World Theatre Day is an opportunity to celebrate Theatre in all its myriad forms. Theatre is a source of entertainment and inspiration and has the ability to unify the many diverse cultures and peoples that exist throughout the world.

CHICAGO—Bertolt Brecht, who wrote such famous works as Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan, and perhaps the most well known, The Threepenny Opera, also wrote a marvelous Bavarian folk comedy (with music) entitled A Respectable Wedding.

As part of the 13th International Istanbul Puppet Festival, World Puppet Day will be celebrated March 21 and the World Puppet Exhibition will open simultaneously.

The Dramatic Arts Center's director, Hussein Parsai, has sent a massage to the 1st Pantomime Festival.

The National Theater of Korea marks its 60th birthday this year after decades of preserving and staging traditional Korean performing arts.

Azade Ansari is going to stage "Macando" at the Finland Puppet Festival. IRAN THEATER – directed by Azade Ansari, Macando will be stage in the Finland Puppet Festival which will take place from May 25 to 29.

Neil Pepe will direct a revival of David Mamet's A Life in the Theater on Broadway this fall. Casting for the production, which will be the play's Broadway premiere, will be announced at a later date.

According to a command by Hussein Parsai, Mohammad Heydari was appointed as director of the 29th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

Russia celebrated the 150th birthday of renowned 19th-century Russian novelist and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov on Friday with a series of cultural events held across the country.

Introducing the winners of the Audience Award, International Critics' Society's Award, International Competition and local winners, the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival came to its end yesterday at the Vahdat Hall.

Now let’s see. How many versions of “Frankenstein” will this make? Danny Boyle, the director of the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” is to direct a stage adaptation of “Frankenstein,” based on the novel by Mary Shelley, The Guardian reported.

IRAN THEATER – Yesterday the 9th night of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival passed. Bellow is some news of the final night of the festival;

He is remembered as the driving force that made the Hult Center a reality

To welcome the Lunar New Year festival (Tet), the Vietnamese Student Association in France will hold a number of cultural events, including a special program themed “Hello Spring 2010-Young Talent” to be held at the Gymnase Marie Bell Theatre in Paris on February 21.

With the launch this year of the new Audience Award, theatrelovers have an exciting opportunity to be part of the Laurence Olivier Awards.

Mumbai: Since Keli, the cultural organization that supports dying performance arts in the country started back in 1992, its festival director K Ramachandran had big hopes for it.

Rave reviews have been rolling in for the cast of "A View from the Bridge," which opened January 24 at Cort Theater on Broadway.

Rahim Abdolrahim Zade and Nikoo Mahdie- IRAN THEATER – The 1st day of the Fadjr Festival witnessed so many events which are briefly reported.

The world premiere of Prokofiev’s original and uncensored version of his epic opera “War and Peace” will be finally unveiled on January 22 in Glasgow.

The 1st Iranian Theater Marketing was inaugurated in the presence of the Dramatic Arts Center’s director, Hussein Parsai.

There was great excitement in the theatre world last Saturday when the nominations for the 2010 Irish Times Theatre Awards were announced.

Invited by the Persian speaking Moslems of London, “Tableau-Internal-10th Night” will be performed in February.

12 days later, after the Fadjr Festival, theaters will continue their repertories.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) brings Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece The Caucasian Chalk Circle to the Bay Area in a fresh take from Tony Award-winning director and designer John Doyle, whose work has been hailed by critics as "ferociously inventive.

4th Fujairah International Monodrama Festival from January 14 to 22, 2010. TCG/ITI-US is representing the United States for the first time at the Festival and will contribute through performance, dialogue and the signing of a cultural and artistic cooperation agreement with the Fujairah Culture and ...

Reza Ashofte - the press conference of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival was held in the presence of 210 journalists.

The 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival will start on Jan 22. IRAN THEATER – Most of the foreign productions of the festival belong to Poland and Italy, news center of the festival reported. “Babel” by Josef Marcoky, “The Table” by Carbido Theater Company, “Perfume of Time” by ...

The sixth ASSITEJ (International Association of Theater for Children and Young People) Korea Winter Festival, the largest children's performing arts event, will take place from Jan. 9 to 17 at various venues in Daehangno with eight productions from four countries.

Directed by Peyman Shariati, “Narrations of Revolution” will be performed by young and veteran narrators at the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

Celebrate Anton Chekhov’s 150th birthday at Hampstead Theatre with:

The outstanding musical “Olmasion Bu Olson” which is known as “Mashdi Ebad”, will be staged by Baku artists at the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

‘Santiago a Mil’ and the ‘Buenos Aires International Festival’ support Southern Cone theater as never before

Inspired by Shahname, “Last Feather of Phoenix” will be staged by Stefan Vailand in Farsi and German.

