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.

China Heaven Creation International Performing Arts Co. Ltd (CHC) Monday formally took over the ownership of the White House Theatre in Branson, Missouri, making the first ever successful purchase of an American theatre by a Chinese company.

The director of the Dramatic Arts Center announced the organization of the religious festivals.

Composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Fosse, Godspell, Pippin) will be honored with the inaugural Junior Theater Festival Award for his contributions to the Advancement of Musical Theater for Young People.

The revision step of the Islamic Revolution Section of Fadjr's Street Theater segment has begun.

The accepted works of the Panorama of Iran's Theater section of the Fadjr International Theater Festival were announced by the Major Selection Council which includes 14 decisively approved works and 3 conditionally approved plays.

The Delhi based Drama and Design Academy (DADA) in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy is poised for the second edition of its Ibsen festival, which commemorates the great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, whose plays continue to be performed across the world.

The second press conference of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival was held on Dec 15 at the conference hall of the city theater.

"The King & His Stupid Assistant" is a stage coproduction of Germany and Iran for children.

Children have cultural rights. They need the space to express them. This recognition was the most significant outcome of the three-year Tieng noi tre tho (Children’s Voice) project that has just ended, marking the beginning of a determined effort to establish a stage for children’s theater in ...

“I have always felt that theater should be available for everybody, not limited to a certain group,’’ says Drew Murphy, president of Broadway Across America-Boston, which is ramping up services designed to make theater more accessible for the blind and deaf communities.

Written by Jemez R. Brandon "Theater of Asia" has been recently released with a Persian translation by Majid Sar Sangi.

Full casting has been announced for Iain Glen's new production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, translated by Frank McGuiness, to run February 8-May 23 at London's Duchess Theatre.