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From July 19th to September 3rd, 2023, the NTB Box Office will be closed! From September 4th, 2023, the normal opening hours will be resumed! During this period, you can purchase tickets exclusively online! The NTB 2023 - 2024 season will start on September 16th, 2023! Until this date, all the performances taking place in the NTB halls are privately organized and hosted by the National Theatre of Bucharest! From July 20, 2023, at 10.00 a.m., you can buy tickets online for the NTB performances scheduled from September 17th to October 22nd, 2023! Thank you for your understanding!   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

  NTB reaches three cities in the Republic of Moldova with "ActOrchestra", as part of the "Tour of Romanian Actors" The Tour of Romanian Actors brings to three cities in the Republic of Moldova one of the most successful shows of the National Theatre "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest, "ActOrchestra", directed by Horia Suru. This tour of the National Theatre of Bucharest in Cahul, Chisinau and Balti is supported by the Department for Relations with the Republic of Moldova (DRRM) and brings this theatrical-musical production to Moldovan audiences on June 28, June 30 and July 2, 2023. The project is entirely funded by DRRM, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova, and the admission is free. ActOrchestra is a humorous story with three characters on the unpredictable road to supremacy on stage, a concert translated into a cheerful, sonorous and rhythmic story. The three actors who will be present in the three cities of the tour are Petre Ancuta, Florin Calbajos and Emilian Marnea. The performances are scheduled as follows: June 28, 2023, 5:00 pm, at the "B. P. Hasdeu" National Theatre in Cahul; June 30, 2023, 7:00 pm, at the Nameless Theatre in Chisinau; July 2, 2023, 6:00 pm, at the "Vasile Alecsandri" National Theatre in Balti. The first performance of the tour was "Extra", an exceptional one-woman-show with Tania Popa (born in the Republic of Moldova, in Causeni), performed on April 28 at the Nameless Theatre in Chisinau with a full house. DRRM promotes Romanian values across the Prut and supports, through this project, the meeting of the actors of the National Theatre "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest with the audience from several localities of the Republic of Moldova, in order to facilitate their access to Romanian culture and language.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

  Bucharest, June 27, 2023 The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest ended the current season with 18 premieres, several tours and international participations, and for this autumn it is preparing another five performances, with directors such as Silviu Purcarete, Tompa Gabor or Gelu Colceag. Among the premieres of the closed season are performances such as Exile (directed by Alexandra Badea), The Just Assassins (directed by Mihai Maniutiu), Histrionics (directed by Alexandru Dabija) or Rehearsal for a better world (directed by Radu Afrim). In a varied repertoire there are also comedies, dramatic plays sparkling with intelligent humor, a mixture of reality and fiction, and in this chapter the audience appreciated performances such as The Magistrate (directed by Dan Tudor), The Clean House (directed by Felix Alexa), The Journey (directed by Dan Puric), Perplex (directed by Stefan Iordanescu) or Offending the Audience (directed by Andreea Ciocarlan, a 9G project at TNB). Texts by Romanian authors have been successfully staged this year at TNB. Gallants of the Old Court by Mateiu Caragiale (directed by Dragos Galgotiu), The Word Progress On My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True by Matei Visniec (directed by Botond Nagy) and The Silent Escape by Lena Constante (directed by and performed by Oana Pellea) are three titles that have already been very well received, both by the public and the critics. This year, on March 27, World Theatre Day, the NTB Museum inaugurated the exhibition Queen Mary at the Theatre, part of the project "Innovative exhibition with restored cultural goods from the NTB Museum collection", funded by EEA Grants 2014-2021 under the RO-CULTURE Program. Thirty-eight cultural goods from the NTB Museum collection were restored, including a dress that belonged to Queen Maria of Romania. In the 2022 - 2023 season, 16 new exhibitions were opened in the theatre's foyers as part of the NTB Parateatral-Visual Arts program and the broadcasting of the National Theatre of Bucharest's own production series Podcasts began, broadcast in video format and on TNB-TV. In the 2022 - 2023 season, 16 new exhibitions were opened in the theatre's foyers as part of the TNB Parateatral-Visual