Art And Culture

The play ‘Fear and Misery of the Third Reich,’ written by the famous German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and directed by Iranian Hesameddin Sharifi is on stage at Drama Theater in Tehran…

Iran’s National Orchestra has started rehearsing for the 32nd edition of the Fajr International Music festival, the nation’s most prestigious music event to be held in Tehran from January 11-20,…

The 14th edition of Academic and Professional International Book Fair opened on Sunday at the Central Library of Tehran University.

The event, organized by the Cultural Association of…

Iran’s cultural heritage will come under online monitoring via satellite by the end of the next fiscal year in March 2018, said Mohammad Hassan Talebian, cultural heritage deputy at Iran’s…

On the occasion of the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on December 17 and ‘Yalda Night’ which marks the longest night of the year on December 20, Iran Ketabshahr (city of books)…

The Nima National Award ceremony will be held in the port city of Nowshahr, in Mazandaran Province on January 5, on the death anniversary of Nima Youshij (1895-1960), founder of ‘New Poetry.’

Veteran actor, writer and theater director Jafar Vali, passed away on Saturday, December 17, in Tehran Clinic Hospital. He was 83.

‘A Night with Rumi,’ a music performance has been organized for Sunday, December 18, at Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran.

The 10th National Biennale of Persian Painting opened Saturday, December 17, at Tehran’s Negarestan Museum Garden.

A total of 195 works are participating in the competition section, which…

Acclaimed cartoonist and graphic designer Kambiz Derambakhsh has used ink on paper for his latest exhibition.

Titled ‘Endless Stories’ it is underway at Seyhoun Art Gallery, located at No.…

The closing ceremony of the 2nd International Music Festival Muhammad, the Prophet of Kindness, was held at Bahman Cultural Center in southern Tehran on December 15.

In his latest play, Iranian theater director and actor Ramin Sayardashti, is inspired by the dark, eccentric and quirky fantasies of American film director Tim Burton.

An Iranian engineer who works in the design field has won the Designer of the Year award in Singapore.

Hussein Rezai, 60, is the Tehran-born founder and director of Web Structures, an…

The Iranian choir Avaye Mahan will perform a repertoire of nostalgic musical pieces of the 1950s to 1970s by famous American and European singers at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on January 1, 2017.

A portrait of the writer Oscar Wilde, which had to be sold off after he went bankrupt, is to return from America for the first time in nearly a century.

It will be displayed at Tate Britain…

Veteran master of Nasta’liq calligraphy Mohammad Salahshour, recipient of the first degree art certificate from the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, has organized an exhibition ‘Word of Love…

Nominations for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced on Monday, December 12, and Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed film ‘The Salesman’ is among the five nominees in the Best Motion Picture…

Blackbird, a play written in 2005 by Scottish playwright David Harrower, opened on Monday, December 12, at Charsou Hall of Tehran City Theater.

The play was inspired by the crimes of former…

An Iranian archaeologist has spent years across the country’s hills and desert plains to uncover ancient rock art that could be among the oldest in the world.

Now he hopes that renewed ties…

Goharan (gems) artworks auction will put on sale a total of 100 works of prominent Iranian artists on Friday, December 16, at Niavaran Complex in northern Tehran.

The proceeds will be used…

The first international photography competition of ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage in Context’ has called for submissions.

Canadian food writer Naomi Duguid explores the culinary region of Persia in her new cookbook ‘Taste of Persia’, released in September, escorting readers through villages, markets and into people’s…

Iranian theater director will stage the play ‘Iceland’ written by the Canadian writer Nicolas Billon next week at Tehran’s Baran Theater.

The play has been translated by Zahra Javaheri and…

Kavian music ensemble will perform a 3-piece concert titled ‘Arash the Archer’ on December 15 at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

Digital Games Research Center (DIREC), affiliated to Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation, has recently released a fact sheet on the industry and market of digital games in Iran.