Berliner Ensemble

Maribor – The 56th Maribor Theatre Festival will be held from 14 to 27 June instead of its usual slot in October, but it will be held fully in-person. Its artistic director Aleš Novak said that while many other festivals decided to go hybrid, they insisted on fully live events.

Spyros Payiatakis, a cosmopolitan journalist, long-time theater critic for Kathimerini, foreign correspondent and pioneer of digital reporting, died in Athens on Wednesday.

He was 79 and had been in frail health for several years.

Born in Thessaloniki on April 1, 1939, Payiatakis studied at the city's Anatolia College before leaving to study architecture in Berlin.

German actress and singer Gisela May has passed away aged 92. May is best known for her performances of political songs by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Born in Wetzlar, Germany, in 1924, May was the daughter of actor and writer Käte May and writer Ferdinand May and attended drama school in Leipzig from 1942 to 1944.

The 20th Istanbul Theater Festival will be held between May 3 and 28, presenting a total of 32 performances, nine from abroad and 23 from TurkeyThe 20th edition of the Istanbul Theater Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV), will take place from May 3 to 28.