An adaptation of “Richard III Will Not Take Place” written by Romanian Playwright Matei Vişniec is on stage at Charsou Hall in City Theater. The play directed by Rouhollah Jafari is about…
Art And Culture
A loose adaptation of the 1942 novel “The Silence of the Sea” written by French writer and illustrator Jean Bruller is on stage at Iranshahr Theater.
The text has been…
The 11th annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco will be held in late September.
The festival shows independent feature and short films made by or about Iranians around the world,…
A photo exhibition about children with epidermolysis bullosa, known as butterfly children, opened on Friday at Nami Gallery in Tehran.
Photographer and social worker at Iran EB Patients…
Organized jointly by the Iran National Commission for UNESCO and Iranian Youth Cinema Society, the first Hyrcanian Forests Film and Photo Festival will be held in early autumn in Tehran.
The feature film “Temporary License” directed by actor, director and screen writer Afshin Hashemi has been nominated in six categories at the 6th Love International Film Festival in Beverly…
Playwright and theater director Jalal Tehrani is to restage his play “The Tank” on July 23 at Maktab Cultural Institute in Tehran.
According to the public relations office of the…
Charchoub Center for Art and Culture will host a flamenco performance on July 24 featuring the flamenco duet Duende.
Reza Alinavaz performs cante and toque (singing and playing guitar).…
Niavaran Cultural Center in north Tehran will present four nights of jazz performance on July 28-31.
“Jazz Nights” is organized by the cultural institute SaazBuzz, an independent…
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a pottery workshop dating back 4,500 years. It is a rare discovery providing a glimpse into daily life from millenia ago.
Accomplished painter, sculptor and art scholar Parviz Tanavoli is showing his illustrious “Heech” sculptures. Forty of his art students are also showing their works alongside in an exhibition at…
Traditional vocalist and composer Vahid Taj, 34, will sing in Isfahan with his newly established orchestra.
The orchestra is called “Hamnavazan-e Taj” which will be conducted by tar…
Georges Franju’s lyrical 1962 black-and-white classic “Eyes Without a Face” will have one screening at Raj Gallery on Thursday.
Set in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive…
Polaris Music Group, an all-women Iranian pop band is to hold four concerts at Vahdat Hall in Tehran.
In the women-only event, the band will perform pieces in five languages: Persian,…
The short film “Like a Good Kid” by Arian Vazir-Daftari is to be screened at the 29th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil, August 22-September 2. It is the story of 24-year-old…
The tragicomedy “Machiavelli: The Art of Terror” written by Robert Cohen is to be read on stage at the Neauphle-le-Château Mansion in Tehran on July 21.
Based on the disputed political…
Selected cinemas are showing “Exhale” directed by Arash Sanjabi.
It narrates the story of Kasra, a 35-year-old man living in Tehran, who wins a scholarship from an Italian university.…
Qolhak Cineplex is to have one screening of the American science fiction monster film “Rampage” directed by Brad Peyton on July 21.
The iconic Azadi Tower in southwest Tehran will be the screen for a projection mapping created by French composer, conductor, multimedia artist and researcher Stéphane de…
The Taj Mahal in Agra could be closed unless the Indian government steps in and saves the neglected landmark, says India’s Supreme Court. “Either we shut down the Taj or demolish it or you…
Chitgar Lake in west Tehran is going to host a Silk Road Festival, a multifunctional event planned to promote cultural and commercial exchange between nations along the legendary Silk Route. The…
Pop singer, songwriter and composer Reza Sadeqi will perform twice on July 24 in the northern city of Sowme’eh Sara, Gilan.
Sadeqi’s concert is scheduled at Farabi Hall, located on the…
A musical adaptation of the famous novella “The Little Prince” written by French author Antoine de Saint Exupery is on stage for children and young adults at Honar Theater Hall in Tehran.
Radin Art Gallery in Mashhad is exhibiting the brightly hued abstract paintings of American artist Thomas Berding under the title of “The Chronic Disassembly Roadshow”.
A painting by the contemporary painter Ahmad Vakili has been purchased by the American Ford Motor Co.
Tara Gallery in Los Angeles has sold the 80cm by 100cm acrylic painting known as “…
