The municipal Lycabettus Theater will reopen its doors to the public after 15 years on September 15, 2023, with a landmark concert featuring one of Greece’s greatest composers of popular music, Stavros Xarchakos, on stage. The Municipality of Athens vied for and undertook the restoration of the iconic theater, which …
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Actors, theater workers on 48-hour strike
Actors and theater workers have called a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday in protest at a draft government bill on pay in the sector. Strikers extend their mobilization to daily TV series sets where cameras will be off for the same two days. The strike is been joined also …
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Greek #MeToo: Actors Association submits file with double-digit complaints to prosecutors
The Greek Actors Association submitted to prosecuting authorities a file containing serious allegation of sexual abuse and harassment in the world of theater and movies. The reported cases are expected to expand prosecutors’ investigation into the so-called Greek #MeToo movement. According to media information, the submitted file contained double-digit cases. …
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MeToo in Greece moved to world of Arts, denouncements take a form of avalanche
The MeToo movement in Greece has moved from the world of Sports to the world of Arts and Entertainment with female and male actors denouncing sexual harassment and abuse but also bulling by directors in theater and the film industry. Actresses Jenny Botsi, Angeliki Lambri and Loukia Michala joined their …
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“Medea and other friends I met in Athens”: Unique ancient theater in English
For the second year in a row, a unique performance of ancient Greek theatre -with a twist – helps travellers in Athens to complete their experience of Greece. Right, under the Acropolis. The performance “Medea are other friends I made in Athens” is in English. It is “the funniest 60 …
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Aeschylus’ The Persians live-streamed from Epidaurus on July 25
For the first time ever, the performance of a major ancient Greek drama will be live-streamed from the famous ancient theater of Epidaurus. Aeschylus’ The Persians performed by actors of the Greek National Theater will be available to a global audience on July 25, 2020. The performance is in Greek …
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Lesvos: One-member Censorship Committee to ban theater plays with gays
The deputy mayor of Lesvos plans to establish a one-member Censorship Committee in order to hinder gays on stage of local theaters. According to local media reports, the deputy mayor, who is in charge of Culture, wants to safeguard the “good morals” on the island. Deputy mayor, Panagiotis Tsakiris, revealed …
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Theater in Athens: “Women of Passion, Women of Greece” – in English :)
Would you love to visit a English-speaking theater performance in downtown Athens? The very original theater stage in a railway carriage “Railway Carriage Theater” – Treno sto Rouf – offers one: every Saturday, all through the season, until Easter 2017. “Women of Passion, Women of Greece” According to the Press …
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Golden Dawn MP Frees Detainee as Fanatics Storm Theater to Stop T. Nally’s “Corpus Christi”
Dozens members of extreme-right Golden Dawn and religious organisations attempted to storm a theater in Athens on Thursday evening to stop the premiere of Terence Nally’s play “Corpus Christi”. Riot police was deployed outside the theater “Chytirio” in Iera Odos Avenue in the east of Athens, teargas was fired and …
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