In 1920 there was a small travelling troupe under the leadership of a wonderful actor Vladimir Kumelsky. Only at the end of the decade, in 1928 the theater settled down in Mogilev and got a name - Regional Drama Theater. In 1932 the theatre received the status of the Russian Republican Drama Theater. In this period the pleiad of outstanding actors such as D. Orlov, A. Obukhovitch, V. Konopliansky, N. Ablov, A. Kistov worked there.

In Minsk the theater began working in 1947 and at this time Vera Redlikh became its art director. The real pearl of the repertoire was the performance "The King Lire", that was awarded with the price for the best acting of A.Kistov by the British Royal Academy of Drama Art.

In 1973 the theater was headed by the young talented director Boris Lutzenko. The new stagings of "The Moore Brothers" (by F. Schiller), "Three Penny Opera" (by B. Brecht) and "A Human Tragedy"(by M. Medach) at once became big events in the theater life. The modern period of the theater is characterized by the constant enrichment of the repertoire by the classical masterpieces.