The first studio students included future famed actors, such as Pyotr Glebov, Boris Levinson, Liliya Gritsenko, Yury Leonidov, and director Pavel Chomsky.

They included Yury Grebenshchikov, Yevgeny Urbansky, Olga Bgan, Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina, Leonid Satanovsky, Maya Menglet, Vladimir Anisko, Nina Veselovskaya, and Genrietta Ryzhkova.

Interspersed among plays by Soviet writers, the theatre staged many works by such foreign playwrights as Bertolt Brecht, Bernard Shaw, Pavel Kohout, and Eduardo de Filippo.

[8] Boris Lvov-Anokhin held the post of chief director from 1963 to 1969, staging the first Soviet production of French playwright Jean Anouilh's Antigone, which had gained popularity in Europe after World War II.

Lvov-Anokhin brought several important actors into the troupe, including Georgy Burkov, Albert Filozov, Rimma Bykova, and Vasily Bochkaryov.

Vasilyev's productions, The First Version of Vassa Zheleznova, after the tragedy by Maxim Gorky, and Viktor Slavkin's A Young Man's Grown-up Daughter, were deemed the beginning of a “new theatrical revolution” by critics.

[15] The theatre also staged plays by a new generation of playwrights: Threshold by Alexei Dudarevref,[16] Noah and His Sons by Yuly Kim,[17] Impromptu Fantasy by Viktoria Tokareva, A Housewarming in an Old House by Alexander Kravtsov, and Sholem Aleichem Street, No.

Chief directors at various times included Roman Kozak, Vitaly Lanskoi, Semyon Spivak, Tatyana Akhramkova, Vladimir Mirzoev, and Alexander Galibin.

Beginning in 1991 Pyotr Mamonov, the leader of the rock band Zvuki Mu, began to perform at the Stanislavsky Drama Theatre periodically.

[1] Architects from the Wowhaus bureau – Oleg Shapiro and Dmitry Likin, authors of such acclaimed Moscow projects as the Crimean Embankment, the Pioneer cinema, and temporary architecture at Gorky Park – were engaged to reconstruct the theatre's physical plant.

The architects restored a small stage, built a transformer hall, and created modern service rooms, while retaining historic elements as facades, a staircase and a balcony.

[22] The Stanislavsky Electrotheatre opened after reconstruction on January 26, 2015, with a performance of Euripides tragedy The Bacchae, staged by Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos.

[24] Currently, the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre is a modern cultural center that hosts concerts, theatre performances, film screenings, contemporary art exhibits and lectures.

Its activities are enhanced by the work of the School of Contemporary Spectators and Listeners, the Word Order bookstore, and the Theater and its Diary publishing series.