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 ...

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.