Art And Culture

The famous story of a girl with glass slippers “Cinderella” is to be adapted for the Fourth Wall Theater in Tehran from July 23.

Directed by actor and theater director Saeed Dakh, the…

The Semaine de la Critique, an independent section within the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, has announced the lineup for its upcoming edition slated for August 3-10.

Concert theater “10 Years of Solitude,” written and directed by actor, singer and guitarist Ashkan Khatibi, will go on stage at Vahdat Hall in Tehran July 23-24.

Leila Hatami and Spanish actress Elena Martinez are playing in Ali-Reza Raisian’s latest movie “A Lonely Man” set in the city of Marbella and Malaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia,…

A group painting exhibition on the theme of imaginary friends opened on Friday at Farda Art Gallery in Tehran and will run until July 19.

“My Imaginary Friend” features more than 200…

An exhibition of paintings of contemporary artists is to open at Theertha Red Dot Gallery in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, on July 15.  Titled “Juncture,” it will display works by seven…

US photographer Brian McCarty wants people to see horrors of war, but through the eyes of children.

McCarty’s most recent work was set in Mosul where thousands of civilians were caught…

Niavaran Cultural Center will host a duet by drummer and composer Homayoun Nassiri, leader of Darkoob Band, in collaboration with composer and tar player Payam Jahanmani.

The concert is…

Roudaki Hall is going to host concerts by 12 setar players.

“Setar Nights” is slated for July 17-19. Each night four setar players will perform, according to the Persian website of…

Oral history of Golestan Palace, the oldest royal complex in Tehran, is being compiled by the research office of the palace, a UNESCO world heritage center.

So far, eight people, who…

Young virtuoso Ali Salehipour is to stage two violin recitals in Shiraz on June 14-15.

 Salehipour will play pieces composed by German composer and musician of the Baroque period…

Iranian Artists Forum is to host traditional needlework of the late artist Mahtab Norouzi, a veteran of Baluchi handicraft, July 13-18.

An adaptation of the novel “Anne of Green Gables” written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery is to be staged at Molavi Theater Hall in Tehran on July 16. The novel was originally…

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its foundation, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Tehran will hold a special program in mid-August at Niavaran Cultural Center in Tehran to pay tribute to…

Selected cinemas are showing the film “The Last One Who Saw Mr. K.A.” directed by Ali Delgosha and produced by Amir Shahab Razavian. A few months after the suspicious death of the aloof and…

Social drama “Tradition of Killing Lovers,” a 2003 production written and directed by Khosrow Masoumi is to have a single screening plus a review session in the presence of the director and two…

Niavaran Cultural Center in north Tehran will host two piano concerts featuring legendary pop compositions by renowned composer and pianist Anoushirvan Rouhani, 78.

Rouhani’s “Pop…

The open-air museum is a rare place in north Tehran where visitors can take refuge from the daily hustle and bustle in the Tajrish neighborhood and see small replicas of famous monuments in Iran…

From primitive clay whistles and flutes to intricate instruments that seem to have come from faraway lands, Tehran Museum of Music has a whole bunch of stuff that can make noise.

Old and…

The 31st International Film Festival for Children and Youth is slated for August 30-September 5 in Isfahan.

The play “Summerless” written and directed by Amir Reza Koohestani is competing at the Avignon Theater Festival in southeast France, July 6-24.

It tells the story of a painter, a…

Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired an artwork of Farhad Ahrarnia for its permanent collection.  Named “The Caterpillar’s Endless Sigh,” it is a work of khatam (a Persian…

Short films “Whole to Part” directed by Vahid Hosseini-Nami and “The Postman” by Vahid Keshavarz have made it to the official selection of Italy’s Lucania Film Festival.

The LFF is an…

Celebrated classical and Azeri folk singer and composer Davood Azad will hold a concert on July 21 at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.

Azad will present a repertoire of his old and new songs…

Morteza Atash-Zamzam is in the process of making a feature film on the desiccation of Zayandehroud, the largest river in Iran’s central plateau.

Zayandehroud originates in the mountains…