When it comes to celebrations and festivals, London is known for its wide cultural variety. More often than not there is a week-long festival taking place celebrating a niche in music, art, theatre or fashion. One such cultural celebration running over the next two weeks is the South Asian ...

Often we picture Shakespeare's plays as large and panoramic, with characters thundering over field and plane, or at least spreading across a grand stage to match the richness and descriptive mastery of the language.

The radio play by Samuel Beckett All That Fall, which ends its 4 week run at the Jermyn Street Theatre, a small Off West End venue on 3 Nov 2012, transfers to the larger West End Art's Theatrefor 23 performances from 6 to 24 Nov 2012.

Public relations director “Peyman Shariatie” and Deputy of Financial/Administration of the Center for Performing Arts “Mehdi Shafiee” visited Iran theater website’s booth at the 19th International Press and News Agencies Festival on Monday Aban 8( 30 Oct 2012).

3rd Sahebdelan Theatre Festival will be inaugurated parallel to beginning of street theater section of the same festival on Thursday 11 Aban (Nov 1) by Deputy of Art Affairs of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance on City Theatre’s area.

Pirouz Mirzaie’s “Simorgh” play has been awarded the best play in India’s Katak Festival.

Center for Performing Arts financially supports performances of registered groups in rural cities, provided their plans have been approved.

Press and Information Deputy of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad Jaafar Mohammadzadeh visited Iran theater website’s booth yesterday, Monday Aban 8th.

The short stories of acclaimed Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto are set to come alive although a series of performances, film screenings, readings and lectures at Amdebkar University, Delhi (AUD), next week.

On the occasion of executing the 13th seasonal workshop of Iran’s theater’s four seasons permanent project, the 14th announcement of this project under the headlines of historic-political plays is published.

Performances of EGHS’s production of Neil Simon’s award-winning play "Lost in Yonkers" will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, Oct. 25, 26, and 28, at the Boardman Auditorium in Eveleth. The first two shows are evening performances at 7 p.m., and Sunday's ...

“Dastanak (Short Story) “ play from Amir Hossein Shafiee won the awards of Best Director and Supporting Actress  for Raziyeh Deh Payiniee’s performance.

“Fatherly” piece has been awarded in three categories of “Best Director” “Best Artist” and “Best Art Direction” in UK International Theater Festival.

An annual theater festival that began Thursday will last until Sunday, November 4 in Colombia's capital Bogota, presenting various forms of theater of all genres, for all ages throughout the city.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines opens its doors once again to theater artists, practitioners, and enthusiasts for the 4th National Theater Festival (NTF) happening from November 8 to 18, 2012.

«The Chekhov Brothers» is the first play about Chekhov’s youth and his relationships with his family. The genius-to-be is still full of health, vigor and joy. Young Anton has to be a bread-winner for his whole big family.

Mr. Shahram Nowshir has been assigned as the Director of Street Theater Center by Mr. Ghader Ashna. According to Iran Theater website, reporting from Performing Arts Center, the following has been included in his letter of assignment.

This long running Off-­‐Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904 just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world Afire with cubism

It premiered at Houston's Alley Theatre on August 24, 2012. Billed as a comedy, November centers on President Charles Smith (Lane) several days before his second election.

Ghader Ashena, director general of the Dramatic Arts Center (DAC), said in a message to the 19th International Children and Young Adults Festival that Iran’s rich ancient literature and theater could influence the soul of children.

A recently unearthed one-act play by Eugene O'Neill, "Exorcism," will receive a free reading this weekend at the 13th annual Eugene O'Neill Celebration at the Monte Cristo Cottage, the boyhood home of the playwright in New London.

Lebanese-Palestinian director and actor Kassem Istanbouli prepares to participate in the International Theater Festival of Algeria under the supervision of Governor Mr.

Three years after taking the helm of the city’s premier classical outdoor theater he has jettisoned the Bard’s works, literally, throughout the streets of St.

