The country of the serious

In 1998, Vitaly Kino (a graduate of Eduard Mytnytskyi's "director's school") and a team of like-minded people founded the "New Ukrainian Theater" Arts Center, which currently operates two theaters: "Theatre on Mykhailivska" and "Sonechko" children's theater.

One of the first independent (non-state) theaters of Ukraine.

For many years, the theater did not have its own stage and worked on different stages. In 2009, the Arts Center finally opened its own stage in Kyiv, in a cozy 19th-century house, on Mykhailivska Street, 24. in Kyiv.

The theater hall has 40 seats (the administrator seats the audience). The theater has an almost homely family atmosphere.

The first premiere on its own stage - the performance "Talentless" by I. K. Karpenko-Karim, became a truly "programmatic" performance of the theater, it confidently formulated the aesthetic and philosophical views of the creative team, its artistic direction, vision of modern Ukrainian theater. It was a sincere, new, "live" reading of a well-known classic. Later, premieres of works by Chekhov, Shakespeare, Mirny, Zweig, Kropyvnytskyi, Williams, Cocteau were successfully held. However, the theater did not stop at "reviving" the classics. There are many new names in the repertoire of the theater on Mykhailivska. Plays by modern playwrights N. Uvarov, R. Horbik, N. Khalezin, V. Rybachuk, O. Zverlinoi, B. Srblyanovich, M. Smilianets, Yu. Vasyuk, staged works by T. Malyarchuk, were staged for the first time in Ukraine stage of the Theater on Mykhailivska Street.

From the first days of its existence, the theater has positioned itself as a theater for the whole family, and continues to confidently occupy the theatrical niche of "family" recreation.