Art And Culture

Theater director, playwright and stage designer Amir Reza Koohestani, 38, is to stage Wagner’s Tannhauser opera in Germany.

American playwright, screenwriter and author Neil Simon’s play ‘The Good Doctor,’ is on stage at 3-Noghte (3 Dots) Hall in Tehran.

Directed by theater director Arsam Fatahi, the comedy…

Works of Iranian painter Mohsen Kavoosi will be displayed at the third edition of World Art Dubai, slated for April 12-15.

A self-taught painter, Kavoosi will put on display five of his…

Director, actor, dramatist and translator Dariush Moaddabian is conducting a training workshop on situation comedy (or sitcom), a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry…

A 1999 young adult novel ‘Speak’ by American writer Laurie Halse Anderson, 55, is now available in Persian.

The book was a finalist at the US National Book Award for Young People’s…

Iranian music band Pallett has released a new collection titled ‘Endless Ending.’

It is the third collection by the avant-garde and innovative band, which includes additional videos and…

The play ‘Strange But True’ designed and directed by Iranian performance artist Yaser Khaseb will take part in the ‘Festival Ardanthe’ in Vanves, France, in March.

A production of Crazy…

Jean Genet’s ‘The Maids’ is underway at Entezami House Museum in Tehran. The play is a 1947 attempt by the French novelist, playwright, poet and essayist to analyze the mores of a bourgeois…

The modified version of the documentary ‘House of God’ directed by the late  actor and filmmaker Jalal Moqadam will be shown at the 35th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF), slated for…

A joint concert by Parvaz Homay and Alim Qasimov, ‘Two Mad Men in a Flurry’ (in Persian: ‘Janjale Do Divaneh) is slated for March 9 in Tehran.

Iran and Italy will hold a literature conference slated for March 2 and 3 in Rome, to analyze and investigate the literary and aesthetic components in the their two cultures.

World renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won the Oscar for the best foreign language film at the 89th Academy Awards, which turned into a platform for censuring President Donald…

A comedy ‘Sholay II,’ based on the 1975 Bollywood action-adventure film ‘Sholay’ is underway at Tehran’s Hafez Hall.

The play ‘Paper Dream’ on peace advocacy, directed by dramatist and theater director and actor Reza Faqihi, 34, has been selected from among 12 Iranian works to participate in Turkey’s 12th…

A seminar on ‘Vernacular Technology in Traditional Arts’ is to be held at the Iranian Academy of Arts in Tehran on March 8.

The Research Department of the academy which is affiliated to the…

After Fars, Bushehr will be the second province to have mobile cinema, according to Seyed Mostafa Abtahi, managing director of Visual Media Institute, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and…

An Iranian feature film and a short animation have won top awards at two foreign festivals.

‘Lantouri’ directed by Reza Dormishian and ‘Unveiling Ceremony’ by Mehdi Boostani are the two…

In honor of the renowned Iranian wrestler Gholamreza Takhti (1930-1968), the Prague City Philharmonic Orchestra performed a symphonic poem recital recently.

The orchestra was conducted by…

A Persian translation of ‘Cervantes and the Material World,’ a book written in 2000 by UCLA Spanish professor, Carroll Bernard Johnson (1938-2007), a premier authority on novelist Miguel de…

A solo painting exhibition titled ‘Gilan in the eyes of Chiba Miyamoto,’ by the Japanese artist will open on March 3 in Anzali Free Zone of Gilan.

Koucheh-Bagh Art Gallery in Gourabjir…

An English translation of a selection of Persian poetry by contemporary poets in Iran is set to come out in the Indian market on March 1.

‘Rules of the Game’ (in Italian: ‘ Il gioco delle parti), one of the major plays by Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), recipient of 1934…

The directors of all five films nominated for the foreign-language Oscar issued a joint statement on Friday denouncing the rise of fanaticism and nationalism in the US and beyond, and criticized…

A calligraphy exhibition titled ‘Everlasting Magic’ at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran, features 120 works by calligraphers from Qazvin Province, which is known as Iran’s hub of calligraphy.

Sixteen watercolor masters have presented 200 paintings at an exhibition hosted by Saba Cultural Artistic Institute, affiliated to Iranian Academy of Arts in Tehran.

The exhibit opened on…