In order to support and introduce the outstanding dramatic works, they had been suggested to be recited.

By Federico García Lorca In a new version by Rona Munro Directed by John Tiffany

The madness of the French Revolution and the madness of the everyday overlap and intertwine in “Marat/Sade,” the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Peter Weiss’ 1963 play, “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of ...

Those interested in the Photo & Poster section of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival should send their works by Dec 6.

IRAN THEATER – "199 works from 37 countries were submitted to the International section of the festival by Nov 1 which will certainly increase." Curator of the festival's International section, Mohammad Atebai, said.

Theatrefront director helms ambitious four-play project that spans 300 years Canadian playwrights have long been tempted to dip their pens in the inkwells of domestic history – from John Coulter's Riel to Rick Salutin's 1837 to Michael Hollingsworth's on-going VideoCabaret series.

IRAN THEATER – the news headquarters of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival announced the list of accepted texts of the Play Reciting Section:

Yaser Khaseb intends to experience a new form of mime composed with music and action.

John Kenley, a longtime theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 103.

Caligula By Homayoon Qani Zade in Fadjr Festival Homayoon Qani Zade is going to take part in the New Experiences section with Caligula.

Below is a brief talk which he has made with IRAN THEATER: Are your works all solely based on antic Iranian-Tajik literature? No, during 20 years of my profession I have also staged many classics such as Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekov, and Gogol. This production seems to be your first experience ...

A palimpsest Heiner Müller’s Philoctetes is not an adaptation of the Greek play but a palimpsest which erases and covers the original work, and lets it seep through like in an x-ray picture. Francis Bacon and Picasso used the same process with paintings by Velasquez.

Written and directed by Soltan Osmanof, an adaptation of Rostam & Sohrab is on stage for 10 nights at the Qashghayi venue of the city theater.

Directors who want to take part in the Experimental or Panorama sections of the Fadjr Festival, such as previous years, can apply for rehearsal rooms at the Theater Office.

From the celebrated author of such masterworks as Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel, comes Daphne Du Maurier’s enthralling gothic tale of mystery and suspense.

This year's İstanbul International Contemporary Performance Festival iDANS, running under the theme “Laughing-Crying,” engages in a thorough investigation to find the answer.

The Final ceremony of the 7th Razavi International Theater Festival was held on Oct 24 at the Vahdat Hall.

This event is co-sponsored by Flying Actor Studio. Coming to The Marsh is the INTERNATIONAL CZECH THEATER FESTIVAL that harvests a long developing series of mutual cooperation and long term inspiration of the movement artists, clowns, and directors connected with two leading master teachers:

Behrooz Qarib Pour will take part in the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival with an opera called Molavi.

Based on the novel by Bram Stoker Adapted by Nathan Weinberger Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili Choreographed by Irina Tsikurishvili Set and Costume Design by Anastasia R. Simes Lighting Design by Andrew F. Griffin

The second panel discussion of the Razavi Theater Festival titled "Religious Art, Religious Theater, Themes & Subjects" took place on Oct 21, in the presence of Hojat'ol Islam Zam, Hasan Bolkhari, and Hussein Mosafer Astane, at the conference hall of the city theater.

What happens to nice guys in this world? Bertolt Brecht began dealing with this question in the 1920s in a parable entitled “The Good Person of Szechuan.” The author completed the final version in exile in Scandinavia during World War II.

IRAN THEATER -- Regarding to some news about presence or absence of Bahram Beyzai in the Fadjr festival, the Observation & Evaluation Council announced:

On Monday, audiences at this year’s European Capital of Culture—Linz, Austria—will be privy to a multimedia theatre production that will spill the beans on Bollywood. With its 20-character cast, the musical Bollywood Bandwagon will address everything, from impossible plots to the casting ...

BAGHDAD — As the lights dimmed and the Iraq National Theatre's curtain rose to a wave of applause, six men in garish white suits and three rather more soberly-dressed women started to dance and sing a love song.

The First Press Conference of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival will take place in the presence of the festival's artistic director, Hussein Parsai, at the conference hall of the city theater.

Teatro de la Luna has started its 12th International Festival of Hispanic Theater with a one-man show from Colombia, Saulo Garcia's "El Insomnio Americano" ("The American Insomniac")

The press conference of the 7th International Razavi Theater Festival was held in the presence of Mohammad Khazai, on the 17th of Oct, at the press hall of the city theater.

"The behavior of the festival executive operators towards spectators and theater troupes was discomposing, and it seemed that they were trying to disorganize rather than organizing the festival!" Hamed Zahmat Kesh and Majid Bur Bur, who had participated in the 16th Children & Juvenile ...

a drama by Arthur Miller For Willy Loman, there is only one dream: the American Dream.

