AttractionsUnder 1 km awayUNESCO World Heritage
Tashkent State Circus
A domed 1970s circus on Khadra square in old Tashkent, often compared to a flying saucer and one of the city's best-known modernist buildings.
Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre
One of Uzbekistan's oldest theatres, founded as a troupe in 1914, based in Tashkent since 1929 and housed in a building rebuilt in 2001.
Attractions1914 (troupe); 2001 (building)
About the place
The first professional Uzbek theatre company gave its first performances in 1913–1914, with support from the reform-minded teachers of the new-method schools. In 1929 the troupe moved from Samarkand to Tashkent, and for most of the 20th century it carried the name of the writer Hamza; it became an academic theatre in 1933.
Its repertoire has ranged from Navoi's Farhad and Shirin to Shakespeare, Gogol and Gorky. The building was reconstructed in 2001: the auditorium ceiling is a suspended dome painted with clouds in a blue sky.
Why go
- More than a century of Uzbek stage history
- Painted sky dome over the auditorium
- Evening performances in Tashkent
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