Current Company
As of 2009, Maly employs over a hundred professional stage actors. The cast includes three People's Artists of the USSR - Yury Solomin, Victor Korshunov, Elina Bystritskaya, and 33 People's Artists of Russia.
The current (2009–2010 season) program of Maly includes plays almost exclusively by Russian authors (Mikhail Bulgakov, Anton Chekhov, Denis Fonvizin, Nikolay Gogol, Alexander Griboyedov, Pyotr Karatygin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Alexander Pushkin, A. K. Tolstoy) and a single play by Molière. The theatre announced, as of August 2009, upcoming premieres of Cabal of Hypocrites by Bulgakov and Smart Things by Samuil Marshak.
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