Arts program and the broadcasting of the own production series of the Podcasts of the National Theatre from Bucharest began, broadcast in video format and on TNB-TV. Three workshops were held this season by the Centre for Theatre Research and Creation "Ion Sava" (CCCT), one on dramatic writing, coordinated by screenwriter Mimi Branescu, one on acting, held by director Alexander Hausvater (who also staged the musical "Machinal. The Musical" at the Studio Hall) and one on "New media in the context of performing arts, held by visual artist Andrei Cozlac. Also during this period, a CCCT podcast was launched, the first guest being playwright Matei Visniec. The tnb.edu program has brought this season collaborations in both the educational and social areas. The performance A different Caragiale aimed to bring young people closer to the drama of Nenea Iancu, while Komorebi. The light filtering through the trees aimed to raise awareness of appearances among the current generation. In a partnership with the Ministry of Culture, with the support of the Ministry of Education and the National Anti-Drug Agency, the performance This is Your Youth was a drug awareness campaign. In the year in which the NTB building celebrates its 50th anniversary, more than 5,000 people took part in the Guided Tours of the Theatre, with no less than 1,500 such tours having been conducted since December 2013. The 9th edition (January - March 2023) of the Romanian Theatre Tour to Bucharest, Iasi and Chisinau, as well as the 7th edition of the "Reunion of Romanian National Theatres" brought to the capital of the Republic of Moldova several performances from the NTB repertoire: "Carnival Stuff", " The Country House", "Helver's Night", "Titanic Waltz" and "The Just Assassins". Also in terms of touring, in May this year, NTB presented in Hungary, at the Moricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyiregyhaza, the performance "Histrionics" by Thomas Bernhard, at the invitation of the International Festival "Theatre Olympics". The same show was successfully performed by the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest at the opening of the 30th edition of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS 2023). From September, the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest aims to start a new season with premieres and top directors. Among the shows that TNB is currently announcing are: The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Gelu Colceag, scenography Liliana Cenean and Stefan Caragiu, Tango by Slawomir Mrozek, directed by Tompa Gabor, set design Andrei Both, costumes Angela Balogh, Nora by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Chris Simion-Mercurian, scenography Maria Miu (in partnership with "Grivita 53" Association) and Gertrude by Radu F. Alexandru, directed by Silviu Purcarete, scenography Dragos Buhagiar. More details about the casts of these shows will be released at the beginning of next season, both on social media and on the institution's website, tnb.ro.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

From July 19th to September 3rd, 2023, the NTB Box Office will be closed! From September 4th, 2023, the normal opening hours will be resumed! During this period, you can purchase tickets exclusively online! The NTB 2023 - 2024 season will start on September 16th, 2023! Until this date, all the performances taking place in the NTB halls are privately organized and hosted by the National Theatre of Bucharest! From July 20, 2023, at 10.00 a.m., you can buy tickets online for the NTB performances scheduled from September 17th to October 22nd, 2023! Thank you for your understanding!   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

After its premiere at the "Theatre Olympics" International Festival in Hungary, where it was a unanimous success, "Histrionics", directed by Alexandru Dabija, will be presented on the first day of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS), on June 23, 2023, at the State Philharmonic. Histrionics, the play of one of the most important contemporary playwrights, the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, has been translated into a fascinating performance by director Alexandru Dabija and is a paradoxical hymn to the theatrical art, but also a caustic look at our petty and tragicomic lives. In the role of Bruscon, Marcel Iures gives life to a splendid buffoon in search of the absolute in arts. Actor Marcel Iures, who gives life to the character Bruscon, together with his other colleagues (Ana Ciontea, Alexandru Bindea, Alexandra Salceanu, Lucian Iftime, Afrodita Androne and Victoria Dicu), will once again meet an international audience, the performance of the I.L. Caragiale National Theatre from Bucharest being highly anticipated at the festival, where tickets sold out very quickly. The 2023 edition of the International Theatre Olympics Festival, one of this year's largest theatre events, was special both in terms of quality and impressive statistics: from April to July, 400 companies from 58 countries come to Hungary for the festival. The Sibiu International Theatre Festival is, as we know, the biggest theatre event in Romania and one of the biggest in the world. This year's festival is the largest Romanian season, with no less than 59 performances! FITS is in its 30th edition this year, Miracle, takes place from 23 June to July 2nd, 2023 and includes over 800 events and 5000 guests from 75 countries.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

