Les Kurbas Theatre

The Les Kurbas Lviv Academic Theater was founded in 1988[1] by Volodymyr Kuchynsky and a group of young actors who, like the outstanding Ukrainian director Les Kurbas and his colleagues in 1918, felt the need to create a theater.

Performances at the theater including: "Garden of Unthawed Sculptures"[2] by Lina Kostenko; "Grateful Herod" and "Narcissus" by Hryhoriy Skovoroda; "Between Two Forces" by Volodymyr Vynnychenko; "In the Field of Blood," "Johanna, Herod's Wife,"[3] and "Apocrypha" by Lesia Ukrainka; "Dreams" and "Zabavy dlya Fausta" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "Praise to Eros" and "Silenus Alcibiadis" by Plato; "Marco the Cursed or Oriental Legend" by Vasyl Stus;[4] and "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett worthily represented Ukraine and won highest honors at numerous international theater festivals.

At the level of the third floor, the façade wall is divided by semi-columns supported by consoles and crowned with Gothic turrets and sculptures of chimeras.

Ornamental paintings by Zygmunt Balk, balconies decorated with bas-reliefs by Franciszek Bernat.

[7] In 1908, the Vienna Architectural Bureau designed a three-story Art Nouveau theater building.

The facade of the house, as well as the balcony and the stage mirror in the interior, were decorated with grotesque bas-reliefs by Franciszek Bernat based on medieval and theatrical motifs.

The stand on Virmenska street (1911-1918) featured a poster for the Casino de Paris, which announced a performance of Joseph Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus.

Critics called this theater a real artistic cabaret, modeled on the best Western traditions.

On March 2, 2020, a gala evening on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the opening of the Casino de Paris Variety Theater was held with the presentation of the exhibition "Stories.