Sadovskyi acted 7 years for different companies including those of Ashkarenko, Kropyvnytskyi and Starytskyi. In 1888, he would go on to make his own acting company. A year later, his troupe joined his brother Saksahansky's Troupe.
He worked as the artistic director of the Ukrainska Besida Theatre and then organized the first permanent Ukrainian theatre in Kyiv, which reamined active until 1919.[4]
Some of his roles include Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (in M. Starytskyi’s play of the same name), Sava Chalyi (I. Karpenko-Karyi), Hetman Doroshenko (L. Starytska-Cherniakhivska), Dmytro (It Was Not Destined by M. Starytskyi), Opanas (The Vagabond by I. Karpenko-Karyi).[5]
