The legacy of music in Indian theatre, experimental plays, creative forms of expressions and new wave theatre with an ethnic flavour from small towns will be the highlights of the annual theatre festival of the National School of Drama (NSD) Jan 6-22.

The 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival hosts well-known theater directors and actors.IRAN THEATER – The news center of the Fadjr festival issued the final list of the theatrical faces, who will take part in the festival.

The National Theatre of Greece is based in Athens, Greece. The theatre was originally founded in 1880 with a grant from George I and Efstratios Rallis to give theatre a permanent home in Athens.

The outdoor space of the City Theater and the Vahdat Hall’s parking lot will host the Fadjr Festival besides the 19 venues.

Al Pacino will bring Shylock to New York audiences next summer in Central Park. Pacino will take part in Public Theater's popular Shakespeare in the Park offering of the classic Merchant of Venice, which he played on screen in 2004.

Cüneyt Gökçer, one of Turkey’s most distinguished and prolific stage actors, revered for his performances of Shakespearean characters, died on Wednesday in Ankara. He was 89.

Three members of the International Theater Critics Society and two members of the National Theater Critics Association of Iran will evaluate the works of the Fadjr International Theater Festival.

The list of accepted works of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival’s Guest section was announced.

Down a grim alley in Wapping, past elevated train tracks and housing projects, sits the world’s oldest music hall, Wilton’s (Graces Alley, E1 8JB; 44-20-7702-2789; www.wiltons.org.uk; Tube: Tower Hill/Aldgate East), where a return engagement celebrates its 150th anniversary.

Simin Amirian is going to stage "The Amber" in the Panorama section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

The second International Afro-Asian Theatre Festival would be held at Thrissur from December 20 to 29.

We may think of alphabet books as being for preschoolers and first-graders.

Text by Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve, directed by Michel Fau, with Louis Arena, Joris Avodo, Julian Barret, Astrid Bayiha, Barbara Bolotner, Hadrien Bouvier, Valentin Carbonnières, Ludmilla Dabo, India Hair, Matila Malliarakis Marie Marquis Jean-René Oudot, Fannie Outeiro, Melody Richard and ...

IRAN THEATER – The selection committee of the street section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival includes Behzad Sediqi, Payam Azizi and Shahram Karami, has approved 7 works. Also 5 works have been selected conditionally and 2 works have been selected for the non-competitive section.

The Deutsche Theater in Berlin last week gave its own "Yes" answer by staging a theatrical version of "To Be or Not To Be," Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 cult movie that satirizes Germany's takeover of Poland.

According to the Publication & Research Office of the festival, 6 researches, 3 drama collections and 2 plays will be published during this round of the festival.