Pantomime traditions, especially "Peter Pan", are performed quite often, and a few American theatre companies produce traditional British-style pantomime as well as American adaptations of the form. According to Professor Russell A. Peck of the University of Rochester, the earliest pantomime productions in the US were "Cinderella" pantomime productions in New York in March 1808, New York again in August 1808, Philadelphia in 1824, and Baltimore in 1839. A production at Olympic Theatre in New York of "Humpty Dumpty" ran for at least 943 performances between 1868 and 1873, (one source says 1,200 performances), becoming the longest-running pantomime in history. In
Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre Yerevan State Pantomime theatre was founded in 1974. The status of the State Theatre received in 1983. Not having own building, theater performances are presented in Yerevan State Youth Theatre, the lease basis. In the summer of 2012, the Municipality of Yerevan, made decision to provide space in North Avenue for the construction of the building for the theatre. A student of Moscow State Institute of Theatre Arts Henrik Poghosyan, being attracted by the genre of pantomime, established “Tushpa” theatrical group and by his program of etudes became a laureate of Republic Student Spring Festival of