Mahdi Shafiee, director General of Dramatic Arts Center, said a message to express condolences on the sudden death of Iranian theater artist Majid Vahedizadeh on Wednesday, November 22.

Head of Kermanshah Performing Arts Association Mohammad Reza Darand said that theatre groups of 30 provinces had expressed readiness to perform in regions shake by 7.3-magnitude quake last Sunday.

'Mr Chef', which is written and directed by Omid Asadi, was opened at Hafez Theater at the presence of artists and veteran members of cinema, television and theater family.

Eight cities of western province of Hamedan have been designated as hosts of the International Theater Festival of Children & Youth. The cities includig Bahar, Nahavand, Famenin, Kaboudarahang, Malayer, Toyserkan and Razan will host the special section of the festival to be hold in the province in ...

The 23rd Red Tulip Theater Festival has unveiled its official poster on Saturday in a ceremony attended by Andimesh Friday prayers leader, governor, head of Culture and Islamic Guidance Department and theater artists.

Nader Borhani-Marand, Farshad Manzouminia, Reza Samadpour, Hassan Moazeni and Kamran Shahlaei have been introduced as selection council of competitors of the stage section of the 6th City Theater Festival.

A criticism session about the life experience of women in today's society will be held at the Sangelaj Theater Complex following 'She Doesn't Live Here Anymore'.

Saman Khalilian has invited theater artists to come to Sarpol-e Zahab and Kermanshah with their puppets to make the quake-hit children smile.

A theater group of naghali (storytelling), headed by Morteza Asadi, performed a play in Sarpol-e Zahab, epicenter of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that hit western Iran last week in which 437 people were killed and close to 10,000 inured, for children.

Iran Theater: Simin Amirian is a writer, university instructor and theater director. She has written books and performed plays for children. 'Who Is the Smartest?', 'Little Granny' and 'Golgis' are among her published plays.

Ghazaleh Jazayeri and Marziyeh Sadraei have joined 'Highlight', which is directed by noted actress Sousan Parvar.

Ahmad Shahinfar is the director of 'I Miss Myself Sometimes'. He believes Ashura to Arbaeen Mourning Event has revitalized religious theater.

Maryam Kazemi, secretary of the 24th International Theater Festival of Children and Youth, wrote a notebook about adaption in writing plays following the submission of works to the secretariat of the festival.

Mohammad Reza Darand said that theater artists dispatched 2,000 food, 500 sanitary and 500 kid packages to Azgoleh, the epicenter of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that rocked Iran's western region, 15 off Iraq border, on Sunday evening.

Iran Theater: Older theater lovers know Ghasem Zare' for his theater acting. He has starred in the plays, directed by Hadi Marzban, Atila Pesiani, Houshang Tavakoli and the late Reza Karamrezaei. He is acting the role of a hospital physician in ‘The Scent of a Dream’, which is a puzzle-like maze ...

Qotbeddin Sadeghi, university instructor, actor and director, attended the re-opening of Arghanoun Theater Complex on Monday, watching ‘Good Sleep Sleep’, directed by Salim Bashokouh.

Noted director Arash Dadgar has chosen 15 actors of his new play 'Horse' out of 170 of those applied for the roles.

More than 180 dramatic literature works were submitted to the secretariat of the 36th Fadjr International Theater Festival as the deadline ended.

‘Agha Mohammad Khan’, which is directed by Navid Memar, took part at the 24th International Festival of UNIDRAM in Postdam, Germany.

Arghanoun Theater Complex opened on November 11 with two new plays ‘Meteorite’ and ‘Good Sleep Sleep’.

Iran Theater: After the end of WWI, writers such as German author and playwright Wolfgang Borchert and Austrian playwright Carl Mayer as well as artists such as film director of the German silent cinema Robert Wiene made expressionist products, depicting dark environment, loneliness, doubt and fear ...

Sajed Qodousian, director of ‘Narration of Love’, believes it will be a blessing for him if his play makes audience think deeply just for a moment about the martyrdom of Imam Ali (AS), the first Imam and the son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Alireza Tarameshlou, director of Tehran Theater Website, said that database of artists of the province would be launched while the website would undergo changes.

‘Manus’, the second play directed by Iranian director Nazanin Sahamizadeh, performed at International Theatre Festival organized by Nandimukh theater group at Chittagong Shilpakala Academy marking its 27th anniversary.

The performance of ‘The Good Soldier Švejk's’ was dedicated to Akbar Radi, late Iranian playwright. Hamideh Angha (his wife) and Arash Radi (his son) watched the performance.

'The Father', which is directed by Mahmoud Zandehnam, will open at Shahrzad Theater Complex within the next two weeks.

The 34th office of provincial associations was opened in Arvand Free Zone in southeastern Iran with the support of the Iran Association of the Performing Arts to help promote theater in provinces.

'Those Three Persons' is one of the plays of Ashura to Arbaeen gathering, which is warmly welcomed by audience and has two performances every day at Ejra Plateau of the City Theater Complex. It is a play that get the audience straight to the point.

Iran Theater: Javad Pourzand plays a multi-faceted deeply introvert character in ‘The Colonel’. He presents an acclaimed acting. He plays Einoddolleh’s henchman in the piece and pictures different aspects of a character.

Secretariat of 24th International Theater Festival of Children & Youth announced those interested must submit their plots for opening and closing ceremony not later than November 6.

