The 19th edition of the National Theater Festival bears the mark of its selector, the theater critic Cristina Modreanu, and – like every year – it includes a selection of the best shows from Romania and a short list of debutants, artists who will build the future of Romanian theater.

Director Peter Sellars sets his modern take on the Shakespeare classic in D.C., and says he found inspiration in recent history: Obama's election and inauguration, and the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "In the age of Obama," Sellars says, ...

Results of evaluating the theatrical sketches of the Fadjr Festival's street theater section were announced.

The foreign participants of the 16th International Children & Juvenile Theater Festival were introduced.

Famous Broadway musical 'Cats' will come to Colombia in November. It will premier in Bogota and then move to Medellin and Cali.

The main theatre festival of countries of former USSR (except of Moscow) High Fest: Sponsored by Armenia’s State Institute of Theatre and Cinema, the seventh edition of this festival repeats its three-tiered program of main stage, fringe and youth performances.

Behzad Farahani, Farhad Aish and Hussein Atefi were introduced as jurors of the 4th Marivan Street Theater Festival.

A new theater performance exploring the famous Ottoman court romance between Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan, featuring the music of prominent symphonic new age musician Can Attila, will debut at the Second City International Theater Festival in the Polish city of Legnica on Tuesday.

New artistic director Brett Sheehy has brought interdisciplinary ambition to this 26-country arts confab, which draws participants from as far as Brazil, China, Iceland, Liberia, Russia, Sudan and the U.S. “In 2009 we embark on a new vision

List of the accepted texts of the New Experiences section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival was announced. IRAN THEATER – public relations of the festival announced the list of accepted texts selected by the Major Selection Committee.

Directed by Guy Stroman September 15-27 Where: Mountain Playhouse, Jennerstown.

The secretariat of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival has declared that after deadline of sending text to the Theater Panorama of Iran, 243 texts have been received from Iranian theater artists.

A British theater company plans to rebuild an Elizabethan playhouse using the set from the hit film "Shakespeare in Love."

On 9 January 2009, Brian Friel, one of Ireland's greatest living playwrights, celebrated his 80th birthday

Behrouz Gharib Pour has received Golden Herring Award from Ariono Del Mare Festival. IRAN THEATER – Initiated in 1975, the festival has been giving Golden Herring Award to who helps puppetry grow and develop in the national and international arena. This year the festival awarded the Iranian ...

The list of the accepted works of the 4th Marivan Street Theater Festival was announced. IRAN THEATER – Shahram Karami, Kourosh Ahmadi, and Afshin Khorshid Bakhtari, jurors of the selection committee of the Marivan Street Theater Festival, selected 30 works to take part in the festival. The list ...

Casting has been announced for Stephen Daldry's production of J.B. Priestley 's An Inspector Calls, which will begin performances at the Novello Theatre on September 22 and run until November 14. The production is designed by Ian MacNeil, with lighting by Rick Fisher and music by Stephen ...

Having been far from theater for three years, Hussein Pakdel brings to stage "Dance of Earth" with a well-known cast.

IRAN THEATER -- Got fame with "Dance on the Glasses", Amir Reza Kouhestani who has recently returned to Iran, is going to stage his new production which is scheduled to hit the Iranshahr stage mid December.

Outdoor theater will make a comeback in the city starting this weekend when Little Theater director Joesph Wallace stages “Alice in Wonderland” at Kennedy Park. The free production will be held at noon and 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and again on Sept. 5 and 6.

Homayoon Qani Zade makes his Iranshahr debut with the premiere of Caligula by Albert Camus.

The third meeting of the Razavi International Theater Festival took place in the presence of the theater experts, Shahram Karami and Rahmat Amini, in order to analyze capacities, necessities and needs of the festival.

Dear artists, directors, producers! L1 Independent Dancers' Partnership is glad to inform you about two residencies, which are part of the DNA project initiated by the following culture organizations: New Web (Czech Republic), Katedra Kultury (Poland), Entré Scénen (Denmark), A4 (Slovakia), ...

The jurors of the Play Production and Playwriting section of the 7th Razavi International Theater Festival were introduced.