College students here are set to revive the annual Ibsen festival this month by bringing alive adaptations of plays by the 19th century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Five plays by the iconic playwright will be interpreted by student theatre groups from the Delhi University and the Jawaharlal ...

“Siege”, written by Marin Ballschtide, is set to be published in Farsi concurrent with 19th International Children and Young Adult Theater Festival.

The 17th international theater festival Belaya Vezha 2012. Classics Plus will take place in Brest on 7-14 September. Best classics in traditional and innovative interpretations will be presented by 26 theater companies from 11 countries, director of the festival Alexander Kozak told a press ...

  A weeklong theatre festival, in honour of the iconic playwright Selim Al Deen, begins today at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. Selim Al Deen Foundation and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy are jointly arranging the festival, while Dhaka Theatre and Bangladesh Gram Theatre are ...

Bradley Cooper's shirtless, hairlessrun in "The Elephant Man" at the Williamstown Theatre Festivaljust ended, and the actor tells E! Onlinehe's ready to take the production to Broadway.

Cast includes Jane Brennan, Jasper Britton, Tom Canton, Aaron Heffernan, Bosco Hogan, Emmet Kirwan, Andrew Macklin, Charlotte McCurry, Frank McCusker, Lise Ann McLaughlin, Bairbre Ní Chaoimh, Kate O'Toole, Michael Sheehan, Ali White and Susannah de Wrixon

Young London-based Defibrillator Theatre Company will take over three suites across three floors of the Grange Holborn Hotel in central London to perform three Tennessee Williams plays – Green Eyes, The Travelling Companion and Sunburst that have previously been unproduced in the U.K. 

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. 

Bijan Nemati-Sharif, sculptor, painter and puppet-maker, died of long-term terminal illness.

Ghader Ashena, director of the Dramatic Arts Center, sent condolences to the family and the art community of Bijan Nemati-Sharif, veteran Iranian sculptor and artist, over his demise, Iran Theater website said.

 Davoud Kianian, Bahram Shahmohammadlou, Mojtaba Mahdi, Hossein Safi and Naser Avijeh were appointed as members of the Selection Board of the 19th International Children and Young Adults Theater Festival.

In this remarkable bilingual production directed by Marion Potts, the lush lyricism of Federico García Lorca’s writing is wedded to a contemporary sensibility utterly of the now.

Twelve Iranian dramas will be published in Armenian based on a memorandum of understanding between Iran’s Theater House and Armenia’s Association of Playwrights.

Milad Nikabadi will direct “Bitter Like the Blood in the Veins of Yerma” in Belarusian White Tower International Theater Festival.   “Bitter Like the Blood in the Veins of Yerma was directed by Nikabadi last year in Iran’s Fourth International Student Theater ...

One of Shakespeare’s most charismatic villains cuts a scorched-earth swath through the politicos, power-mongers, and even his own family members who stand between him and the crown.

The second International Theatre Festival for Peace will return to the central Colombian city of Barrancabermeja for nine days of collective creativity.

On the occasion of August 7, the National Journalist Day, Ghader Ashena, director general of Dramatic Arts Center, congratulated the media corps, Iran Theater website reported.

Ali-Asghar Dashti with “Tal-Zahhal”, which is his joint play with group “Mess & Fiber” and Azadeh Shahmiri as a jury member of young groups section will represent Iran in Zurich Theatre Spectacle.

Today Willie White announced details of his first programme as Artistic Director of the Dublin Theatre Festival. The 55th anniversary Dublin Theatre Festival will run for 18 days from 27 Sept – 14 Oct at various venues around the city. - This year the Dublin Theatre Festival will celebrate ...

XMAS Productions presents the classic masterpiece of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” for the first time to Cypriot audiences from July 12th to September 3rd following the innovative adaptation of Patrick Marber “After Miss Julie” was first broadcasted by the BBC in ...

Nicholas Hytner's production of Richard Bean’s play, which is based on Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, is currently booking until 12 January 2013.

