The artistic director of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival, Mohammad Hussein Naser Bakht, elaborated on the programs of the festival in a press conference.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce three of its 2009-2010 season productions. The main stage season at the Linda Gross Theater will mark premieres from Atlantic co-founder David Mamet and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright ...

by Ken Ludwig Bay Area Premiere August 14 – 30 Ives Park, 7400 Willow St., Sebastopol Based on the timeless swashbuckling adventure by Alexandre Dumas, bring your whole family outdoors for the second production of the 2009 Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival and experience heroism, treachery, ...

Today the major problem of the ritual-traditional theater is their script, and if the problem is not resolved, it will irreparably mar this genre of the performing art.

The City of Tehran is connected to all of the associations and institutions through its Artistic & Cultural Organization and we ask them to increase their cooperation with the artistic and cultural activities.

“In the case of receiving any requisitions, we will send our inspectors to resolve the problem.” Mohsen Hashemi said about not finishing the project of the city theater’s subway station.

By Edward Bond A room in a high rise flat. The window overlooks the city street. A woman reads a story in a newspaper. It shatters her world. Her hopes for herself and the child she is carrying turn to fear. She tries to explain to her partner. He will not listen: “That kid’s a curse on me. ...

IRAN THEATER – “the usual dramatic forms we have in Iran are widely under the influence of western theater.” Member of the Islamic Congress, Javad Ariyan Manesh, said in a talk with the headquarters of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival.

Built in 1927, then the Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center is Pittsburgh’s premier stage for live theater. Holding 2,885 people the Benedum is also Pittsburgh’s largest theater, beating out Heinz Hall by about two hundred seats.

"One of the most efficient ways to challenge the effects of the foreign cultures is to develop the native rituals of a nation and fortunately the sublime Iranian culture possesses a great wealth of rituals, which should be studied throughout."

Of all of Shakespeare's comedies, "As You Like It" might just be the most difficult to follow. The comedy of romance and mistaken identity contains cross-dressing, character doubling and a fly-by gallery of supporting clowns whose paths intersect with a velocity that can make your ...

Today the more we proceed, the more we go far from our national theater, which in no wise deserves it.