Mohammad Reza Khaki, theater director and university professor, was a guest who saw ‘Barefoot in the Park’, which is directed by Maryam Bagheri, on Friday.

The 23rd Media Exhibition closed on Friday in which Iran Theater was chosen as one of the most active cultural and artistic stand of the event.

Spain’s Monolit Festivals awarded ‘I Am Her’, which is directed by Mehdi Mashhour.

Iran Theater: Human and his surrounding world can be subjects of many plays. One of these subjects is immigration, which acts like a double-edged sword. It can lead to happiness or misery.

Selection Council of 24th Children and Youth Theater Festival has announced seven plays as the final competitors of the young adults section while one play is conditionally admitted.

Deputy culture and Islamic guidance minister for artistic affairs visited Iran Theater stand at the 23rd Media Exhibition in Tehran, saying that the website had improved over the past year significantly compared to the previous years since it was established as the window to Iran performing arts.

Maryam Kazemi, secretary of Children & Youth Theater Festival, said that media should not judge about the good or bad points of performances.

Seyyed Abbas Salehi, minister of culture and Islamic guidance, said at a gathering at the 23rd Media Exhibition in Tehran, that new debates had been underway over the past two months to increase state supports for theater.

War and people have always been a good subject for creating stories and making plays or movies. Mehdi Nasiri stays away of clichés and propaganda in his ‘Don’t Let This Dream Comes True’. He has adopted a realistic approach towards war. He focuses on the relationships of three soldiers ...

Hamid Reza Naimi dedicated ‘The Good Soldier Švejk's’ performance to late Iranian story writer and scholar Ali Ashraf Darvishian, who passed away on October 26 at the age of 76, on Saturday.

Ruhollah Jafari, a professor at Islamic Azad University’s Science and Research Branch, said that ‘Rahmard’ is inspired by mourning performing arts of Iran such as Ta’zieh and Hamed Hoshyari, its director, has managed to show that Ta’zieh as an art could turn into theater.

Biuk Mirzaei and Hassan Mehmani attend the stand of Iran Theater at 23rd Media Exhibition in Tehran.

Iran Theater: Theater and cinema are two important mediums of the world art and visual media. They have had many fans and lovers over the years. The two medium have attracted many artists to tell their ideas and theories since they were born. This has led to competition among them to reflect ...

Iran Theater will pay tribute to Mostafa Oskouei, founder of Anahita Theater and Iran modern theater on the occasion of his 12th death anniversary on Saturday at Iran 23rd Media Exhibition.

Abolhassan Davoudi, noted filmmaker, wrote a notebook after watching ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ and recommended audience to see the piece apart from so-called intellectual showoffs to enjoy a really good performance.

The final stage of review of submitted works of children theater section of the 24th Children and Youth Theater Festival, which will take place in the western city of Hamedan in November, is over.

Maryam Kazemi, secretary of 24th Children and Youth Theater Festival, said at the western city of Hamedan that she would try to establish with veteran and young artists of the field for organizing the festival.

Maryam Kazemi will perform 'Dreams of Summer Night' in summer of 2018 with students of an ongoing workshop in southeastern city of Varamin in Tehran province.

The Supervision and Overseeing Council has issued permission for performance of six new plays on Ashura, tenth of lunar month Muharram and the day the third Shia Imam Hussein was martyred in the battle of Karbara, and the sacred defense (Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988)).

Noted theater and cinema actor Jamshid Mashayekhi is hospitalized due to poor health and kidney disease on Sunday.

Karim Akbari Mobarakeh said that ‘Rahmard’, which had focused on Ta’zieh passion play, could attract the audience, stressing that the country’s religious and ritual plays needed investment.

‘Namayesh’ Monthly & ‘Theatre’ Periodical will welcome visitors and readers at 23rd Media Exhibition in Tehran.

Iran Theater: ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ is a multi-character play with more than 30 actors. One of the acclaimed acting in this play is undoubtedly that of Amir Hossein Rostami. He plays the role of a hypocritical, opportunist and smart priest. The priest’s encounter with Švejk creates ...

Selection Council of street theater competition has chosen the eight plays to compete for the award at the 24th Children and Youth Theater Festival in Hamedan in November.

Iran Theater will welcome artists, officials and lovers of theater to its stand at the 23rd Media Exhibition in Tehran on October 27 to November 3.

Ehsan Janami, director of ‘My Dreams Bleed’, singles out public performance of the plays taking part at the Ashura to Arbaeen National Mourning Event as positive.

'Barefoot in the Park', a romantic comedy by American playwright, scriptwriter and author Neil Simon, opened at Paytakht Theater on Monday, October 16.

Iran Theater: 'The Colonel', which is written and directed by Kheirollah Tagianipour, tries to picture part of Iran contemporary history (the Qajar dynasty) and dominance of ignorance, dependency and lack of patriotism among Iranians during the era. Atabak Nader who stars in 'The Colonel' ...

Director of ‘Qeysar’, Masoud Kimiai, watched ‘Dowlate Zaeifeh (Government of Women)’, which is directed by Asghar Khalili, at Iranshahr Theater Complex, on Monday, October 17.

Iran Theater: Kheirollah Taghianipour is among writers and directors of theater who pays due attention to Iranian identity. His artworks usually connect to the audience.