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In 2024, the Stara Zagora Puppet Theater produced its first puppet theater short film RENT, which has already been made and included in the selection of two international short film festivals. The official premiere of the film in Bulgaria will be this Se

We are happy to announce that on March 27 - World Theatre Day, at 6:00 PM, we will present the premiere of the play The Big Hat based on a Japanese fairy tale. The play is a graduation project of the actress from our theatre Elitsa Mateva.rn THE BIG HAT

The first premiere of the year and Puppet Theatre Stara Zagoras playfor babies and toddlers will be performed on February 12 at 10.30 a.m. Immediately after, from 11.30 h. is the second performance. The performance bears the sonorous name Dzak and was c

LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUSrn And this year we continue our Letters to Santa Claus initiative. Drop your letter in the special mailbox located in the lobby of the Stara Zagora Puppet Theater! If you want to get a reply from the Good Old Man, post your letter

???? CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Non-profit organization PIERROT and State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora have opened a call for applications for participation in the 14-th edition of International Puppet Theatre for Adults Festival PIERROT which will be held fro

The performance Hotel with author and director Lyubomir Zhelev has returned from a successful participation in the International Puppet Festival in Beijing, China. Within two days at the festival, the performance was performed three times in front of Be

The performance of the results of the Rootless Creative Laboratory is this Saturday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m., in the Puppet Theater. Admission is free with passes available at the theater box office daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. If you are not able t

The 13th creative laboratory Without roots with leaders Veselka Kuncheva, Marieta Golomehova and Milen Apostolov began with emigrant stories from Mission Wings Foundation. Within a few hours, the participants got acquainted with the personal destinies o

We are happy to inform you that this season for the Childrens Theater School at the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theater was filled with premieres, packed halls, participation in National Theater Festivals and awards: - Main male role - Viktor Traykov for h

Dear viewers,rn In July and August, our performances on Saturdays and Sundays will start with a new starting time - 10:30. All performances of the program are planned for the summer stage, but in case of very high temperatures from the morning, they will

DKT Childrens Theater School presents Peter Pan rn The childrens theater school at the Stara Zagora Puppet Theater premiered on 1 June, International Childrens Day. The children from the school will present to the little ones grown-up children from the

The puppet theater received the Stara Zagora collective award for 2024 in the direction Culture and Art for the realization of the performance The Secret of Lenchen by Michael Ende, directed by Elitsa Petkova.rn In March, the theater also received an

Special award for versatile acting expression of Lyubomir Zhelev for the performance HOTEL of the State Puppet Theater Stara Zagora at the International Theater Festival for Children and Youth in Novi Sad, Serbia!rn According to the festival jury: This

Stara Zagora Puppet Theater received the IKAR National Award for the best puppet show for The Secret of Lenchen and a Special Award of the Ministry of Culture for high results achieved in theater management and creative activity. This is the second IKAR

In 2003, on the initiative of UNIMA Internationale, the celebration of the World Day of Puppet Theater was launched with the main idea of ​​being both a real tool for popularizing the art of puppetry and a project that allows the unification of creators

The actor from the Stara Zagora Puppet Theatre Iliyaz Ilyaz has been nominated for the Sivina Award - for an acting debut in puppetry for his roles of Tyrone and Jason in the play Honourable Cross , directed by Tsveti Penyashki.rn The Sivina award was

State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora and NGO "Pierrot" announce an open call for participation in the XIII Creative Laboratory "Without Roots", which will be held from July 21 to August 3, 2024 in the city of Stara Zagora.

We are happy to announce that our theater will be visiting Sofia with four of its new performances in February. On three consecutive days in the Capital Puppet Theater you will be able to watch the performances "Hotel", "Fragment of the Moon" and "The Sec