While marquee productions have featured star turns from Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming, smaller shows deal with contemporary life.EDINBURGH — Some big names have been leaving their mark this month in Edinburgh, where both the International Festival and the bustling theatrical grab bag that is the Fringe are in full swing after a slimmed-down pandemic lineup last year. Ian McKellen and Alan Cumming have proved...

Jodi Picoult and the Team Behind Between the Lines Reflect on the Power of Female Voices in TheaterBetween the Lines, based on the novel by Picoult and her daughter Samantha, is now running at the Tony Kiser Theater.When bestselling author Jodi Picoult set out to adapt her YA novel Between the Lines into a musical, she was trying to locate two unicorns.At least that's how she described her search to find a female...

Reports of the 11th MaktabeTehran Theater Festival;The fifth report: holding the third session of the practical classes of directing (classes for presenting the practice of student theater groups)  On Saturday, August 1st, the third session of the practical presentation of student theater groups was held with the presence of Jalal Tehrani. In this series of meetings, each time different groups present the results of their...

Milosh Andonovski (1989) was born in Kumanovo, North Macedonia. He graduated Comparative literature in 2012 at the Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski” at “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” University.  In 2014 he obtained his MSc degree in Cultural studies at the Institute for Macedonian literature by conducting a research in which 31 professional actors took part, titled as The influence of cultural and psychological processes on an actor...

‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed LoversWith age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.GARRISON, N.Y. — A romance and a love story are two different things. In art, we’re not great at differentiating.Take “Romeo and Juliet,” a corpse-ridden romantic tragedy routinely mistaken for a tale of deepest love, even though the lovers are...

"MaktebeTehran ; in these days"The week ending Sunday 24th of julyRegistration for the new of workshops of Jalal Tehrani is on going. The intensive one-semester playwriting workshop will start next week. This workshop focuses on writing a long play by students.During this workshop, each student will write a long dramatic text. According to the new parts of each student's text, necessary training is provided for them.The exercises...