For its forthcoming National Children Theatre Festival, the Guwahati Sishu Natya Vidyalaya has decided to select six plays from across the country that will not only provide entertainment to the childrenbut will also educate and spread the relevant message.

The 16th edition of Korczak International Theater Festival, a review of a variety of theatrical forms used in theatre for young audience is being held in Warsaw on Oct 6-13.

Fringe Fest, the annual experimental theater extravaganza has announced its far-ranging 76-show 2012 lineup. Fringe Fest, which takes place from Nov.

A meeting of “Nations’ Theater” was held on September 30 within the framework of the 7th International Marivan Street Theater Festival.

Floriane Gaber, French theater director and professor who participated in the 7th Marivan International Street Theater Festival, praised the event.

The theater begins this year’s season with a new leader – famous director Andrii Bilous, who is the acting artistic director of the Molody Theater. A number of premieres will be presented: at times they will be provoking and intriguing, and some will be sentimental, emotional, and ...

Golab Adineh, Reza Babak and Abbas Jahangirian are named the jury members of the 19th International Children and Young Adults Theater Festival.

The Southtowns’ best kept secret is hidden no longer. A strong crowd attended Buffalo Laboratory Theatre’s fourth annual Curtain Up! gala on Sept. 14, which featured live music, champagne and hors de oeuvres before BLT’s riveting rendition of Tom Stoppard’s ...

The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-lake has commissioned a new play from Canadian-based playwright John Murrell based on George Bernard Shaw’s satirical work Geneva.

The Policymaking Council of Marivan Street Theater Festival held a meeting on September 15.

The Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival '12 is back, and is now in its ninth year! This year the theme celebrates one of the greatest playwrights of all time: William Shakespeare.

...and this hysterically funny tale of misdeeds, misadventure and mistaken identity has plenty of both!

Featuring: Rebecca Buller, Wesley Daniel, Aaron Todd Douglas*, Max Fabian, Laura T. Fisher*, Ricardo Gutierrez*, Anthony Kayer, Ariella Marchioni, Luce Metrius, Alexa Ray Meyers, and Erik Strebig

Alireza Koushk-Jalali will stage two plays in the City Theater Complex since September 23. The German-based Koushk-Jalali directs “The Path of Women” and “God of Carnage”.

Arriving in the medieval city’s ramparts everywhere is theatre posters.

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A meeting of the 19th International Children and Young Adults Festival’s Policymaking Council was held last week with the participation of minister of culture and Islamic guidance, deputy culture minister for artistic affairs, director general of Dramatic Arts Department, a group of ...

Milad Nikabadi is invited by Alexander Alexandrovich, head of Belarus’s International Theater Festival “Belaya Vezha” (White Tower)to have a joint production with Belarusian artists.

French theater will take center stage this fall at Princeton University, launching with a five-day French Theater Festival, Seuls en Scène, from Sept. 25 through 29. 

The fourth edition of the International Festival of Street Theater “B-FIT in the Street!” is taking place, for four days between September 13 to 16, 2012, in Piata Constitutiei, Piata George Enescu, Coltea Park, Piata 21 Decembrie 1989, Piata Unirii, the Historic Center and on all the ...

Politics! We're in the heat of our country's blistering presidential election process. In Carmel, as the national conventions catapult the candidates into their intense campaigns, a 400-year old play comes to life delivering a message that human political motivation hasn't change much ...

Voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a recent British Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists.

With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their work together, Julian Sands combines Harold Pinter’s poems and political prose to create a very fresh and intimate insight into the Nobel laureate’s literary legacy.

Attended by the Minister of Culture Rafael Bernal and the foremost political and governmental authorities in the province, the 14th edition of the National Theater Festival was set up at Camagüey’s Principal Theater on Friday, underway until September 15.

Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, adapted by British dramatist Rebecca Lenkiewicz and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, begins performances Sept. 4 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Tony winner Boyd Gaines plays the righteous title ...