Financing issues in the past years and future strategies were discussed at a conference of the Performing Arts Employers Associations League Europe (Pearle) in Budapest on Friday and Saturday, a senior Hungarian official told MTI. Read more...

The latest piece directed and co-written by the acclaimed Hungarian film director, Kornél Mundruczó - after Brussles, LisbonEssen, Rotterdamse Schouwburg and Bordeaux - arrives in Budapest. Read more...

A theater of objects, a modern dance performance and a multimedia exhibition, will represent Flemish contemporary art at the month-long Futurspektiv2011 festival starting in Budapest on April 7, the organisers told MTI on Thursday. Read more...

A Russian circus-review on water by Yana Schevchenko will feature cats, pigeons, a seal, a crocodile and a snake at the Budapest State Circus between April 2 and August 28, the circus's artistic director said on Friday. Read more...

The 31st Budapest Spring Festival starting on Friday will feature 97 concerts, theatre and dance performances and exhibitions, held under the auspices of Hungary's European Union presidency and coinciding with the birth bicentenary of Franz Liszt. Read more...

“Propaganda!” is a co-production of The Symptoms with the Dutch-Austrian artists’ duo united sorry (Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn). The performance questions the language and imagery of the current political debate and investigates the feeling of home and the notion of identity in an always-changing society. Read more...

At the invitation of the Maladype Theatre Teatrul Act Bucharest will present Alina Nelega`s award winning monodrama. Read more...

Objective chants and poems drawn from an impassive animal. "Scott Gibbons' music creates a sense of unease with its rumbles, pops and screams that feels as if it is happening inside your own head." (The Guardian) Read more...

First class acts during the Budapest Spring Festival, between 18 March and 3 April at the National Theatre. Read more...

A play about the bigotries and hypocrisies of village life. With English surtitles on 11 February 2011 as part of X-Section. Read more...

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You can never tell what Three sisters by Chekhov means to you until you have put it on stage - there has been a massive row of re-redirections of the play lately in Hungarian theatres and they are always compared with the archetype, i.e. the legendary version created by Tamas Ascher and the Katona Jozsef Theatre, Budapest in 1985. Read more...

Róbert Alföldi opened his first season at the National Theatre with a guest performance: Uncle Vanya from the Cluj Hungarian State Theatre, Romania, directed by Andrei Şerban. Since then he wanted to entice this significant artist to stage a production at the main stage in the National Theatre. With English surtitles on 10 February 2011 as part of X-Section. Read more...

Made in China is a modern-day Gesamtkunstwerk performed by three female artists coming from different - and usually separate- artistic fields. Read more...

This production at the Orkeny Theatre is basically built around one and only one idea. Instead of the traditional stage, a black canvas with a rectangular-shaped hole is on display. Read more...

Appearances by key figures of the world arts scene, novelties and world premières, traditional values and innovative aspirations, events offering deep insights and quality entertainment await visitors to the Spring Festival. Read more...

An internal journal, a total schizophrenia, the creation of new characters within ourselves previously unknown to us. Read more...

The Orkeny Theatre, balancing well between the concepts of popular and artistic theatre, embarked on one of their biggest adventures yet when they invited the director Sandor Zsoter to head their first premiere in this season. Read more...

The internationally known Katona József Theatre, the National Theatre and the Örkény Theatre joined in the framework of a showcase to present nine of their shows in four days (10-13 February) with English surtitles or simultanuous translation. The shows are open to the general public so it is a unique opportunity for theatre fan expats or tourists staying in the capital. Read more...

Disfunctional fashion and interactive theatre in one. Read more...

Merlin Theatre in a collaboration with Madhouse Company now invite to a journey full of magic and imagination. Read more...

We could quite simply call it a historical event in the recent history of Hungarian and Romanian theatre and cultural communication. Read more...

HOPPart Company presents theis new show based on William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. On 20 January 2011 with English surtitles. Read more...

In the studio of the National, George Tabori’s play Mein Kampf is a good performance with youthful energy and unconventional theatre. Read more...

Robert Alfoldi’s Bank ban takes a fresh look at a national classic. Read more...

This February sees a world first at the Merlin theatre. The Scallabouche Company presents The Naked Impro Show, a cross between bad psychodrama and Whose Line Is It Anyway. Read more...

The latest piece directed and co-written by the acclaimed Hungarian film director, Kornél Mundruczó - after Brussles, LisbonEssen, Rotterdamse Schouwburg and Bordeaux - arrives in Budapest. Read more...

Hungary's two devoted initiators of international artistic collaboration, Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts and Workshop Foundation organise the second edition of the platform for contemporary Hungarian performing arts entitled dunaPart, to be held 20-22 January 2011 in Budapest. Read more...

Siren is a spectacular performance piece that takes place within an installation of large sound sculptures; metal tripods with rotating arms that emit electronic drones. Read more...

West Balkan, which opened in the Skála Metró building in the spring, will be the new location of the city’s theatre as of the fall. Their October program seems promising. Read more...