Almost half of this year's programme is made up of international plays.

Moscow’s Solo Theater Festival, in which each production features only one actor, opened with the world premiere of Iokasta by Greek playwright Sophia Hill.

The organizer of the 2011 Kaohsiung Theater Festival said Monday that an upcoming festival featuring a wide variety of theater shows could serve as a vital source of inspiration for creativity in southern Taiwan, where art has long been neglected.

„Teatro Stabile di Innovazione presenta, nell'ambito del Festival del Teatro Contemporaneo “L’ALTRA SCENA”, lo spettacolo "La casa di Bernarda Alba", di Federico García Lorca, per la regia di Antonio Díaz-Florián, in programma a Piacenza ...

The best plays of Kazakh theatres will be staged this week in Almaty. The city has opened a theatre festival dedicated to the 20th anniversary of independence. Eight Kazakh theatres will show performances based on the works of local authors.

The Leo City, as every year at this time, is holding the Golden Lion International Theater Festival. As its constant director Yaroslav Fedoryshyn told The Day, this year the Lviv citizens and guests will be invited to street performances performed by theater troupes from Poland, the Czech ...

Mississippi Mud Productions will begin previews of the first New York City off-Broadway Revival of Austin Pendleton's witty study of theatrical egos, ORSON'S SHADOW, Thursday, October 6, 2011 at the Theatre Row Studio Theatre (424 West 42nd St.).

The Arbil International Theater Festival has concluded its works on Saturday in the building of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Ministry of Culture & Youth.

The ancient Greeks were the first to use costumes, sets and actors to tell a story. Ever since, theater has been one of the most enjoyed forms of art.

Shota Rustaveli National Drama Theatre hosted the first day of the annual Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre with The Infernal Comedy starring American actor John Malkovich. The stage-play, directed by Michael Sturminger, is based on the real life-story of a convicted murderer.

Sheikh Hamad bin Hilal al-Ma'amari Undersecretary of Heritage and Culture Ministry for Cultural Affairs said that the ministry would establish 3 cultural centres in the Wilayat of Sohar, the Governorate of Al Buraimi and the Wilayat of Nizwa that was chosen as the Capital of Arab Culture ...

Yerevan will host HIGH FEST -2011 9th international theater festival on October 1-8. It is supported by the Armenian President and the Ministry of Culture.

The Egyptian Ministry of Culture held the second Children’s Theater Festival in Cairo. “Maarouf in the Sea of Letters” opened the event on Sunday.  

The Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), Kolkata, will hold a five-day Natya Utsav in association with the Tourism and Culture Department here from Tuesday.

The 19th International Festival Theatre brings an impressive lineup of Czech and international performanceFrom Sept. 14 to 22 the city of Plzeň will be a mecca for theater lovers as the 19th International Festival Theatre presents a full and varied program of works from leading Czech and ...

Sept. 9 is Children’s Day in Costa Rica, and a Children’s Theater Festival aims to celebrate the kiddies throughout the month at the National University (UNA) in Heredia, north of San José.

From Saturday, the Millennium city would lay out a kaleidoscopic canvas of drama and music with performers from across the world converging here to take part in one of the biggest events of amateur theatre and folk arts in the country.

The theatre groups “Kandimbas”, from Huíla province, “Nova Lua” (Kwanza Sul), “Olombangui” (Bié), “Protevida” and “Enigma”, both from Luanda, will make their first appearance at the inter-provincial festival of theatre ...

The Classical Theater of Harlem returns with its full first production in two years, a 90-minute version of Shakespeare’s play about power and war. As directed by Jenny Bennett, the production has hits and misses.

Satoshi Miyagi, celebrated Artistic Director of SPAC and successor to the legendary director Tadashi Suzuki, transforms the Greek masterpiece Medea into a play-within-a-play set in a late 19th-century traditional Japanese restaurant where male members of the establishment call upon the female ...

We are pleased to inform you that the Dramatic Arts Center of Iran will hold the 14th Tehran International Puppet Theater Festival _Mobarak  from 1st to 7th of  July  2012 in Tehran .

The Karnataka Natak Academy is hosting a three-day children theatre festival from Friday.

The inaugural show of The Artistic Home as a resident theatre at Stage 773  will be master playwright Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet, which will open on Oct. 2 at 7p.m. and run through Nov. 6, 2011.

Cast Cornelia Dörr and Franck Edmond Yao Amongst the few roles for black actors in the western world, the character of Othello remains the most celebrated. Yet Shakespeare’s famous moor is not widely known in Africa.

Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones have announced that the role of "Stella" will be played by two-time Tony Nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega and the role of "Mitch" will be played by Wood Harris, in the upcoming Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Emily Mann.

For two and a half weeks from the middle of August, an experimental theatre festival unfolds, often in unpredictable ways.

The Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre, currently on a tour of Beijing, is playing “The White Guard” after Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, “The Cherry Orchard” after Anton Chekhov and “Live and Remember” after Valentin Rasputin.