The excellence of the Romanian theatre in the European Capital of Culture! The UNITER Awards Gala 2023 returns to Timisoara after six years and presents the nominated productions for the Best Performance of 2022. A thought that finally takes shape in the context of Timisoara - European Capital of Culture in 2023. Therefore, we are pleased to present to the Timisoara audience, from 7 to 10 June 2023, three of the best rated theatre performances of 2022, nominated for the UNITER Awards. The performances will be followed by Q&A sessions with the audience. The program of the best theatre productions of 2022, in Timisoara: June 7, 6 pm and 9 pm, Hall 2 of the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theatre Timisoara - Civic Park: "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles, directed by Declan Donnellan, set design Nick Ormerod, producer "Marin Sorescu" National Theatre, Craiova June 8, 7 pm and June 9, 4 pm, The Set Factory of the National Theatre, (9 Paul Morand Street, in the Freidorf Industrial Park), opened for the first time as a performance space, on this occasion: "Antonin Artaud. The Cenci", after Shelley and Stendhal, directed by Silviu Purcarete, set desing Dragos Buhagiar, producer "Vasile Alecsandri" Teatrul National, Iasi June 9 and June 10, 7 pm, Hall 2 of the National Theatre - Civic Park: "Seaside Stories" by Marius Chivu, Lavinica Mitu, Dan Alexe, Simona Gosu, Tudor Ganea, Nicoleta Dabija, direction, script, sound universe Radu Afrim, set design Theodor Cristian Niculae, producer Constanta State Theatre Details of the performances can be found on the website www.uniter.ro and on the website of our partner and host, the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theatre in Timisoara, https://www.tntm.ro/. The UNITER Awards Gala performance will take place at the Main Hall of the "Mihai Eminescu" National Theatre in Timisoara on Monday, June 12, 2023, at 8 pm. The event will be broadcast live on www.uniter.ro, www.tvr.ro, TVR Cultural and Radio Romania Cultural. Starting from 7 pm we will capture the arrival of the guests on the red carpet, which will be broadcast live on UNITER's YouTube account and on UNITER's Facebook page. *The UNITER Awards Gala is a Project funded by the National Cultural Program Timisoara - European Capital of Culture in 2023   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

The premiere participation of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest at the International Theatre Olympics Festival, which took place this year in Hungary, was a great success, both with the Hungarian audience and the critics. In the main hall of the Moricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza, actor Marcel Iures enchanted the audience, together with his other colleagues (Ana Ciontea, Alexandru Bindea, Alexandra Salceanu, Lucian Iftime, Afrodita Androne and Victoria Dicu), receiving a standing ovation at the end. The first reactions after the performance arrived quickly. One of Hungary's leading newspapers, Magyar Nemzet (Hungarian Nation), gave ample space to a review "beyond the theatre". About the actor Marcel Iures, journalists in the neighboring country say that he is "one of the best practitioners of his craft", "a sensitive artist who gave a fantastic performance with a strong stage presence". The other actors, "although receiving less attention, contribute to the success of the show with their gestures, facial expressions and unspoken opinions". "Histrionics which is a two-hour monologue about the irreplaceability of the arts, is full of anger, despair and disillusionment, but says: it's not worth living without theatre," the review by Anita Szaraz also says. Marcel Iures thanked the hosts of the Moricz Zsigmond Theatre in Nyíregyháza and the director Robert Kirjak for their warm welcome, saying that it is a very beautiful, resourceful and friendly place. The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest took part last week in the "Theatre Olympics" International Festival, the biggest event dedicated to theatre this year, with the show "Histrionics", directed by Alexandru Dabija, with Marcel Iures in the title part. The 2023 edition of the Theatre Olympics is a special one, both in terms of quality and impressive statistics: from April to July, 400 companies from 58 countries will be coming to Hungary for a real festival of light. The 750 performances that will bring together some 7500 performers suggest a potential record for the largest festival of its time! "Histrionics", a play by one of the most important contemporary playwrights, the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, is a paradoxical hymn to the theatrical art, but also a caustic look at our petty and tragicomic lives.   