Restoring the long-neglected National Theater of Rhodes is one of the top priorities in the capital of the southeastern Aegean island.
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The brand-extension musical is a tough genre to game, demanding something new for newcomers yet fidelity for fans. (“Hairspray” succeeded; “Frozen” did not.) “Back to the Future: The Musical,” based on the first of the time-travel films in the billion-dollar franchise, faces an additional hurdle: It hinges on a star performance that would seem to be irreproducible onstage.
From 15 to 30 July two large-scale theatrical productions of Aeschylus’ works − one Greek and one international − by leading artists, a concert with distinguished musical ensembles as well as an academic symposium on Aeschylus and the concepts governing this special stage genre, will create an informal but explosive debate on ancient drama, which always remains alive and crucial to contemporary issues of justice, humanism and politics.
A theater production for English speakers, “Women of Passion, Women of Greece,” returns to the Treno sto Rouf Theater in Athens for a run of 10 Saturday shows.
The five lead actresses in this year’s “Medea” performance directed by Frank Castorf at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus as part of the Athens Festival: (l-r) Evdokia Roumelioti, Maria Nafpliotou, Sofia Kokkali, Angeliki Papoulia and Stefania Goulioti.
The Theater of Lycabettus, located on a hill that overlooks the capital, is slated to reopen this summer after undergoing upgrades, Attica Regional Governor Giorgos Patoulis has told Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA).
Tickets are selling out fast for the Greek premiere of Tony Kushner’s play “A Bright Room Called Day” by the National Theater, and especially for those performances featuring English surtitles.
The Greek National Theater’s board threatened legal action against a group of squatters who took over its Rex venue in downtown Athens as part of a wider protest by artists over their educational qualifications, if they do not clear the area by March 27.
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.
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.
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