The theater was founded in 1971 by A.M. Borshchevsky, associate professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Polytechnic Institute, as the Theater of the Metallurgical Faculty (TMF).
For forty-five years, Alexander Maksimovich has been the permanent director of the theater. From 1981 to 1989, the theater also acted as a propaganda team for the institute called "Polytechnic".
In 1983, TMF from the faculty theater became the theater of the Polytechnic Institute. And in 1985, under the name “Verb”, it received the honorary title “People's Theater”. Since 1991, “Glagol” has been located at the address: St. Petersburg, Lesnoy pr., 65/8 (Captain Voronin St., 13) on the 4th floor.
Theater hall for 80 people. Today, “Glagol” is one of the few permanent repertory university theaters in Russia that performs its performances for FREE.
The Glagol Theater is the only amateur theater group in the Russian Federation, which is included in the encyclopedic collection “Theatres of Russia”.
The theater was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. There are 76 people in the Glagol troupe.
Most of them are students, postgraduate students and graduates of the Polytechnic University. Over 45 years, the Glagol Theater has held over 1,500 performances, both within the walls of its university and in Moscow, as well as the Leningrad, Arkhangelsk and Pskov regions, Khakassia, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tatarstan, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan . The Glagol Theater is a laureate of many Russian and international festivals held in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Belgium, and France. The leaders of the theater - director A.M. Borshchevsky and artistic director K.V. Gershov are Honored Cultural Workers of the Russian Federation and have been awarded state awards.
Performances are performed FREE (from mid-September to mid-June) every Saturday. Starts at 18.00 or 19.00. You can order tickets 2 weeks in advance in the theater group "People's Theater "Glagol"" on VKontakte -
https://vk.com/glagol_theatre.
Phone number for inquiries: 596-38-72.