Studio Six Theater Company is hosting internationally renowned director, Alexandre Marine to direct an original adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “The Possessed”, titled, …the Itsy Bitsy Spider… for a limited preview at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Directed by Manije Mohamedi, Twelve will be staged in the Guest section of the Fadjr International Theater Festival.

Celebrating childhood and showcasing talent of kids from across the country, the National School of Drama (NSD) will host a two-week children’s theatre festival starting from Nov 1.

Nikoo Mahdiye The director of the Four Seasons Project, Job Aqakhani announced that the Call for Entry of the project's new season based on indoor theater has been released.

Behzad Farahani will stage Firooze at the city theater, on Nov 22.

A series of events called "Remembering Rendra", featuring poetry readings, plays and discussions, were held in remembrance of the late leading Indonesian poet and playwright W.S. Rendra, whose birthday fell on Nov. 7.

"Enron," a play about the collapsed U.S. energy trading company, and "Jerusalem," a portrayal of less-than-idyllic life in rural England, were among the top nominations on Monday for the London Evening Standard Theater Awards.

Hussein Parsai appointed Fariba Reisi via an official notice as the new curator of the Puppetry Productions' office.

The Cuban National Council on Performing Arts (CNAE) has invited artists from around the world to take part in the 13th International Theater Festival, dedicated to the 50 years of Cuban Theater under the Revolution, set for October 30 to November 8, 2009, in Havana, Cuba. Venues include Havana ...

Mehrdad Kourosh Nia is preparing a play called "Last Letter" for revision step of Fadjr Festival.

Going through rehearsal processes, Antigone of Sophocles directed by Hassan Fathi is on the way to participate in the Fadjr festival.

CHANDIGARH: The much-awaited SAARC Folklore Festival commenced on Friday with an academic seminar and folk performances at different colleges.

In order to support and introduce the outstanding dramatic works, they had been suggested to be recited.

By Federico García Lorca In a new version by Rona Munro Directed by John Tiffany

The madness of the French Revolution and the madness of the everyday overlap and intertwine in “Marat/Sade,” the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Peter Weiss’ 1963 play, “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of ...

Those interested in the Photo & Poster section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival should send their works by Dec 6.

IRAN THEATER – "199 works from 37 countries were submitted to the International section of the festival by Nov 1 which will certainly increase." Curator of the festival's International section, Mohammad Atebai, said.

Theatrefront director helms ambitious four-play project that spans 300 years Canadian playwrights have long been tempted to dip their pens in the inkwells of domestic history – from John Coulter's Riel to Rick Salutin's 1837 to Michael Hollingsworth's on-going VideoCabaret series.

IRAN THEATER – the news headquarters of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival announced the list of accepted texts of the Play Reciting Section:

Yaser Khaseb intends to experience a new form of mime composed with music and action.

John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.

Caligula By Homayoon Qani Zade in Fadjr Festival Homayoon Qani Zade is going to take part in the New Experiences section with Caligula.

Below is a brief talk which he has made with IRAN THEATER: Are your works all solely based on antic Iranian-Tajik literature? No, during 20 years of my profession I have also staged many classics such as Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekov, and Gogol. This production seems to be your first experience ...

A palimpsest Heiner Müller’s Philoctetes is not an adaptation of the Greek play but a palimpsest which erases and covers the original work, and lets it seep through like in an x-ray picture. Francis Bacon and Picasso used the same process with paintings by Velasquez.