In “The Phantom of the Theater,” the famous writer Andrei Dmitriev talks about sixty hours that shocked the whole world and, above all, us, citizens of Russia. During these sixty hours, we were all in anxious anticipation of how the fate of hundreds of people captured by terrorists in the theater center on Dubrovka would be resolved. The reader will learn from this book how the actors of a small theater near Moscow lived and survived these sixty hours, concerned about the fate of a person close to them, who, according to their information, became one of the Nord-Ost hostages.