The 3rd day of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival The festival has reached midway point. However, the enthusiasm of the spectators has not deadened yet and it eases off the reporters’ exhaustion. The following is a brief report on the 3rd day of the festival:

he film director Steven Soderbergh — perhaps best known for the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise and “Traffic,” although his “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” will always come first for some of us — has tipped his hand a bit about his heretofore under-wraps stage project for the Sydney Theater ...

Hosting 23 stage productions and 29 performances of the other sections –includes Ta’ziye, Tea House, and Marionette - the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival passed halfway.

BEIRUT: The children at Amel Association in the suburbs of south Beirut have been awaiting our arrival all week. Some have already gathered in the center’s main room, where one boy stands inquisitively next to a poster that reads “No child labor allowed” in glaring bold font, while another ...

• Help to Poor Indian Artists There is a charity shop at the entrance hall of The House of Artists, that sells Indian masks by a troupe named “Cho Bangali” to raise money for the poor Indian artists.

The Edinburgh International Festival attracts top class performers of music, theatre, opera and dance from around the world. The festival also creates a prime time to promote the history and culture of Scotland.

3 books were published coincident with the International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival of Tehran.

IRAN THEATER – according to the Dramatic Arts Center’s public relations, at the requests of some directors to take part in the Iranian Theater Panorama section with adapted texts, the headquarters declared that besides the Iranian texts (first priority), adaptation is also acceptable.

The International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival should be a window for representing the rituals.

• 12 of London’s most exciting theatres have clubbed together to give away loads of free tickets to young people under 26, between now and March 2011.

The artistic director of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival, Mohammad Hussein Naser Bakht, elaborated on the programs of the festival in a press conference.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce three of its 2009-2010 season productions. The main stage season at the Linda Gross Theater will mark premieres from Atlantic co-founder David Mamet and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright ...

by Ken Ludwig Bay Area Premiere August 14 – 30 Ives Park, 7400 Willow St., Sebastopol Based on the timeless swashbuckling adventure by Alexandre Dumas, bring your whole family outdoors for the second production of the 2009 Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival and experience heroism, treachery, ...

Today the major problem of the ritual-traditional theater is their script, and if the problem is not resolved, it will irreparably mar this genre of the performing art.

The City of Tehran is connected to all of the associations and institutions through its Artistic & Cultural Organization and we ask them to increase their cooperation with the artistic and cultural activities.

“In the case of receiving any requisitions, we will send our inspectors to resolve the problem.” Mohsen Hashemi said about not finishing the project of the city theater’s subway station.

By Edward Bond A room in a high rise flat. The window overlooks the city street. A woman reads a story in a newspaper. It shatters her world. Her hopes for herself and the child she is carrying turn to fear. She tries to explain to her partner. He will not listen: “That kid’s a curse on me. ...

IRAN THEATER – “the usual dramatic forms we have in Iran are widely under the influence of western theater.” Member of the Islamic Congress, Javad Ariyan Manesh, said in a talk with the headquarters of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival.

Built in 1927, then the Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center is Pittsburgh’s premier stage for live theater. Holding 2,885 people the Benedum is also Pittsburgh’s largest theater, beating out Heinz Hall by about two hundred seats.

"One of the most efficient ways to challenge the effects of the foreign cultures is to develop the native rituals of a nation and fortunately the sublime Iranian culture possesses a great wealth of rituals, which should be studied throughout."

Of all of Shakespeare's comedies, "As You Like It" might just be the most difficult to follow. The comedy of romance and mistaken identity contains cross-dressing, character doubling and a fly-by gallery of supporting clowns whose paths intersect with a velocity that can make your ...

Today the more we proceed, the more we go far from our national theater, which in no wise deserves it.

Three stage productions made their way to the stage section of the 14th International Ritual-Traditional Theater Festival and the selection process came to an end. According to the reports from the festival's headquarters those three works are as follows:

WROCLAW, POLAND — Richard Schechner and Philip Arnoult, longstanding members of American theater’s avant-garde, chatted on the crowded staircase of The Centre for Study of Jerzy Grotowski’s Work and for Cultural and Theatrical Research as they waited in line for the final performance of Teatr ...

Chelsea’s Apollinaire Theatre Company will be staging classic works from the Theater of the Absurd: The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower by Jean Cocteau, Jack, or The Submission by Eugene Ionesco, and Humulus the Mute by Jean Anouilh. The performances are free (yes, free!) and will be performed at Mary ...

Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s 'richest, most ravishing comedy' (NY Times), is a dazzling, witty masterpiece of misunderstanding and quest for knowledge, resonating across centuries.

All My Sons was the first great success of Arthur Miller's supremely influential career and the play that launched him as one of the leading dramatists of the twentieth century.

On the "foot", directed by Anna Augustynowicz Coast Theater waited over a year since the implementation of the performance was moved from the previous season to the present. Austere visual spectacle, despite several great scenes, however, leaves a sense of large niedosytu.

The European festival season has begun and the Holland Festival is one that shouldn’t be missed

Artistic Director Robert Lyons proudly presents the 16th annual ICE FACTORY summer festival of new work.

Master playwright Athol Fugard's latest play comes home to The Fountain Theatre. The Fountain Theatre continues its unique relationship with one of the world's greatest living playwrights, Athol Fugard, with the West Coast premiere of Coming Home. Stephen Sachs directs Matthew Elam, ...

Best Musical Billy Elliot Best Actor in a Musical David Alvarez, Kiril Kulish and Trent Kowalik, Billy Elliot

May 11, 2009 A tree, denuded of leaves, hangs upside down from the ceiling, its bare branches sitting starkly against a gauze screen. A scrubbed pine table and chairs sit on stage. Video of rain, snow and roads are projected onto the screens. As a set design, it verges on austere.

Annotation to the play The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin is a series of 5 short stories and a fictional editorial introduction by Russian author Aleksandr Pushkin. The tales themselves are not related to one another, except that they are all said in the introduction to be stories told by ...

The 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival will start on Jan 22. IRAN THEATER – Most of the foreign productions of the festival belong to Poland and Italy, news center of the festival reported. “Babel” by Josef Marcoky, “The Table” by Carbido Theater Company, “Perfume of Time” by ...

The 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival will start on Jan 22. IRAN THEATER – Most of the foreign productions of the festival belong to Poland and Italy, news center of the festival reported. “Babel” by Josef Marcoky, “The Table” by Carbido Theater Company, “Perfume of Time” by ...