As Bruscon, Marcel Iureș gives life to a splendid buffoon in search of the absolute in art.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre from Bucharest will participate, on Saturday, May 20, 2023, in the International "Theatre Olympics" Festival, the largest event dedicated to theatre this year, with the performance "Histrionics", starring Marcel Iures. The host country for the 10th anniversary edition of Theatre Olympics 2023 is Hungary, which is a travelling event. Its founder is Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos, chairman of the Theatre Olympics International Festival Committee. The organizer of the 2023 Theatre Olympics is the "Madach Imre" National Theatre from Budapest, and the artistic director is Attila Vidnyánszky, general director of this theatre. The previous edition of the Theatre Olympics Festival was held in 2019 (before the pandemic) in Russia and Japan at the same time, with the motto "Let's build bridges". Today, against the backdrop of bridges destroyed by bombings in Ukraine and the continuing fraying of bonds between countries and peoples - this motto implies a bitter irony...". The 2023 edition of the Theatre Olympics will be a special one, both in terms of quality and impressive statistics: from April to July, 400 companies from 58 countries will come to Hungary for a true festival of light. The 750 performances that will bring together some 7500 performers suggest a potential record for the largest festival of its time! All genres of theatre are represented, as well as dance, puppetry, street theatre, etc. However, it is not quantity, but quality and demanding artistic criteria that have been the basis for the selection of this jubilee edition of Theatre Olympics, which opens its arms wide, inviting all theatres in Budapest and throughout Hungary to join it, in order to invite, at their own choice, in complete autonomy, a theatre from abroad and from the cross-border area. In this way, not only the "fourth wall" between the stage and the audience disappears, but also the one between the capital and the provinces, the tension between "center" and "periphery" disappears. Prestigious theatre events will take place both in Budapest and in 12 different cities across the country: Debreczen, Szeged, Gyor, Miskolc, Pecs, Nyiregyhaza... There will be performances by well-known personalities of international theatre: Theodoros Terzopoulos, Suzuki Tadashi, Romeo Castellucci, Krystian Lupa, Slava Polunyin, Heiner Goebbels, Silviu Purcarete, Eugenio Barba, Tiago Rodrigues, Alessandro Serra, Christoph Marthaler, Declan Donnellan, Alexandru Dabija, Ivo van Hove and many others. This is the context in which the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre accepted the invitation of the "Moricz Zsigmond" Theatre in Nyiregyhaza to present, within the Theatre Olympics festival, the performance Histrionics by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Alexandru Dabija. The cast includes Marcel Iureș, Ana Ciontea, Alexandru Bindea, Alexandra Salceanu, Lucian Iftime, Victoria Dicu, Afrodita Androne. "Histrionics", a play by one of the most important contemporary playwrights, the Austrian Thomas Bernhard, is a paradoxical hymn to the theatrical art, but also a caustic look at our petty and tragicomic lives. As Bruscon, Marcel Iureș gives life to a splendid buffoon in search of the absolute in art. A megalomaniac, misanthropic, hypochondriac, nihilistic and intemperate actor, author and director, Bruscon bursts into tirades against the mediocrity of his country, rants about everything from politics, society, theatre - which he claims to loathe -, rages against the conditions he is offered, because nothing and no one lives up to his artistic ambitions, and especially his family, with whom he behaves tyrannically. The production "Histrionics" will be performed on May 20, 2023, at 7 p.m. in the 400-seat Móricz ZsigmondȚ Theatre in Nyíregyháza.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