Every summer in Paris, wandering theatrical troupes present over 30 outdoor performances all over the city in the festival called Treteaux Nomades.

"Wu Hsing-Kuo and the Contemporary Legend Theatre, from Taipei, is a one-man show.

The stars come out to play at the forthcoming annual Sunshine Coast Theatre Festival at Buderim.

Komaba Agora Theater will stage a month long theater festival this summer, as they have done twice a year since 1989, aimed at exposing young, regional theater companies to a wider audience.

The smell of theatre is in the air this month in Paris.

E’ stata presentata con i relatori immersi tra le nuove scene dell’ultima produzione a.ArtistiAssociati (che debutterà il 7 novembre) la 14esima edizione della Stagione artistica del Teatro Comunale di Cormòns, con tanto di gag spassose regalate dai protagonisti de ...

A four-day theatre festival at El Sawy Culturewheel opens with sketches from four different plays by the famed Egyptian comedy icon Fouad El-Mohandes.

Last summer's production of "Twelfth Night" was such a hit for Fenix Theatre Company, producing artistic director Rob Cameron decided this was the year to present two plays -- at the same time.

In celebration of Tennessee Williams’ centennial year, Westport Country Playhouse will stage a special performance by acclaimed actor Richard Thomas in “A Distant Country Called Youth,” based on a collection of lively and evocative letters written by a young Tennessee Williams, ...

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

The Play The play, an adapted version of Ibsen's Lady from the Sea, focuses primarily on the three lead characters--Ellida Wangel, Dr. Wangel, and the stranger. This stranger, once engaged to Ellida, has a compelling power over her and has returned to take her away. The story weaves through ...

The world premiere of ten plays, including a new work by Colm Toibin, are among the pieces of theatre to be staged across the capital.

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey is headed for İstanbul this fall with a five-day run of his newest play, the critically acclaimed “Richard III,” the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) announced Thursday

Must-see theatrical masterpieces of a lifetime are coming to Korea. A total of 30 pieces — one each from eight countries as well as 22 Korean productions — will be on stage at the 5th World Festival of National Theaters from Aug. 31 to Oct. 30.

Theatre is mostly associated with acting, emoting, and dialogues. Rarely do we see emphasis on costume or set designing in theatre.

On stage, inmates perform for a society they cannot otherwise participate in. The Berlin theater company aufBruch, currently staging a production of "Don Quixote," has been putting on shows with prisoners for 13 years.

On July 18 – 22, a one-actor Theater Festival ArmMono dated to the 20th anniversary of proclamation of Artsakh’s independence opens in Artsakh, according to the Festival Director Marianna Mkhitaryan.

di Bertolt Brecht e Kurt Weill traduzione di Paola Capriolo regia Luca De Fusco con Massimo Ranieri

Sweeping across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, 'Emperor and Galilean' is the closest Ibsen has to a lost masterpiece - and Jonathan Kent's production for the Travelex £12 Season looks set to do jusctice to the epic scale with a cast of 50 and a production that promises ...

Brian Friel Thursday 23 June – Saturday 13 August The play is staged at the Abbey Theater of Dublin.

The Dubai Festival for Youth Theatre (DFYT), a one-of-its-kind initiative in the UAE, held under the patronage of Shaikh Majid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture, to promote Emirati theatre talent, has drawn in record submissions in its fifth cycle.

Heracles returns from the Underworld, where he has gone to fetch Cerberus, and discovers that his family has been sentenced to death by Lycus, the illegitimate ruler of Thebes.

A puppet performance by Margrit Gysin, a German play with live music and a kathakali performance are part of this year’s AHA! children’s theatre festival

June 22 – July 3 by Tennessee Williams directed by David Cromer  

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical mastermind behind Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar, and his production company The Really Useful Group, are planning on bringing their current West End revival of The Wizard of Oz to Broadway

Satoshi Miyagi, the artistic director of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), admitted during a press conference in April that he had thought about calling off the center's international theater festival following the March 11 disasters that hit Japan's northeastern Tohoku region

The Moscow Taganka Theatre company is winning huge public acclaim as it continues its successful tour of the Czech Republic which began in Hradec-Kralove on Wednesday

Kuwait is set to partake in Morocco's Asilah Children's Theatre Festival from 24-30 June with a judge from its Higher Institute for Theatrical Arts

Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic with cooperation of the Arts and Theatre Institute Prague announces the 12th edition of Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space

The best theatre companies from eight countries and nine Russian regions are taking part in the 10th international theatre festival Nowruz, which is due to get under way in Tatarstan’s capital Kazan later today

It must be a marriage made in heaven — Moscow and the Chekhov International Theater Festival. Because even in this, the festival’s 10th official running, it still is capable of creating a program that includes something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue

The second Abhinaya Summer Theatre Festival, organised by the Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre, will be held in Kottayam from May 27 to 29.

Three local troupes staged four plays on the second day (May 22) of the ongoing 1st Dhaka International Theatre Festival at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy ،BSA