Parisa Moqatadi appointed as the new chief of “City Theater” by the order of Hussein Tāheri - General Director of dramatic arts centre

By Farideh Shirejhian “Ma’reke” is a forgotten Iranian traditional performing art type and there are so few resources (written, visual or audio) available for us. Today, finding a sample of this performing type is impossible. To gain a true knowledge about this performing ...

WASHINGTON — The dire turn in Russian-American relations has forced Washington’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre to cancel a major festival of contemporary Russian theater that would have brought four plays and as many as 90 Russian actors, directors and designers to the capital this fall.

The 2014 Tony Award for outstanding regional theater will be presented to off-Broadway’s game-changing Signature Theatre Company, which recently moved into a new three-stage complex on West 42nd Street. The group is best known for presenting full seasons of work by selected ...

some problems and issues of university theatre were discussed in a meeting between Hussein Taheri, General Director of Iran’s dramatic arts and Nasser Babashahi, chief of Universities’ Theatre Institute and a number of universities’ drama groups’ managers.

The world premiere of Between Us, a new play by Sarah Daniels, at the Arcola Studio 2, a fringe venue in east London, from 28 May to 21 June 2014.

“1+1”, an Iranian-Italian joint art work, directed by Omid Niaz and Guglielmo Papa, after performance in Venice, left the city for Germany’s Freiburg.

The Spring Festival, set to run between 24 and 26 May in Cairo and Beirut, is an interdisciplinary feast. This year the event in Cairo also hosts the Red Zone festival Ahram Online, Friday 25 Apr 2014

Ahmad-Reza Hadjarzade “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Becket, directed by Homayoun Ghanizade and starring of Peyman Mo’adi as Vladimir, has surprised many theatre fans. Interestingly, many theatre audiences, which every night go to Theatre Shahr, the venue which the play is ...

General Director of Iran’s Dramatic Arts, appointed “Payam Dehkordi” as secretary 0f 21th Hamadan International Children Theatre Festival.

Amy Rosenthal's 1999 Sunday Times Drama Award winning play Henna Nightwill be revived at the New Diorama Theatre in central London, running from Tue 10 to Sat 28 June 2014. 

"Birds to be killed this way" by Hamed Darab, translated by Mina Ilchian, directed by prominent polish director, Emilia Betlegemska and performed by Warsaw National Theatre performers, will be on stage till May 22, 2014, in Poland.

Hussein Taheri, General Director of Dramatic Arts, delivered a message to the 6th 'Iran's Ordibehesht Theatre' celebration.

The world premiere of Wonderland, a new play by Beth Steel, at the Hampstead Theatre, a 325-seat Off West End venue, in north London, from 20 June to 26 July 2014. 

In a meeting between Hossein Taheri, general director of Iran's Dramatic Arts Center, and Iranian artists who are to be dispatched to other provinces to attend the "Ordibehesht Theatre" celebration, the poster of the cultural event unveiled.

"Khourtab", an Iranian traditional puppetry, from the northern city of Lahidjan would participate in 'Chador-e Khiyal Festival', in Tajikistan.

Cape Town is to host to a new performing arts festival that will be modelled on some of the world's most popular fringe festivals, Tony Lankester, the chief executive of the National Arts Festival, announced on Tuesday.

Blackshaw Theatre present two new plays as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival and Fringe at The Selkirk Pub, in Tooting Broadway, south London from 1 May - 18 May 2014. 

Tehran’s 15th international puppetry festival’s new email address has been announced. 

A musical based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animations feature film Shrek will be staged at Theatre Cambrian next month. Tickets are now on sale. Supplied photo.

The first acts for the 2014 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's have been announced and include a number of top international acts that will perform for the first time in Northern Ireland.

The winners of the 38th Olivier Awards have been announced at a ceremony held at the Royal Opera House, hosted by Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan on Sunday 13 April 2014. 

David Suchet will star as Lady Bracknell in a new West End production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 2015.

The Chickenshed Theatre in Southgate, north London presents Paula's Story , from 30 Apr to 17 May 2014.