The 60th Anniversary of the Theater on Terazije

Belgrade, Dec. 21 2009, (Serbia Today) - The Theater on Terazije Square in Belgrade will celebrate on December 23rd the 60th Anniversary of its existence.
The Theater on Terazije Square is today the only music hall in Serbia. Founded in 1949, it went through several conceptual and name changes. Starting as a “Theater of Humor”, it changed its name in 1954 to a “Belgrade Comedy Theater”. Few years later it merges with the Belgrade Drama Theater and works under the name Modern Theater. In 1975 it again becomes independent theater group and adopts its present name “The Theater on Terazije Square”.
In 1991 the building on Terazije Square, where Theater had its space, went through long construction renovation. The Company returned to its home in 2005
Some of the biggest names of Serbian theater worked on the scene of Theater on Terazije Square: Branka Mitić, Željka Rajner, Dragutin Dobričanin, Miodrag Petrović Čkalja, Mića Tatić, Vesna Predojević, Tanja Bošković, Dragica Maksimović, Rade Marjanović.

The first twenty years of the Theater’s existence, on the repertoires were comedies and operettas. In sixties, the first musicals were presented to the public: “The Oklahoma”(1966) , “West Side Story”(1968), Kiss me Kate”(1969) etc. Some of the hit musicals on the repertoire today are: “Chicago”, “Grease” , “Cabaret”, “Somebody likes it hot”.
The Theater is lately expending its offer by introducing “The Small Cabaret Scene – Milenko Zablacanski”, and the Ballet Theater. Through their “Open Audition Program” they give chance to young theater artists, writers, dancers and musicians to become a part of this respectable theater institution.