The Iranian Theater Festival

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 14, 2011

Gyda Arber and Michael Gardner, curators of the Iranian Theater Festival, discuss the festival, the first in New York devoted solely to Iranian Theater. Leila Ghaznavi, playwright and director of the featured production “Silken Veils,” joins them to speak about the current state of Iranian drama. The Iranian Theater Festival is presented through March 26 by the Brick Theater.

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