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.

The board to choose the plays lining up at the 19th International Children and Young Adults Outdoor Theater Festival is selected.

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  Description Written in the early 17th century William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of those plays that has permanently imprinted itself in common awareness. It is weighed down with over four hundred years of stage productions, hence, when embarking on a new realisation one ...

We are pleased to inform you that  Dramatic Arts Center of Iran will hold the 31st Fadjr International Theater Festival from 15th to 31st  January , 2013( in 2 parts: first from 15th to 19th Jan for Workshops , Lectures  ,… second  from 21st to 31st January, for Stage ...

We are pleased to inform you that the Dramatic Arts Center of Iran will hold the  7th  International Street Theater Festival from 5th to 10th of May 2013  in Iran .

Today the Utah Shakespeare Festival announced an exciting change in its 2012 season. Les Misérables, one of the world’s most popular shows and Broadway’s third longest running musical, will be playing in the Randall L. Jones Theatre from June 23 to October 20.

Ohio Valley Summer Theater (OVST) kicks off its 2012 season on June 21 with a new translation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Cherry Orchard, being performed in Ohio University's Forum Theater through July 1. The new translation is by local thespian Lyrr Descy, who is also directing ...

From its first season with two productions in a tent, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival launched its 60th season with a gala performance of Much Ado About Nothing.

Kalaakul’, the only Konkani theatre repertory, promoted by city-based Mandd Sobhann, will be staging a theater festival titled ‘Kalaakulotsav’ at Don Bosco Hall on Saturday June 23 and Sunday June 24.

An international theater festival kicks off in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk on Tuesday, in an event that is timed to coincide with the bicentenary of the birth of renowned Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov.

Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s sixth season opens June 7 with William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.

The sixth Daegu International Musical Festival (DIMF) will heat up the southeastern city of Daegu with musical performances from five countries from June 15 to July 9.

American Premiere Production Composed by Philip Glass Libretto by Martina Winkel Directed by Sam Helfrich

By August Strindberg; translated by Ulrika Brand; adapted by Leslie Lee; directed by Robert Greer; dramaturgy by Eszter Szalczer; sets by Angelina Margolis;

The incomparable, Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim is up close and personal in this landmark theatrical event, Sondheim on Sondheim.

Tonight's 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards will be presented by Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Rylance, Justin Bartha, Leslie Odom Jr., Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Tonya Pinkins, Topher Grace, and Tracee Chimo.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's comedy is nonetheless a ruthless play about small-time, cutthroat real estate agents. Behind the suave exteriors are lies, blackmail, scheming and desperation, all in a day’s work.

The Shaw Festival launches its second half century of celebrating the plays, era and influence of George Bernard Shaw.

Story teller par excellence, Saadat Hassan Manto is being remembered very fondly in Pakistan. Though born at Samrala near Ludhiana in Indian Punjab, Manto is much acclaimed in Pakistan Punjab.

One of Shakespeare’s most deeply psychological plays is given a riveting, utterly original reimagining by the National Theatre of Scotland.

Arthur Miller’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman, in a new production directed by eight-time Tony Award winner Mike Nichols, stars Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew ...

 “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit”, written by Nassim Soleymanpour, continues its simultaneous performances in San Francisco, Seattle and Brighton.

Jonathan Pryce—two-time Tony and Olivier Award winner (Miss Saigon, Hamlet) and film actor (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean)—is joined by Alan Cox and Alex Hassell in this major revival of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker.

Theatre lovers, pack your bags and head to Istanbul. The Opening Ceremony of the 18th Istanbul Theatre Festival will be held on Wednesday, 9 May.

“Once” leads the pack at this year’s Tony Awards, with 11 nominations, including Best Musical and honors for leading actor, leading actress, direction and book. Other top shows, with eight of more, were “Follies,” “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” ...

The Tony nominees for the 2011-2012 Broadway theater season will be announced Tuesday morning, and making predictions is a bit tougher than in recent years.

Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker have a volatile date with destiny in the multi-ethnic Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which officially opened April 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre.

One of the most anticipated theater festivals, the Globe to Globe Festival, was inaugurated in London on the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games. The Greek National Theater presents a performance of “Pericles,” directed by Giannis Houvardas in translation by Dionysis Kapsalis in the ...

French theater director Emmanuel Daumas will be in Istanbul to direct a play at Kadir Has University April 28 and 29. Daumas will stage three short plays for the launch of Istanbul’s first annual New Theater Festival, with the support of the French Cultural Institute.

6 Characters in Search of a Director, a new play from writer/director Steven Berkoff will play the West End's Charing Cross Theatre. Performances begin May 16, with opening night set for May 23.

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.