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Sunday, April 21, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Mr. State Secretary Bogdan Aurescu will hold a conference on National interest and the actuality of sovereignty. Romania's foreign policy and the paradigm of the winner. Ticket price: 16 lei. Is the concept of national interest still current in a world which is profoundly globalized and acutely interdependent? What is national interest? Is the state sovereignty still necessary and, if so, how does it look like nowadays? What is national interest for Romania in terms of foreign policy? What are the means by which Romania's national interest, from the point of view of foreign policy, can be done better, more efficiently? Can we use the lessons learned so far from major foreign policy files that Romania has done well? Can we talk about - or build - a "paradigm of the winner" in Romania's foreign policy? The conference on National interest and the actuality of sovereignty. Romania's foreign policy and the paradigm of the winner will try to answer, with arguments, these questions. Bogdan Aurescu

Sunday, April 7, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose will hold a conference on The 21st Century Psychiatry, between Psychoanalysis and Cybernetics. Ticket price: 16 lei. From its beginnings, psychoanalysis has helped psychiatrists, and not only them, to discover the evil in man and to avoid, by using psychotherapy, its turning into disease and chaos. But no other century since the creation of the World was shaken by larger social cataclysms, caused by the evil spirit and the power fantasies of men, than the 21st century. Therefore, it can be rightly said that everyone who lived in the 21st century can be considered a survivor. The twentieth century was also the century of the limitless technological explosion and the birth of information technologies that have opened up a new world - one that includes in a global network everyone on the planet, who can communicate without boundaries - the Worldwide Web, the famous www. Under the effect of this network, in just two decades, culture, economy, education, medicine, and pathology have changed dramatically, the individual virtualizing its identity until near dissolution. If Freud discovered that in each of us functions a world of fantasy in completion to reality, the Internet transformed the real world into a deeply virtualized world, haunted by collective fantasies which travel at the speed of thought, and psychiatry can only wonder, as the apostle Peter did two millennia ago, "Quo vadis?" Prof. Dr. Florin Tudose 

After the successful tour with The Exiles from 3 years ago, which made him famous in Romania too, the director Alexander Morfov returns to Bucharest with another theatrical event, the multi-awarded show Don Juan after Moliere, presented by the National Theatre "Ivan Vazov" from Sofia. Don Juan will be performed on the NTB's great stage, in a single performance, Sunday, April 7, 2013, at 19:00. More details     

It is not a joke! Ion Caramitru, Horațiu Mălăele and Adrian Naidin will meet again on April 1, for the second time this year, on the National Theatre's stage for a show that you will remember forever. Seductive, with irresistible humour and the profundity that made them legends, the two dialogue partners look for each other, seek to understand and test one another, in a show applauded by critics and the public alike. It was last season's revelation, a sell-out performance every time. Between the two, Adrian Naidin, the musical moderator of this enchanting show, makes wonders with his cello and an exceptional voice. His voice is tailored from a traditional authentic lode, a timbre specific to Romanian ballads of the kind that take your breath away.

UNITER launches the twelfth edition of the annual National Campaign "Artists for Artists", the 2013 edition, a unique event based on the category of beneficiaries that it addresses. Held around March 27 - the International Day of Theatre, the campaign became for UNITER, for the past 11 editions, not only a celebration of the impressive theatrical universe, but also, the praise of artists who rebuilt year by year, along their lifetime, the magic of theatre. Monday, March 25, at 19:00, the Great Hall Prices: 70 lei, 60 lei, 50 lei, 20 lei Organizers: UNITER - Romanian Association of Theatre Artists The Romanian ITI Centre The National Theatre Bucharest The Centre for Research and Theatre Creation "Ion Sava" The Town Hall of the Municipality of Bucharest ArCuB - the Centre for Cultural Projects of the Town Hall of the Municipality of Bucharest More details     Translated by: Izabella Feher

Sunday, March 24, at 11.00, at the NTB's Media Room, Dr. Ilinca Dumitrescu will hold a conference on Classics of Romanian Music - Ion Dumitrescu Centenary (1913 - 1996). Ticket price: 16 lei.    Composer and conductor Ion Dumitrescu at the National Theatre from Bucharest (1940 - 1947) Lectures Dr. Ilinca Dumitrescu, pianist, soloist, musicologist Live musical moment - pieces by Ion Dumitrescu Participates Dr. Vasile Macovei - bassoonist

Sunday, March 10, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Acad. Maya Simionescu will hold a conference with the theme A journey in the Land of Science and the World of Cells. Ticket price: 16 lei. I invite you to get away from everyday life for a while and to travel together to the Land of Science, in which the curious researchers are trying to understand the world around and within us, but also to the World of Cells, a world of small proportions, which you cannot see with the naked eye, but which is as complex and great as the universe. I invite you on a journey into our own universe, populated by 10 -50 trillion cells that work, cooperate, keep us alive and make us what we are. I invite you to be your tour guide in a trip inside a cell, where the miracle of life lies hidden. We chose the itinerary, we only need to pack our bags, to take a map and to go in this fascinating journey.

A ceremonious evening at the National Theatre: Ion Caramitru and Horaţiu Mălăele open the new season of Meetings at the NTB (with the participation of the cellist Adrian Naidin). The same but still different every time, the actors Ion Caramitru and Horaţiu Mălăele continue their dialogues on the Great Stage of the National Theatre from Bucharest,  in an extraordinary edition of the show  "Caramitru-Mălăele, spinning a yarn". This show will reopen the new season of meetings with theatre lovers from the capital city. Seductive, with irresistible humour and the profundity that made them legends, the two dialogue partners look for each other, seek to understand and test one another, in a show applauded by critics and the public alike. It was last season's revelation, a sell-out performance every time. Details    

Sunday, February 24, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Eugen Istodor will hold a conference on Lipscani - Travel & Party Guide. Ticket price: 16 lei. The world of conquests, legends and the horrific world of disaster. Three worlds in one: Lipscani, the historic centre, Bucharest's old centre. Come with me to my Lipscani! I will tell you about it as I know it best. I wrote the only book about the human part of Lipscani. Today, not even the disasters of the past that have terrified Lipscani, do not hold a great significance; they can only be gentle reprimands and pale rummages of our consciousness. But they talk about the issue and irresponsibility of those who have conquered the nowadays Lipscani with beaneries and music. Come and hear what brings luck in Lipscani. Ascensions and decays, pride and bankruptcy standing wall to wall and so they grew together: the Royal Court and the shops from Lipscani. Traces of that world still exist. We can revive this bustle for worldliness by listening to the history of Lipscani and the royalty.

Sunday, February 10, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Dan Lungu will hold a conference on the theme About the "communist biddies' " nostalgia and other demons. Ticket price: 16 lei. "I do not know if I'm a communist biddy! is my best book, but it certainly had the largest impact from everything I wrote. At no moment did I imagine the fate these lines would have, writing meticulously in my small room from rue Ribera, at the Romanian Greek-Catholic Mission in Paris, where I wrote most of the book. I don't want to talk at this conference about the unpredictable literary success of the novel. Rather, I would tell you about how I began to understand the past, exploring "the communist biddies'" nostalgia and its roots, as well as how working on this book and the European journey undertaken to write it have changed my way of thinking and my literary career. Finally, I would like to relate how men and women, Romanian or foreign, reacted when they bumped into my "communist biddy", as shown by the hundreds of messages received in the last years or the talks with them. It is certain that the "communist biddies'" nostalgia hit much farther than it seems at first glance. How far? Come to NTB and we'll talk! "