The Regina Maria Theater has the great pleasure of inviting you to a traditional show that will take place on Thursday, April 19, to commemorate April 20, 1919, which is a landmark day in the history of the city of Oradea. That was when the city on the Crișul Repede was liberated and it legally became part of Greater Romania, as established by the Romanian delegates at the Great National Assembly in Alba Iulia on December 1, 1918.

After a stormy start to the year, with no less than six premieres, the artistic and technical staff of the Regina Maria Theatre is taking a well-deserved vacation. So, between April 11-18, we are resting and conserving our energy, because an end-of-season season is coming with many other special surprises for our spectators!

We wish you a happy holiday with your loved ones and we look forward to seeing you at the theater on April 20, when we will laugh together at the electoral farce "A Lost Letter" (by IL Caragiale, artistic direction Cristian Ioan).

The Regina Maria Theatre responded positively to the School Otherwise Program and tried to cover as wide an area as possible geographically through the planned performances. Thus, between April 2-6, 2012, we planned a total of 16 performances for students – six performances at the Arcadia Hall, five performances at the Great Hall, two performances at Şimleu Silvaniei, two performances at Marghita and one performance at Beiuş.

“Alternative School” offers a new experience to schools in Romania. Although many of them have experience with extracurricular projects, a week of activities carried out outside of class hours, with projects and events specific to each school cycle in which all the school's students are involved, is a great challenge and a novelty in the local landscape.

The Earth Hour movement is a global initiative that aims to draw attention to the problems represented by global warming and the danger of excessive consumption of resources. It consists not only of turning off the lights for one hour but refers to a real commitment to changing behavior and lifestyle in order to reduce the impact on the environment as much as possible. In the last edition, in 2011, over 135 countries, 6000 cities and about 1 billion 500 million people were involved in this campaign worldwide.

The Arcadia troupe of the Regina Maria Theatre in Oradea will travel to Marghita (Bihor County) on Friday, March 29. The show "A Story with a Song" (adaptation of "Punguţa cu doi bani" by Ecaterina Mihăescu-Păun, under the artistic direction of Mihai Păun) will be performed from 10 am to 12 pm at the city's Culture House.

World Theatre Day – March 27, 2012

International Message

“I am honored by the invitation of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute to greet the 50th anniversary of the first World Theatre Day. I will address a few brief thoughts to all my colleagues and friends in the theatres.

I wish your work to be compelling and original. I wish it to be profound, to move, to provoke reflection, to be unique. May it help us meditate on what it means to be human, and may this meditation be blessed with soul, sincerity, innocence and grace. I wish you to overcome adversity, censorship, poverty and nihilism, which many of you will surely be forced to do. I wish you to be blessed with the talent and rigor necessary to teach us the human heartbeat in all its complexity, as well as the modesty and curiosity necessary to make this your life's work. May the best among you - for only those, only rarely and only for a short time, will succeed - be able to illustrate the elementary question: "What is life like?". Good luck!" (John Malkovich)

John Malkovich

The Regina Maria Theater is pleased to announce the new premiere that will take place on March 31st – "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", adapted by Dale Wasserman (based on the novel by Ken Kesey), under the artistic direction of Marius Oltean.

Published in 1962, the famous novel by American writer Ken Kesey enjoyed fantastic popularity around the world, forming the basis of the film awarded with 5 Oscars (1975, directed by Milos Forman, with Jack Nicholson) and the Broadway play, adapted by Dale Wasserman.

As every year, the Regina Maria Theater responds positively to the National Campaign launched by UNITER - "Artists for Artists", so this year, on the occasion of World Theatre Day, which will be celebrated on March 27, the show chosen to be performed on this special day is "Fiddler on the Roof" (adaptation from the story by Sholom Aleichem, artistic direction by Korcsmaros Gyorgy).

The National Campaign "Artists for Artists" is organized by UNITER, together with theaters in Bucharest and across the country, with the aim of raising funds for elderly artists with health problems.

The Regina Maria Theatre, in collaboration with the Rock Filarmonica Foundation, cordially invites you to a unique show of theatre, music, dance and poetry, on a chosen day: March 21, International Poetry Day. At the same time, this day also coincides with the birthday of the Oradea artist Florian Chelu Madeva, which we will celebrate with friends and collaborators. The book and CD “Luth, compagnon…” will also be launched on the same evening.

We are therefore waiting for you at a show with a Renaissance atmosphere of the 16th century, when the great poets were in full emancipation and art was at its peak. The favorite of art circles was the poetess Louise Labé, a renowned Renaissance artist. In the show “Luth, compagnon…”, artistic director Emil Sauciuc will recreate a symposium-cenacle type evening, trying to bring back the spirit of those times, a creation based on words, sound, light and color.

The Telluris Associati company presents:

The endless column

(The infinite column)

by Mircea Eliade

A show in Italian, with Romanian subtitles

adapted and directed by Letteria Giuffrè Pagano

with Tazio Torrini

translation by Horia Corneliu Cicortaș

scenes and audio Spazio TA

Djabe is the No. 1 world music/jazz-fusion band in Hungary. In the 16 years of activity so far, the group has been awarded countless awards at home and abroad. In total, Djabe has recorded 30 albums (including live material), the band's material being available on vinyl, CD or DVD. Being one of the most sought-after Hungarian bands, Djabe has performed with great success on 3 continents and in 41 countries. The Hungarian musicians have collaborated with a number of internationally renowned artists, who particularly appreciate the performances of Djabe.

The Regina Maria Theater has the great pleasure of presenting the premiere of the Crișana Professional Artistic Ensemble, the show "Game and Song without Borders", which will take place on Sunday, March 18, starting at 7 p.m., at the Great Hall.

On March 8, Women's Day, we are waiting for you to celebrate with us in a special evening, in which we will celebrate women and love. Passion, romance, humor and music meet on the seaside in the comedy "The Lovers from Ancona" by Vajda Katalin, directed by Andrei Mihalache, starting at 7 p.m., in the Great Hall of the Regina Maria Theater.

The theater welcomes ladies and gentlemen on this special day, ladies accompanied by gentlemen have free admission to this musical show (of course, within the limit of available seats). This show participated, in December of last year, at the invitation of the Honorary Consulate of Romania, on the occasion of Romania's national day, in a tour in Italy, in Trento.

Between February 24-26, 2012, Romania, represented by the Professional Artistic Ensemble “CRIŞANA”, was the guest of honor at the Miskolc Dumpling Festival, the first winter festival and the fifth largest festival in Hungary.

Six years after the first nominations for the Uniter Gala Awards (in 2006, in the categories "Best Supporting Actor": Richard Balint - "Best Direction Award": Victor Ioan Frunză, with the show THE MERRY WIFE OF WINDSOR), the Regina Maria Theatre is back in the spotlight of the specialized critics, having the great pleasure of announcing the two nominations received for the 2012 Uniter Gala Awards.

Thus, set designer Vioara Bara and actress Ioana Dragoş-Gajdo both received a nomination: the former for best set design in the show THE ROOF FISTING Fiddler and Ioana for best supporting role, the role of Golde in the same mega-successful show by the Regina Maria Theater.