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.

The 11th edition of the International Theatre Festival SLAVIJA 2012 will be held at the Slavija Theatre in Belgrade on March 9-17.

With its free shows in Forest Park, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis has always had a flair for presenting art in a relaxed, outdoor atmosphere. This April it goes further still, introducing the biggest programming expansion in its 11 years: Shakespeare in the Streets.

Organised by Bangladesh Patho Natok Parishad, a weeklong street theatre festival has begun on March 1. The festival was inaugurated at the Central Shaheed Minar premises in Dhaka. Plays are being staged at the amphitheatre inside Suhrawardi Udyan since yesterday.

Venerdì 2 marzo alle 21 spettacolo teatrale di beneficenza della Compagnia "La Corte dei Folli" di Fossano.

Otello e Iago come uomini in balia delle onde. È per questo che una barca a vela diventa il luogo-simbolo della loro tragedia e luogo-realtà per lo spettacolo.

Hedda Gabler will be directed by Eric Zivot, with Melanie Whipple playing Hedda Gabler.

We are pleased to inform you that the Dramatic Arts Center of Iran will hold the  7th  International Street Theater Festival from 25th to 29th of September 2012  in Marivan .

The 'Theatre forever, everywhere' rally on Friday morning felt like Greek theatre, opined head of drama department, Gujarat College, Janak Dave.

The Northern Irish premiere of Uncle Vanya, arguably one of the greatest plays ever written, in this version by Ireland's greatest playwright, Brian Friel.

A New York theater troupe's upcoming three-city Mississippi tour brings the work of acclaimed native playwright Tennessee Williams to atmospheric settings on home turf.

Based on a selection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and adapted by Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith with the company, this first installment of the Chekhov Cycle has toured successfully to Vancouver, Edmonton, Hong Kong, Dartmouth and Montreal. Chekhov's Shorts played to sold-out audiences ...

It will showcase what’s on stage in Punjab and how directors here are experimenting with a variety of themes and new idioms in their plays. The Punjabi Heritage Theatre Festival, slated from February 20 to 24, at Delhi’s Shri Ram Centre, will see productions by eminent directors from ...

Iran and Iraq are going to convene a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on theater cooperation, Iran Theater website quoted Mohammad Dashtgoli, acting head of the Dramatic Art Center (DAC) as saying.

Leading international theater groups will come to Tehran in the Iranian month of Shahrivar (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) to participate in a festival, acting head of the Dramatic Art Center said.

MiraCosta College theatre student and standout actor Sassan Saffari has been awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival’s (KC/ACTF) Award and scholarship for a play he authored entitled “Beacons of Hope.

directed by Michael Kahn Mar 27 2012—Apr 29 2012 Sidney Harman Hall

At the official program launch, PlayWriting Australia‟s Artistic Director Chris Mead announced the full program of events on offer at the 2012 National Play Festival which comes to Melbourne for the first time this year.

Call for participation in the 7th Marivan International Outdoor Theater Festival is released.