After evaluation, the list of accepted dramas which had been submitted for the Panorama section of the Fadjr Festival has been announced.

Shaw Festival Written by Eugene O'neil Directed by Joseph Ziegler "There’s only tonight, and the moon, and us ..."

After publication of 9 books in the field of children theater, the director of the Dramatic Arts Center, Hussein Parsai sent a massage to appreciate this activity.

IPANEMA THEATER TROUPE, who brought you the ovation-award winning production of “A Flea in Her Ear”, the LA Times Critic’s Choice “The Good Soul of Szechwan”, and the acclaimed “The Bacchae” at the Getty Villa.

"The Children & Juvenile Theater Festival is in the throes of death in Isfahan." a juror of the 16th International Children & Juvenile Theater Festival, Azita Hajiyan, said.

Mohammad Rahmanian is going to stage "The Day of Hussein" in December. IRAN THEATER – Scheduled to hit the stage on the occasion of Moharam, "The Day of Hussein" narrates the life of Imam Sajjad and will be performed in the Iranshahr Theater, but the cast is yet to be ...

By Harold Pinter Directed by Daniel Gidron October 1 - November 1

SYDNEY Theatre Company has struck box-office gold with its steamy, sell-out production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and will be hoping for the same next year with a more genteel play, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

The Festival is about to come to its end. IRAN THEATER – in the last days of the festival Honar Theater hosts a production called "Shelan Keshi" directed by Rajab Ali Fallah.

The troupes that want to participate in Theater Bazaar of Iran should apply up to Oct 12.

Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey and David Troughton star at London's Old Vic in Trevor Nunn's revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind, which officially opens Oct. 1. Previews began Sept. 18

The director of the Dramatic Arts Center, Hussein Parsayi sent a massage to the 16th International Children & Juvenile Theater Festival.

WHEN: September 9th - November 1st, 2009 WHERE: Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street, NYC DIRECTOR: Neil Pepe

The General Director of the Culture and Islamic Guidance Office of Isfahan, Seyed Ali Reza Hoseini, sent a massage to the 16th International Children & Juvenile Theater Festival.

A raging fire tore through and consumed the Pocono Playhouse in Monroe County early this morning, leaving nothing but the charred wooden frame and memories.

The works of the regional applicants, who want to participate in the Panorama and New Experiences sections of the Fadjr festival, will be evaluated in their towns

Director Frahad Aish, who has recently staged Rhinoceros, is about to set his modern take on the Shakespeare's classic.IRAN THEATER – "Since being in contact with wilder range of spectators is so important to me, I prefer to perform it in the main venue of the city theater.

with Laura Cameron, Melissa Holroyd, Tomas Spencer, Jesse Inman and Maureen Younger Set: Tomas Fitzpatrick / Lights: Katri Kuusimäki

Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and ...

The secretariat of the 28th Fadjr International Theater Festival has declared that after deadline, 94 texts have been submitted to take part in the Playwriting and Play Production section of the festival.

The press conference of the 4th Marivan Street Theater Festival was held in the presence of general director of The Kordestan's Culture and Islamic Guidance Office, Saed Imani, the festival's artistic director and member of the selection committee, Shahram Karami, the cultural deputy of ...

The 19th edition of the National Theater Festival bears the mark of its selector, the theater critic Cristina Modreanu, and – like every year – it includes a selection of the best shows from Romania and a short list of debutants, artists who will build the future of Romanian theater.

Director Peter Sellars sets his modern take on the Shakespeare classic in D.C., and says he found inspiration in recent history: Obama's election and inauguration, and the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "In the age of Obama," Sellars says, ...

Results of evaluating the theatrical sketches of the Fadjr Festival's street theater section were announced.

The foreign participants of the 16th International Children & Juvenile Theater Festival were introduced.

Famous Broadway musical 'Cats' will come to Colombia in November. It will premier in Bogota and then move to Medellin and Cali.

The main theatre festival of countries of former USSR (except of Moscow) High Fest: Sponsored by Armenia’s State Institute of Theatre and Cinema, the seventh edition of this festival repeats its three-tiered program of main stage, fringe and youth performances.

Behzad Farahani, Farhad Aish and Hussein Atefi were introduced as jurors of the 4th Marivan Street Theater Festival.

A new theater performance exploring the famous Ottoman court romance between Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem Sultan, featuring the music of prominent symphonic new age musician Can Attila, will debut at the Second City International Theater Festival in the Polish city of Legnica on Tuesday.

New artistic director Brett Sheehy has brought interdisciplinary ambition to this 26-country arts confab, which draws participants from as far as Brazil, China, Iceland, Liberia, Russia, Sudan and the U.S. “In 2009 we embark on a new vision