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.

Introducing the winners of the Audience Award, International Critics' Society's Award, International Competition and local winners, the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival came to its end yesterday at the Vahdat Hall.

Now let’s see. How many versions of “Frankenstein” will this make? Danny Boyle, the director of the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” is to direct a stage adaptation of “Frankenstein,” based on the novel by Mary Shelley, The Guardian reported.

IRAN THEATER – Yesterday the 9th night of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival passed. Bellow is some news of the final night of the festival;

He is remembered as the driving force that made the Hult Center a reality

To welcome the Lunar New Year festival (Tet), the Vietnamese Student Association in France will hold a number of cultural events, including a special program themed “Hello Spring 2010-Young Talent” to be held at the Gymnase Marie Bell Theatre in Paris on February 21.

With the launch this year of the new Audience Award, theatrelovers have an exciting opportunity to be part of the Laurence Olivier Awards.

Mumbai: Since Keli, the cultural organization that supports dying performance arts in the country started back in 1992, its festival director K Ramachandran had big hopes for it.

Rave reviews have been rolling in for the cast of "A View from the Bridge," which opened January 24 at Cort Theater on Broadway.

Rahim Abdolrahim Zade and Nikoo Mahdie- IRAN THEATER – The 1st day of the Fadjr Festival witnessed so many events which are briefly reported.

The world premiere of Prokofiev’s original and uncensored version of his epic opera “War and Peace” will be finally unveiled on January 22 in Glasgow.

The 1st Iranian Theater Marketing was inaugurated in the presence of the Dramatic Arts Center’s director, Hussein Parsai.

There was great excitement in the theatre world last Saturday when the nominations for the 2010 Irish Times Theatre Awards were announced.