Prilep Theatre celebrates its 68th anniversary
Prilep-based National Theatre Vojdan Cernodrinski is to celebrate Monday evening its 68th anniversary with performance of comedy From Bad to Worse (‘Od kol na kol’) directed by Kole Angelovski. The National Theatre Vojdan Cernodrinski staged its first play Kir Janja by Jovan Sterija Popovic, directed by Ace Mihajlovski in 1950, thus marking the foundation of a very productive and successful institution of culture. More than 1.6 million theatregoers have seen 370 premieres and 7,500 plays since then. Prilep Theatre’s greatest achie…
New music project filmed on the theater scene in the Veles theater
After nearly two years abstinence from the media, the "Oriental Band" is coming back with something new and truly original. The band, festively, surprised the admirers of the beautiful song, promoting a project that contains remakes of Macedonian evergreens and several famous foreign hits. - The whole project was recorded in live. Our wish to live and sing a few beautiful songs on a theater scene came true and we will immodestly say that it was a great product. We achieved it. We worked with a lot of great desire and love…
Turkish musical “Legend of the Bird Simurg” to be performed in Skopje
The musical "Legend of the Bird Simurg" featuring 45 artists - members of the choir, the orchestra and the dance group at the TRT –Turkey’s State Radio Television, will be performed in Skopje-based Army Hall on Monday. The show is part of the Balkan tour, which will be performed in Thessaloniki, Tirana, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb, Bucharest and Sofia. The Balkan tour is organised under the auspices of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey and is supported by the Government of Turkey, competent ministries, state television…
Seven plays at Skupi international theatre festival
The 11. international theatre festival Skupi, held under motto "For a Healthy Spirit", will include seven plays from the same number of countries. The festival opens with play "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Qendrim Rijani, and produced by "Andon Zako Cajupi" theatre from Korce, Albania, in Skopje-based Suli An on Thursday. The festival also includes plays from Serbia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Russia, Israel and Iran. "We will try to maintain the tradition and prom…
10th International Festival of Mime and Physical Theater in Skopje
The 10th International Festival of Mime and Physical Theater 'Panphys', taking place on October 7-10 in Skopje, features six plays from France, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and two from Serbia. This year's jubilee edition will be graced with pantomime performances of different aesthetics. Some of the performers have already been guests of the Panphys festival, including France's Gerasim Dishliev, who won the top prize at the 2009 edition. The festival closes next Tuesday with an awards ceremony where the best play pe…
Macedonian National Theatre to perform at festivals in Slovakia and Belarus
The Macedonian National Theater (MNT) featuring the play "Private Confessions" directed by Nina Nikolic, written by Ingmar Bergman and adapted by Tamara Barackov will perform at the two prestigious international theater festivals in Slovakia and Belarus. MNT will perform the play on Sunday at the Central European Theatre Festival in Kosice, Slovakia, which is held during first week of September whereat independent theatre companies from Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and other countries meet in Kosice for this important ann…
15th Actor of Europe International Theater Festival opens in Resen
World-renowned French stage actor Marcel Bozonnet has been named Actor of Europe - the coveted recognition of the Actor of Europe International Theater Festival, whose 15th edition opens on July 6 in Resen. The opening ceremony will feature a documentary about Bozonnet, which is expected to be attended by French Ambassador Christian Timonier and Georges Banu, a professor at the Sorbonne and president the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT). To mark the 15th anniversary of the festival, Rector of the University for …
Skopje-based Turkish Theater performs at INFANT Novi Sad
Turkish Theater will perform Thursday Othello play directed by Dejan Projkovski within the 44th International Festival of Alternative and New Theater INFANT taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia. The cast includes Dzenap Samet (Othello), Suzan Akbelge (Desdemona), Selpin Kerim (Iago), Osman Ali (Cassio), Zubeyde Ali (Emilia) and Neat Ali (Roderigo). Olga Pango is the choreogrpaher, Tatjana Hristoska Blazevska is the stage designer and the music is created by Goran Trajkovski.
