"The homeland is not only a piece of land, it's a memory, it's love, it's pain" is a line of dialogue in the play Melody of the Rainy City by a renowned contemporary Iranian playwright, Akba…
The play Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran, authentically narrates the story of a famous fatal Porsche crash in north Tehran that triggered heated debate on social media about…
The play White Rabbit Red Rabbit is an experimental piece by the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour that has become a theatrical phenomenon. It has been performed around the world over 2…
The 39th Fadjr International Theater Festival celebrated a wide range of performances, from staged plays and street performances to radio plays and television plays (Teletheater), over ten d…
James Shapiro is a Shakespeare scholar and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of eight informative books that each have uniquely share…
Niayesh Nahavandian is a young, Iranian female performing artist that has lived and worked in Italy for five years. She has performed and studied with various Italian theater companies inclu…
After four months of closure, theaters in Iran are able to open because they implemented necessary health protocols to avoid coronavirus spread. They were one of the last businesses to reope…
Jonathan Pitches is a Professor of Theater and Performance at the University of Leeds. He is the Deputy Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre and the author of three monographs: Scien…
A look at ongoing productions on Tehran's stages shows a growing interest in box office hit musicals like Les Misérables and Mary Poppins, and the remarkable presence of celebrities in thes…
A Review on Iranian Adaptation of Coriolanus in Tehran A free adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus was on stage at Tehran Independent Theater in August 2019 for a month. Th…