46theater companies will take part in the 1st Iranian Theater Marketing. IRAN THEATER – The theater companies which will participate in this Marketing are as follows:

by Tom Stoppard and André Previn National Theater of Poland - Following a sell-out run in 2009, the National's electrifying production returns for a strictly limited run in January 2010.

Since 2002 Contact has hosted Contacting The World, a biannual international project which brings together young people from around the world to create new theatre. Twinning companies so they can collaborate, exchange members and share ideas Contacting The World culminates in a two-week showcase and ...

Tele-Theater & Radio Drama Section Jurors of the Radio & Tele-Theater Section were introduced. IRAN THEATER – There are 185 Tele-Theaters and Radio Dramas which will be evaluated by Nader Borhani Marand, Rahman Seyfi Azad, and Mohammad Khazayi,

Back by popular demand, Dickens’ timeless classic of the true spirit of Christmas at the Gate.

The jury of the International Competition section of the festival includes three well-known artists from Canada, Sweden and Georgia.

Erik Vos (1929) for over 50 years is a scene from personal involvement with the world around them. The involvement of the actors that he requires. His oeuvre is characterized by its translation from classical pieces to the current time. For this it received the lifetime achievement of the VSCD.

A selection of the best stage productions of the Iran’s theater festivals will be stage in the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

The legacy of music in Indian theatre, experimental plays, creative forms of expressions and new wave theatre with an ethnic flavour from small towns will be the highlights of the annual theatre festival of the National School of Drama (NSD) Jan 6-22.

The 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival hosts well-known theater directors and actors.IRAN THEATER – The news center of the Fadjr festival issued the final list of the theatrical faces, who will take part in the festival.

The National Theatre of Greece is based in Athens, Greece. The theatre was originally founded in 1880 with a grant from George I and Efstratios Rallis to give theatre a permanent home in Athens.

The outdoor space of the City Theater and the Vahdat Hall’s parking lot will host the Fadjr Festival besides the 19 venues.

Al Pacino will bring Shylock to New York audiences next summer in Central Park. Pacino will take part in Public Theater's popular Shakespeare in the Park offering of the classic Merchant of Venice, which he played on screen in 2004.

Cüneyt Gökçer, one of Turkey’s most distinguished and prolific stage actors, revered for his performances of Shakespearean characters, died on Wednesday in Ankara. He was 89.

Three members of the International Theater Critics Society and two members of the National Theater Critics Association of Iran will evaluate the works of the Fadjr International Theater Festival.

The list of accepted works of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival’s Guest section was announced.

Down a grim alley in Wapping, past elevated train tracks and housing projects, sits the world’s oldest music hall, Wilton’s (Graces Alley, E1 8JB; 44-20-7702-2789; www.wiltons.org.uk; Tube: Tower Hill/Aldgate East), where a return engagement celebrates its 150th anniversary.

Simin Amirian is going to stage "The Amber" in the Panorama section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival.

The second International Afro-Asian Theatre Festival would be held at Thrissur from December 20 to 29.

We may think of alphabet books as being for preschoolers and first-graders.

Text by Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve, directed by Michel Fau, with Louis Arena, Joris Avodo, Julian Barret, Astrid Bayiha, Barbara Bolotner, Hadrien Bouvier, Valentin Carbonnières, Ludmilla Dabo, India Hair, Matila Malliarakis Marie Marquis Jean-René Oudot, Fannie Outeiro, Melody Richard and ...

IRAN THEATER – The selection committee of the street section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival includes Behzad Sediqi, Payam Azizi and Shahram Karami, has approved 7 works. Also 5 works have been selected conditionally and 2 works have been selected for the non-competitive section.

The Deutsche Theater in Berlin last week gave its own "Yes" answer by staging a theatrical version of "To Be or Not To Be," Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 cult movie that satirizes Germany's takeover of Poland.

According to the Publication & Research Office of the festival, 6 researches, 3 drama collections and 2 plays will be published during this round of the festival.

China Heaven Creation International Performing Arts Co. Ltd (CHC) Monday formally took over the ownership of the White House Theatre in Branson, Missouri, making the first ever successful purchase of an American theatre by a Chinese company.

The director of the Dramatic Arts Center announced the organization of the religious festivals.

Composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Fosse, Godspell, Pippin) will be honored with the inaugural Junior Theater Festival Award for his contributions to the Advancement of Musical Theater for Young People.