Being screened live at the Athens Concert Hall from London’s Bridge Theater at 8 p.m. on Thursday, “Straight Line Crazy” stars Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger and Alana Maria.
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After successful takes on “Of Mice and Men” and “The Red Lanterns,” director Vasilis Bisbikis tackles the great Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky and sets the action in the modern-day Greek capital.
The Athens English Comedy Club in Athens presents New York-based comedian Liz Miele for the first time in Greece, in which she explores trying to date again, what it means to be an older sibling and how she is handling life as it comes her way in a special titled “Murder Sheets” (suitable for people aged 16+).
Lost in the noise about the diplomas of actors, musicians and the like supposedly being “downgraded” to high-school level (a designation which applied only if they sought public sector jobs unrelated to their studies) and the subsequent compromise formula found after a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is the fact that university-level programs in various arts already exist.
The Greek Theater of Geneva has been actively promoting the Greek letters and culture in Switzerland for the past three decades.
The entire faculty of the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece resigned on Wednesday, after the deadline they had given to the government for the amendment of a presidential decree which equates the diplomas of drama school graduates with high school diplomas.
All the plays put on by the National Theatre that are scheduled for Wednesday, 8 February, are canceled due to a strike called by the Greek Actors Association.
Actors and theater workers have called a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday in protest at a draft government bill on pay in the sector.
There are opera stars, and then there is Maria Callas.
One of the predominant trends in this already successful theater season is the appeal of Greek plays.
The Greek National Theater presents Henrik Ibsen’s controversial “Ghosts,” a drama that shatters the edifice of the sacrosanct family.
Widely acclaimed American actor John Malkovich and Lithuania’s award-winning Ingeborga Dapkunaite are coming to the Onassis Cultural Center with French dramatist and writer Bernard-Marie Koltes’ play “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields.”
A naked man mounts a bull. A bull gives birth to a naked woman. A woman, ensconced in a sort of translucent vulva costume, gives birth to a silicone baby.
Spectators travel on a bus around the northern port city of Thessaloniki during a performance of “Luna,” a new interactive play directed by Damianos Konstantinidis that is based on Henriette-Rika Benveniste’s award-winning book of the same title.
Legendary Greek actress Irene Pappas, who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 96, the Culture Ministry announced.
Organized by the City of Athens, the annual Kolonos Fetsival, hosted at the open-air theater on the historic district’s Hill of Hippio Kolonos, from September 8-25.
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