International theatre festival themed "Theatre-Children-Future" will run from June 28 through July 4 in Ulan Bator.

MORE than 32 Bahraini artists, writers and thespians have been honoured as part of the sixth annual Awal Theatre Festival.

Director-producer Harold Prince will receive this year's annual Monte Cristo Award from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center of Waterford, Conn. for his lifelong contributions to the American and international theater.

The Tokyo International Players, an English-language theater group founded 113 years ago, will perform "Of Mice and Men" this month.

FROM fireworks to film and the "most amazing parade in the world", there's something for everyone this St Patrick's Day.

The 36th Karbi Youth Festival got under way at Taralangso, Diphu with a five-day programme today. Additional Chief Secretary of West Bengal Pawan Singh Engti inaugurated the festival at a function this evening in the presence of thousands of people.

This year, Asia's performing arts festival calendar kicks off in Taipei with the Taiwan International Festival.

World Theatre Day is an opportunity to celebrate Theatre in all its myriad forms. Theatre is a source of entertainment and inspiration and has the ability to unify the many diverse cultures and peoples that exist throughout the world.

CHICAGO—Bertolt Brecht, who wrote such famous works as Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan, and perhaps the most well known, The Threepenny Opera, also wrote a marvelous Bavarian folk comedy (with music) entitled A Respectable Wedding.

As part of the 13th International Istanbul Puppet Festival, World Puppet Day will be celebrated March 21 and the World Puppet Exhibition will open simultaneously.

The Dramatic Arts Center's director, Hussein Parsai, has sent a massage to the 1st Pantomime Festival.

The National Theater of Korea marks its 60th birthday this year after decades of preserving and staging traditional Korean performing arts.

Azade Ansari is going to stage "Macando" at the Finland Puppet Festival. IRAN THEATER – directed by Azade Ansari, Macando will be stage in the Finland Puppet Festival which will take place from May 25 to 29.

Neil Pepe will direct a revival of David Mamet's A Life in the Theater on Broadway this fall. Casting for the production, which will be the play's Broadway premiere, will be announced at a later date.

According to a command by Hussein Parsai, Mohammad Heydari was appointed as director of the 29th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

Russia celebrated the 150th birthday of renowned 19th-century Russian novelist and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov on Friday with a series of cultural events held across the country.