Sergey Nikolaevich - theater critic, journalist, culture manager. Over the years, he headed the magazines “Soviet Theater”, Madame Figaro and Citizen K, worked in the magazines “Ogonyok”, “Brownie”, ELLE. Now he is the editor-in-chief of the magazine “SNOB”, the host of the “Cultural Exchange” program on OTR, the author and compiler of eleven literary collections, including “All about my father” (2011), “Red Arrow” (2013), “All about my house” "(2015), "33 hotels, or Hello, beautiful life!" (2018) and others. “Theater People” are portraits of actors, vivid articles about directors, artists and performances, written over the years. This is a book about those for whom Theater is not just a profession, but a need of the soul and the main content of life. We are talking about a great passion that manifests itself in different ways and not only on the stage - it was this that determined the fate of Sergei Nikolaevich’s heroes, making someone a victim and someone a happy winner. Collected under one cover for the first time, these texts read like a theatrical novel, where one plot leads to another, and all together they create a picture of time.