The purpose of the article is to analyze the historical-analytical and art-scientific analysis of the contemporary directing practices formation of the Lugansk Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater on the example of creativity of one of its leading representatives, Vladimir Yurievich Moskovchenko. The methodology of the research is based on a comprehensive scientific approach and synthesis of the following methods: historical and analytical in the study of the directing art of V.Yu. Moskovchenko in the context of the theater culture in Ukraine as a whole; “Biographical” as a means of determining the stages of creative becoming of the artist; theoretical is for scientific generalization and systematization of factual material. The scient...