The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre is pleased to announce a new premiere: "CINDERELLA", a dramatization of the famous fairy tale of the same name, which enjoys the directorial signature of Adela Moldovan, the assistant director of Florian Silaghi, the set design of Eustațiu Gregorian, the music of Ladislau Lupovits and the costumes made by Oana Cernea, which will take place on Sunday, April 9, from 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM at the Arcadia Hall. 

The Regina Maria Theater invites you to celebrate spring by stepping into the infinite universe of imagination! Each show is a portal to a fascinating world, full of secrets waiting to be deciphered. You just have to choose your destination.

April theatrics started off masterfully with "Fiddler on the Roof", which was performed again behind closed doors. Still to the rhythm of dance and charming trills, we are waiting for you in April 4, from 7:00 PM, at the Great Hall, the show "In full glory!”, by Peter Quilter, directed by Cristian Ioan.

The message for WORLD THEATRE DAY is delivered this year by the French actress Isabelle Huppert:

"It has been 55 years since, every spring, a World Theatre Day has taken place. One day, that is, 24 hours, which begin in the area of Noh and Bunraku theatre, pass through Beijing-style opera and Kathakali, stop between Greece and Scandinavia, between Aeschylus and Ibsen, between Sophocles and Strindberg, then between England and Italy, between Sarah Kane and Pirandello, but also in France, where we are and where Paris is, however, the city in the world that receives the most foreign troupes. Next, our 24 hours take us from France to Russia, from Racine and Molière to Chekhov, then cross the Atlantic to stop at a Californian student campus where some young people are perhaps reinventing theatre. Because theatre is always reborn from its own ashes. It is nothing but a convention that must be abolished without delay. That is how it stays alive. Theatre has a rich life that defies space and time, the most contemporary plays are nourished by past centuries, the most classical repertoires become modern every time they are staged again.

The Regina Maria Theatre is pleased to announce the return to the theatre stage, after a two-year absence, of one of the most beloved shows of the last seasons: "Fiddler on the Roof", a musical by Joseph Stein based on the stories of Sholom Alecheim, directed by György Korcsmáros. The first performance will take place on Sunday, April 2, at 7:00 PM, in the Great Hall.

World Puppet Theatre Day is celebrated every year on March 21, and the Arcadia Troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre has thoroughly prepared for the celebration.

The Regina Maria Theatre is pleased to announce the national premiere of the play "Baraca", by Aiat Fayez, which enjoys the directorial and scenographic signature of Tudor Lucanu. The premiere will take place on Saturday, March 11, at 7:00 PM, at the Arcadia Hall. The author of the play, Aiat Fayez (b. 1979), is a contemporary playwright of Iranian origin, who immigrated to Paris to study philosophy. Shortly after publishing his first novel, in 2009 – "Cycle des manières de mourir", which deals with the theme FOREIGNER from the immigrant's perspective – he moves to Vienna, where he will dedicate himself entirely to writing. He publishes two more novels and writes several plays that are successful and attract the attention of French theater people as well. Thus, in 2015, at the suggestion of director Ludovic Lagarde, he writes the text "Baraca", especially for the TERRORisms project, initiated by the "Union of Theaters in Europe" and financed by the Creative Europe Program, which was staged at the Comedy Theater in Reims.

The show "A Very Simple Story", by Maria Lado, directed by Elvira Rîmbu, returned from the third edition of the "Scena ca o stradă" International Theatre Festival, organized by the West Theatre of Reşiţa, crowned with success. No prizes were awarded during the festival, but based on forms filled out by the spectators, a special audience prize was established, and the honorable title went to the performance from Oradea. 

The success enjoyed by the Oradea troupe was also recorded by the press from Reșiști, which perfectly captured the emotion and the connection that was created between the stage and the audience: "you can't imagine how much emotion there was in the hall, how much electricity between the stage and the audience. Well, at the end, some were leaving the hall crying, others laughing! I won't go on, I'll just say that this show "melted" us and humanized us!" (Matei Marcione, Are you telling me that the sow flies?! A very simple story!, in: "Argument")

The International Theatre Festival "Scena ca o Stradă" took place between 10-20 February 2017, during which the audience from Reși enjoyed 22 theatre performances from Romania and abroad, book launches, theatre courses (workshops), painting exhibitions and debates. The special guest of this edition was the playwright Matei Vișniec, present at the premiere of the show "Migraaanți", directed by Ovidiu Caița, set designer Oana Cernea.

We thank the audience in Reşiţa for the love they rewarded us with!

MARCH 2017 PROGRAM

The Regina Maria Theater is pleased to announce the second premiere of this year by the Iosif Vulcan Troupe: "In Full Glory!", by Peter Quilter, directed by Cristian Ioan, which will take place on Sunday, February 26, at 7:00 PM, at the Great Hall of the Regina Maria Theater.

Peter Quilter is an established contemporary British playwright whose plays have been staged in renowned theatres in over 40 countries around the world, including South Africa, Canada and Australia. He has been nominated twice for Olivier Awards (Best New Comedy in 2006 and Best New Play in 2011), and his Broadway debut received three Tony Award nominations.

The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre is pleased to invite you to a new premiere: "Gulliver”, adaptation of Jonathan Swift, directed by Radu Dinulescu, which will take place on Sunday, February 19, at 11:00, at the Arcadia Hall. The show starts from the essence of Swift's novel, but the theme is approached in a contemporary manner, both from the point of view of the construction of the subject and that of the stage setting, as it proposes a combination of the universe of puppet animation with stereoscopic 3D images.

The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre, in partnership with the Ion Creangă Theatre in Bucharest (www.teatrulioncreanga.ro), organizes, between January 27-29, 2017, the first edition of "Mini Fest - theater days for the youngest spectators", an event dedicated to the youngest spectators: children aged between 0 and 6 years.

Bihor County Council, the Regina Maria Theater and the Crişana Professional Artistic Ensemble invite you on Tuesday, January 24, from 7:00 PM, to the Great Hall of the Regina Maria Theater to celebrate together the Union of the Romanian Principalities through the extraordinary concert "On the Day of the Union".

The Regina Maria Theater is pleased to announce the fifth premiere of the Iosif Vulcan Troupe of the 2016-2017 season: "Isabela, three caravels and a great liar", by Dario Fo, directed by Eugen Gyemant, which will take place on Saturday, January 21, at 7:00 PM, at the Great Hall.

Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926, Sangiano, Italy – died October 13, 2016, Milan), a contemporary playwright, set designer and actor, is a complex artistic personality, being particularly renowned for his dramatic texts of political and social satire. He was a laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, but his subversive humor also created a series of problems for him, so that he often had to face censorship, death threats, bans and even criticism from the Catholic Church.

The Regina Maria Theater has the honor of inviting you to a very special theatrical evening, dedicated to the 167th anniversary of the birth of the great poet Mihai Eminescu: the recital-performance "Caroling through the world of Luceafărului". We will be led slowly through Eminescu's lyrical universe by the actor who knew how to best portray the purity of poetic form on stage: Eugen Țugulea, laureate in 2016 of the UNITER award for a life dedicated to theater and poetry.

The lyrical journey will be harmoniously accompanied by the graceful voices of the soloists of the Crișana Professional Artistic Ensemble: Simona Costin, Otilia Haragoș, Felicia Costin, Luminița Tomuța, Cornelia Covaciu and by the magical music that emerges from the keyboard of pianist Henrietta Varady.