The New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard, will feature Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf at Signature Theatre Company's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. Performances begin Aug. 14 toward a Sept. 9 opening.

The deadline for submission of stage dramas to participate in the 31st Fadjr International Theater Festival is extended by August 15.

The U.K.'s Theatrical Management Association will hold its annual Theatre Awards U.K. ceremony (formerly the TMA Awards) Oct. 28 at London's Guildhall, a medieval listed landmark in the City of London.

 “Garbage Revolution”, written by Asghar Khalili and directed by Mojtaba Khalili, is going to perform in Ryan Scot festival in India.

 “Macbeth, Only the First Dog Knows Why He Barks”, directed by Ebrahim Poshtkoohi, was invited to Moscow Nights Festival.

The 66th Festival d'Avignon will end on 28 July 2012. 

International section of the Fadjr International Theater Festival is one of the most important sections of the festival, which help attract many audiences to the auditoriums.

“Last Supper” will take part in the international theater festival of Kijimuna Festa 2012 in Japan.

Godi Parvaz Theater Group performed “Godi Boz (Goat)” in Birjand on June 1.

Hamed Nasrabadian will go to Malaysia to perform two physical plays and two body language workshops in Malaysia’s Multimedia University (MMU) and Gooya Media.

Kioomars Moradi staged “A City Without Sky” in Italy’s experimental theater festival.  

 Each year the festival directors invite from around the world 25 to 30 individuals and companies whose creations are marked by formal independence, innovative character and artistic ambition.

Willy Loman is feeling his age. He and his wife Linda are struggling to make their mortgage repayments. The company he works for is branching out in new directions and it looks like he’s about to be left behind. When his university drop-out son, Biff, moves back home after years of ...

Carrie Cracknell directs this whirling drama, a new version of Ibsen’s 1878 classic written by Simon Stephens, which sees one woman’s reality fall to pieces – and, under the dexterous handling of this talented pair, as well as a first-rate cast, this modern, intense and utterly ...

Going by the complete title of (get ready for it…) “International street theatre festival: Behind door and International festival of dance and physical theatre,” the annual festival taking place in the Czech capital, both outside and inside — on Wenceslas Square and at ...

Some call him the greatest playwright since Shakespeare. No matter which side of that argument you take, (feel free to weigh in on the poll at the left) PICT's festival makes a compelling case for his genius. Four unique productions - 37 days of festival performances and special events to ...

Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for Signature Theatre Company, will begin Aug. 7 at The Irene Diamond Stage in The Pershing Square Signature Center.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2012 National Playwrights Conference begins July 4 with Provenance by Anne García-Romero, in Waterford, CT.

MaryImmaculate College’s state of the art Lime Tree Theatre will welcome a major touring production from the Abbey Theatre to mark the official opening of the new venue.

Athol Fugard’s Statements After an Arrest under the Immorality Act heads for Edinburgh and beyond.

Hamid Samandarian, the veteran Iran’s theater artist and director, passed away on July 12.

  Deputy Culture and Islamic Guidance for artistic affairs appointed members of the board of trustees. Hamid Shahabadi, PhD, the deputy minister, appointed Saeed Kashen-Fallah, PhD, Mohammad-Bagher Ghahremani, PhD, Ali Montazeri, PhD and Ghader Ashena separately as members of the ...

The celebrated Avignon Festival marks its 66th edition this year by giving English theatre director Simon McBurney —one of the most original and prolific voices in contemporary theatre—carte blanche to select this year's programme. Every July, the normally sleepy medieval town of ...

Payman Shariati was appointed as new director of the Dramatic Art Center’s Public Relations Office.

Danish ambassador to Tehran and his family attended “Hafez Puppet Opera” on July 8.

Sixty productions will be produced in the Third Truth Theater Festival in October, Mahmoud Farhang, executive director of the event, told Iran Theater website.

 “Fatherly” won three awards at the International Student Drama Festival (ISDF) in England.