BUCHAREST- The international theatre festival in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, one of the most important in Europe, opened Friday for a ten-day dive into Japanese and European theatre. "Japan...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Claire de Oliveira- A black Jesus, buried up to his waist in a pile of tires, shirtless and arms outstretched, was burned alive Friday by Brazilian drug traffickers in a very...

OTTAWA- Three plays by Sophocles will go on in Canada but without the casting of a French rock star convicted of killing his girlfriend, director Wajdi Mouawad said Monday following a public outcry....

JENIN, Saif Dahlah- Masked gunmen shot dead a well-known Jewish-Arab actor and director on Monday in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian police and medics said. The killing of...

MOSCOW- Work is nearly done on a long overdue renovation of Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theatre, officials said on Tuesday as the restored historic ceiling and gilded boxes were unveiled to the media....

LONDON- Each of William Shakespeare's 38 plays will be performed in a different language, including Arabic, Spanish and Urdu, during a a theatre season in Britain to mark the London 2012 Olympic...

KABUL, Emmanuel Duparcq- Two Afghan policemen stand paralysed by fear in front of a plastic cup. But this is not some farcical scene from the battle against the Taliban -- it is a sketch from a new...

GOYA, Indalecio Alvarez- The latest controversy to roil Argentina has nothing to do with the soaring inflation rate or next year's presidential election. Tongues here are clucking instead over the...

VIENNA- A performance of Jean Racine's 1677 play "Phaedra" at Vienna's prestigious Burgtheater was upstaged by real-life drama late Friday, when a theatre-goer gave birth in the foyer, a newspaper...