• THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA by Federico García Lorca, in a contemporary

The festival is about to finish, however, the venues and court-yard of the city theater become more and more crowded. Also some well-known faces came in sight among the public. Now read some observations of our reporter:

The 3rd day of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival The festival has reached midway point. However, the enthusiasm of the spectators has not deadened yet and it eases off the reporters’ exhaustion. The following is a brief report on the 3rd day of the festival:

he film director Steven Soderbergh — perhaps best known for the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise and “Traffic,” although his “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” will always come first for some of us — has tipped his hand a bit about his heretofore under-wraps stage project for the Sydney Theater ...

Hosting 23 stage productions and 29 performances of the other sections –includes Ta’ziye, Tea House, and Marionette - the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival passed halfway.

BEIRUT: The children at Amel Association in the suburbs of south Beirut have been awaiting our arrival all week. Some have already gathered in the center’s main room, where one boy stands inquisitively next to a poster that reads “No child labor allowed” in glaring bold font, while another ...

• Help to Poor Indian Artists There is a charity shop at the entrance hall of The House of Artists, that sells Indian masks by a troupe named “Cho Bangali” to raise money for the poor Indian artists.

The Edinburgh International Festival attracts top class performers of music, theatre, opera and dance from around the world. The festival also creates a prime time to promote the history and culture of Scotland.

3 books were published coincident with the International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival of Tehran.

IRAN THEATER – according to the Dramatic Arts Center’s public relations, at the requests of some directors to take part in the Iranian Theater Panorama section with adapted texts, the headquarters declared that besides the Iranian texts (first priority), adaptation is also acceptable.

The International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival should be a window for representing the rituals.

• 12 of London’s most exciting theatres have clubbed together to give away loads of free tickets to young people under 26, between now and March 2011.

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.