On 20 March 1888 the premiere of the very first Romani language operetta Children of the Forests was staged in the Maly Theatre.
The first director and the first music composer of "Indo-Romen" were Jewish activists, Moishe Goldblat and Semen Bugachevsky.
[1] On 16 December 1931 the studio showed its first full musical-dramathic performance Life on Wheels (Russian: Жизнь на колёсах).
It consisted of three acts and was based on a play by Romani author Alexandr Germano.
The current theatre director (2008) is Nikolai Slichenko, a Romani actor famous in Russia.