新世纪以来，伴随着经济体制的转型和中国年节文化的发展，贺岁话剧从无到兴，引起了普通观众对话剧前所未有的关注，调动了广大普通百姓的观剧热情，使之逐渐成为贺岁文化市场上的宠儿。 所谓贺岁话剧，是指在年关岁末上演，突出娱乐功能，强调喜剧风格，试图满足大众在年节期间的文化心理和欣赏需求的话剧。本文以新世纪以来的贺岁话剧作为研究对象，尝试运用实证分析和文化批评的研究方法，对贺岁话剧现象进行归纳和论述。 贺岁话剧的诞生语境，可以追溯至中国古代戏曲中上演应节戏的传统，当下社会、文化的转型也为其提供了有利的社会背景，同时，贺岁电影的繁荣也为贺岁话剧的出现起到了一定的催生作用。从贺岁话剧的主要形态来看，可以划分为生活剧、爱情剧、嬉闹剧以及都市探索剧。它的基本特征也可以归纳为娱乐化、平民化、喜剧化和商业化。其中，娱乐化是贺岁话剧最为核心的功能追求，平民化是它的关注视角，喜剧化则是其较为突出的风格诉求，而商业化更是贺岁话剧不可或缺的市场需求。正因如此，贺岁话剧不断发展成熟，为中国当代话剧的发展探索出了新的思路和发展空间，然而，也面临着艺术性与商业性的两难问题。除了满足观众和市场的需求，贺岁话剧在今后还可以鼓励民间、多元的创作，寻求雅俗共赏的理想状态，从而获得健康、长久的发展。

Since the New century, following the change of economic system and the advance in Chinese festival culture, New Year’s greeting modern drama which is from none to popularity, causes an unprecedentedly repercussions to the drama in ordinary audience. New Year’s greeting modern drama also arouses the enthusiasm of watching drama in the mass of ordinary audience, and is gradually becoming the pet in the market of celebrating the Spring Festival culture.Talk about the New Year’s greeting drama, which performances during the spring festival, highlights the entertainment function, enhances the comedy style, and tries to satisfy the people’s cultural psychology and appreciative requirement.The paper researches on New Year’s greeting modern drama since the New century, tries to use the constipatic analysis and cultural criticism of researching method to sum up and discuss the phenomenon of New Year’s greeting modern drama.Discusses the birth of circumstances about New Year’s greeting modern drama. At first, in the Chinese ancient traditional opera, the tradition of performing the drama and opera during the festival can be viewed as the origin of New Year’s greeting modern drama. Then, the change of modern social and culture provides a strong social background to the appearance of New Year’s greeting modern drama. Meanwhile, the prosperity and development of New Year’s greeting film do some urgent effects in the appearance of New Year’s greeting modern drama. Seen from the main pattern of New Year’s greeting modern drama, it can be divided into life drama, love drama, recreation drama and metropolitic exploration drama. Its basic feature can be summed up as entertainmainzation, popularization, comedization and commercization. The entertainmainzation is the core pursuit of New Year’s greeting modern drama, popularization is the viewpoint, comedization is the style pursuit, and commercization is the market requirement which cannot be lack of. So, New Year’s greeting modern drama is developing and maturing, and also provides some new trains for the development of the Chinese modern drama. However, there is dilemma between the artistry and trade of New Year’s greeting modern drama. And proposes some ponders and the countermeasure to the New Year's greeting modern drama in the next outlet. Besides the satisfaction to the mass and the need for the market, New Year’s greeting modern drama can encourage more kinds of creations from the nongovernment, and also find the ideal condition to suit both refined and popular tastes, in order to gain the development in a healthy and permanent way.