For the first time on the Atelier stage of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest, Perplex - a play by one of the most popular contemporary German authors, Marius von Mayenburg! Translated by Elise Wilk and directed by Stefan Iordanescu, "Perplex" is an absurd and surreal comedy, in which the world of the protagonists falls apart with dizzying speed, where relationships dissolve and reassemble in surprising ways. The first performances will take place on 10 and 11 May (previews), 17 May 2023 (premiere). Until the end of the season, two more performances on 3 and 22 June 2023. All performances start at 20.00. Marius von Mayenburg is a playwright and director at the famous Berlin theatre Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz - where he began his career and established himself as a playwright with the play Feuergesicht/Fireface, subsequently translated into over 20 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean. He has written numerous plays and radio plays. He also works as a translator (Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, etc.) In 2010, he wrote PERPLEX, which he staged himself at the Schaubühne. This play has been staged once before in Romania, by Theodor Cristian Popescu, at the "Ioan Slavici" Theatre in Arad. Also in our country, his plays "Fireface", "The Cold Child", "The Ugly one", "Plastic", "Martyr", "The Stone". Instigating and rebellious, funny and witty, the German playwright's text launches a real assault on theatrical conventions, on the classical plot, on the traditional concept of the fourth wall and, finally, on the consistency of the theatrical character. The situations follow one another confusingly and quickly, impregnated with a lot of humor, in this play in which everything is theater, but the director has not appeared, and the set is dismantled while the play is still playing. A play in which vitality and metamorphosis are celebrated, revealing the human tendency to escape to other roles, other identities, or other, perhaps more auspicious lives. The author leaves it up to the director and actors to decide whether the characters take on the names of the performers. That's why you'll hear them calling each other by name, or using their diminutive. In the cast: Medeea Marinescu, Alexandra Salceanu, Gavril Patru, Petre Ancuta. "The moment you meet four actors so dedicated, so willing to unravel the secrets of a text that breaks the barriers of conventional dramaturgy - says director Stefan Iordanescu - it's better to step back. For me, this project was an experiment. That of respecting the spirit and the letter of the text as much as possible. I believe it is our duty to make the audience go through all the stages through which four actors, in exceptional form, bring before our eyes a story about the world and life, about the ridiculous and the sublime, with the means of the postmodernist current in which, of course, nothing of what there is not apparent to you, in which themes from Pirandello, Brecht and Martin Crimp are woven together in an almost mathematical demonstration of the world, life, theatre and the vain. At these moments the author has decreed that the director has retired. And so he should be. I'd still like to find him somewhere again at the applause and catch a glimpse of the gleam of triumph in the eyes of the actors on stage. Because we also have to contradict the text, don't we?" asks the director rhetorically. The atmosphere of the show is supported artistically, visually and acoustically by his other collaborators: Dorothea Iordanescu - Set design and original music, Sebastian Hamburger - Video design, Flavia Giurgiu - Stage movement, Lucian Moga - Lighting design. We invite you to stay as long as possible... Perplexed, watching this fast-paced and provocative prank, brilliantly performed by the four NTB actors, under the discreet but effective direction of director Stefan Iordanescu.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

In accordance with the provisions of Law 307.Art.19, letter K and OMAI/163/2007 art.144-147 on emergency response exercises, On May 15, 2023, starting at 10.00 am, the "Mihai Voda" Fire Department of the "Dealul Spirii" Bucharest-Ilfov Emergency Situations Inspectorate carried out at the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre in Bucharest a fire prevention and firefighting exercise with forces and means on the ground in which all NTB employees present in the building participated. When the fire alarm went off, the employees evacuated the building according to the evacuation plan established by the SPSU, CT, PSI intervention coordinators and followed the steps that were communicated to them in advance by the convocation sent by email to all NTB employees. A similar exercise will also take place on 16 and 17 May 2023, starting at 22.00 (after the end of the performances on those days). Drafted: Zapan Iordan CTSU   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu