The emphasis was placed on both classical works of world drama - "The White Guard", "Hamlet", "The Cherry Orchard", "The Golovlyov Family", "King Lear", "Tartuffe", "Ivanov", "Vassa Zheleznova", "The Marriage", "Zoyka's Apartment",[10][11] and on contemporary Russian and foreign drama - plays by Olga Mukhina, the Presnyakov brothers, Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov, Vasily Sigarev and other authors were performed on the theatre stage.

At Tabakov's invitation, the troupe included Olga Yakovleva, Avangard Leontiev, Alla Pokrovskaya, Valery Khlevinsky, Vladimir Krasnov, Marina Golub, Sergey Sosnovsky, Boris Plotnikov, Dmitry Nazarov, Konstantin Khabensky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Anatoly Bely, Mikhail Trukhin, Alexey Kravchenko, Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka, Yury Chursin, Irina Pegova, Fyodor Lavrov, Maxim Matveyev, Alexey Devotchenko and others.

Leading directors began to be involved in the creation of performances: Mindaugas Karbauskis, Sergey Zhenovach, Viktor Ryzhakov, Yury Butusov, Evgeny Pisarev, Adolf Shapiro, Vladimir Mashkov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Konstantin Bogomolov, Marina Brusnikina, Vladimir Petrov, Temur Chkheidze, Tadashi Suzuki, Dmitry Brusnikin, Lev Ehrenburg, Anton Yakovlev, Marat Gatsalov, Vasily Barkhatov, Sergey Puskepalis, Alla Sigalova, Dmitry Krymov and others.

[8][17] In 2006-2007, on the initiative of Oleg Tabakov, a large-scale reconstruction of the Main Stage and the auditorium was carried out, thanks to which the Moscow Art Theatre became one of the most technically equipped theatres in the world: during the work, the upper and lower mechanisms of the stage, sound and lighting equipment were updated.

The award was presented to outstanding cultural figures from Russia and foreign countries for their personal contribution to the development of art, preserving the memory of Chekhov's work.

For the anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavsky in 2012, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Internet project "Heritage of the Art Theatre.