Dramaten, formally the Royal Dramatic Theatre, is Sweden's national stage for spoken drama. In 1788 King Gustav III granted the actors' company the right to use this name; it first performed at Bollhuset. Since 1908 the theatre has occupied Fredrik Lilljekvist's marble-white Art Nouveau building on Nybroplan, decorated by artists including Carl Milles and Carl Larsson, who painted the ceiling of the marble foyer. The Main Stage seats 770, and the Small Stage, opened in 1945, around 340. Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night had its world premiere here in 1956. Ingmar Bergman ran the theatre from 1963 to 1966 and directed here over several decades. Its former acting school trained Greta Garbo and Max von Sydow, among many others.
The Dramaten in Stockholm, opened in 1908, is Sweden's royal drama theatre — Greta Garbo attended her acting school here, and Ingmar Bergman was for decades one of the most formative directors of the house.
At a glance
- Type
- Theatre
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
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