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       The first public Tatar theatrical performance was presented by a group of progressive Tatar youth on December 22, 1906. This date is considered Birthday of tatar theater though the first plays in Tatar were written and performed at schools and private home theaters at the end of the XIX century.

        In 1907 the first professional theatrical company “Sayar” (“Pilgim” from Tatar) headed by Gabdoullah Kariyev, who was called ‘father of Tatar theatre” during his lifetime, was formed. It was the start of rapid development and flourishing of young Tatar drama and theatre. The second troupe «Nur» («Ray») was established in 1912, in Ufa by Sahipzhamal Gizzatullina Volzhskaya, the first female actress in the Muslim and Turkic world. In 1915 the third Tatar theatrical company “Shirkat” (“Cooperation”) was formed in Orenburg. In 1922 all Tatar theatre companies joined up under the directorship of  Karim Tinchourin, a renaissance man, a person  of extreme talent and charizma – an actor, dramatist  and play director. In 1926 the theatre was among the first in the USSR to gain the status of “Academic”. In 1939 it was named after Galiasgar Kamal - a prominent dramatist, one of the founders of professional Tatar theatre. It has remained Galiasgar Kamal Tatar National Academic Theatre so far and successfully continues the mission of its predecessors.

         Since 1985 the theatre is administered by Managing Director Shamil Zakirov. Farid Bikchantayev, a Laureate of G. Toukay National Prize of Tatarstan Republic, is an Art Director of G. Kamal Theatre since 2002.