“Once” leads the pack at this year’s Tony Awards, with 11 nominations, including Best Musical and honors for leading actor, leading actress, direction and book. Other top shows, with eight of more, were “Follies,” “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” ...

The Tony nominees for the 2011-2012 Broadway theater season will be announced Tuesday morning, and making predictions is a bit tougher than in recent years.

Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker have a volatile date with destiny in the multi-ethnic Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which officially opened April 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre.

One of the most anticipated theater festivals, the Globe to Globe Festival, was inaugurated in London on the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games. The Greek National Theater presents a performance of “Pericles,” directed by Giannis Houvardas in translation by Dionysis Kapsalis in the ...

French theater director Emmanuel Daumas will be in Istanbul to direct a play at Kadir Has University April 28 and 29. Daumas will stage three short plays for the launch of Istanbul’s first annual New Theater Festival, with the support of the French Cultural Institute.

6 Characters in Search of a Director, a new play from writer/director Steven Berkoff will play the West End's Charing Cross Theatre. Performances begin May 16, with opening night set for May 23.

The Commonweal Theatre Company in Lanesboro, Minn., kicked off its 15th annual Henrik Ibsen Festival last weekend with "Pillars of Society," featuring a world premiere new adaptation by Minnesota playwright Jeffrey Hatcher.

Bogota International Theater Festivalwas an initiative of Fanny Mikey and Ramiro Osorio in the year 1988.

Simon Russell Beale plays Timon, directed by Nicholas Hytner in the Olivier Theatre.

Hamed Nasrabadian is set to teach mime in an educational workshop in Vancouver, Canada.

Main Street Theater collaborates with international partner Prague Shakespeare Festival to present Shakespeare’s Richard III. The production will run in Houston in April and May and in Prague in June.

After more than a 20 year absence, the musical is back with a bang at the Abbey Theatre.

For actors in “The Servant of Two Masters,” a computer screen and an ocean separated them from their director.

The festival will present two works, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "The Merchant of Venice," for its 34th season on The College of William and Mary campus. Dates for this year are June 13-July 29, and both productions will be presented in the intimate Studio Theatre ...

Two recently produced Tagore plays -- “Kaler Jatra” and “Shesher Kobita” -- were staged on the opening day of the six-day theatre festival arranged by Padatik Natya Sangsad (TSC). The festival began at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, on April 4.

The festival, held once every two years, will mark its 18th edition from May 10-June 5 in 22 venues around İstanbul, featuring around 100 performances by 45 theater and dance companies from six countries. Turkish theater companies will be joined by visiting troupes from Germany, France, the ...

"As good luck would have it," an unlikely troupe of Iraqi actors has realized its dream of raising $30,000 to fly to the U.S. this summer to perform at the famed Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

“Girls from the Gardens of Carpet”, which is directed by Afsaneh Zamani, will be performed in the first puppet show festival in China on May 28 to June 4.

The UNESCO Chair of the International Theatre Institute and the Global Alliance of Theatre Schools (GATS) officially invited theater schools in the network of the UNESCO-ITI Chair & GATS to attend seven international theatre events in Romania.

Fourteen exciting original productions will make their mainstream debut at the Baxter Theatre Centre’s second Zabalaza Theatre Festival, with eight more on at the newly introduced Fringe Programme, and the team spearheading one of South Africa’s leading development theatre festivals ...

With thoughts of St. Patrick's Day in the early Spring air, we note the following treat from across the Hudson River in little ol' Manhattan;

India Theatre Olympiad: International Theatre Festival will be held from 12th to 16th October, 2012 in Indian city of Cuttack.

A performance of The Brothers Karamazov by Derashinera Company is on stage at the New National Theatre of Tokyo (NNTT).

A three-day theatre festival in connection with International Women’s Day celebrations kicked off at Alhamra, The Mall, on Friday.