5th Bitola Shakespeare Festival begins
Shakespeare Collage - stage and music performance, produced by National Theatre Bitola, will have the honor Wednesday evening to open the 5th Bitola Shakespeare Festival, which this year brings together 12 theater companies from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Slovakia, US and Macedonia. The festival kicks off the activities within the cultural summer in Bitola 'Bitfest 2017'. This year the festival offers performances of Shakespeare's masterpieces by Turkish National Theatre - Othello; Dramatic Theatre “Ivan …
Skopje Summer Festival 2017 kicks off
The 38th edition of Skopje Summer Festival 2017 will kick off Wednesday evening with a concert of the Turkish musician living and working in the US, Omar Faruk Tekbilek at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet. Twenty concerts, eight performances, three book promotions and 10 film screenings in the cafe-cinema in Skopje Old Bazaar’s Suli An. The programme of Skopje Summer Festival will include 18 locations and spaces in Skopje, such as theatres, art galleries, museums, Skopje Old Bazaar, Suli An and the central city areas. Directora…
Ana Stojanoska Wins 54th Racin Award
The 2017 Racin Award was given to Ana Stojanoska, for her novel "Me, Lin and Aftewards". For the first time ever, an honorary Racin Award was given posthumously to Croatian writer Predrag Matvejevic. Veles Mayor Slavco Cadiev and Vladimir Jankovski, who headed the jury, gave the golden wreath to the award winning writer, along with the 1.000 EUR prize. "This recognition is like a constellation of stars for me. It tells me that all the words I have played with for over a decade have found their place in the Macedonia…
No Man’s Land premiere opens international theater festival MNT Fest
The premiere of ‘No Man’s Land’, directed by Aleksandar Morfov will have the honor Saturday (3 June) to open the fourth international theater festival ‘MNT Fest’ organized by the Macedonian National Theater (MNT). The festival, which runs by 13 June, offers inter alis the performances of ‘Macbeth’ – guests from China; ‘Don Juan’ – Sofia-based National Theater ‘Ivan Vazov’; and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s ‘Ivanov’ – Belgrade-based National Theater, featuring Macedonian prominent actor Nikola Ristanovski, MNT Director Dejan Projkovski tol…
Bitola's national theater to perform in St. Petersburg
The Bitola National Theater is in Saint Petersburg, with its musical performance "Shakespeare Forever" at the Vera Komisarzhevskaya theater. It is part of a marathon festival dedicated to Shakespeare. "We expect to perform before a full house. There is great interest both in our performance, as well as in the Foltin group which will perform with us, but also have a stand-alone concert. The performance includes many notable actors from Macedonia and Russia, but we must point out 89 year old acting legend Ivan Krasko"…
More than 100 Cultural Events to Take Place in Berovo
Over 100 events will be organized in Berovo starting from mid-March as part of the eastern Macedonian town being named the 2017 City of Culture . The Macedonian Ministry of Culture has singled out 2 million denars to fund the manifestation, which offers plays, concerts, folklore concerts, exhibits, book promotions, performances given by theater companies and ensembles from Macedonia and abroad, concerts by soloists of the opera houses in Skopje and Sofia, etc. The cultural offer of the event is expected to contribute to boosting t…
Bitola National Theater marks 72nd anniversary
The Bitola National Theater is one of the country’s leading institutions of culture playing a significant role in the cultural history of Macedonia, Minister of Culture Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska said Monday at an event marking the 72nd anniversary of the institution. The Bitola National Theater, she added, has managed to create a unique theater expression, rich and versatile theater program with irrefutable aesthetics. “Over the years, Bitola has assumed the role of a global stage, a host of memorable theater events and a place w…
Macedonian National Theater Performs 'Solaris' Rendition at Wiener Festwochen in Vienna
Macedonian National Theater (MNT) performs its rendition of Solaris at the Wiener Festwochen festival in Vienna on Friday evening. This theatrical project has been co-produced by the Vienna festival, and directed by internationally renowned Ukrainian director Andriy Zholdak. This is the second time MNT has cooperated with Zholdak, following their Electra in 2014. This time, the theme is Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi novel, which is being portrayed in Zholdak's traditional theatrical style. The play tells of vain attempts to communicat…
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