effects, it instantly made itself a name as the most technically advanced theatre in Russia. Korsh's was the first totally electrified Moscow theatre in the days when even the Bolshoi and Maly Theatres relied mostly on gas lamps.
Initially 'cheap' comedies and vaudevilles (by Arkady Kryukovskoy, Dmitry Mansfeld and Ivan Baryshev among others) dominated the theatre's repertoire, but it was on their commercial success that the Korsh Theatre built its financial independence and started producing serious work, including plays by Henrik Ibsen, Hermann Sudermann and Edmond Rostand.
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