And since Rouhani's election, numerous theatrical productions - including Rosat's Farsi rendition of The Sound of Music, Hamid-Reza Naimi's Faust and Socrates, Mohammad Rahmanian's The Last Days of Esfand, and Diana Adama's recreation of Mozart's Magic Flute - have made waves for their substantive solos by female vocalists.
"We are setting the state for military, media and psychological preparation in response to the droll and dangerous theatrical play, called parliamentary elections," the recording, attributed to a figure known as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, warned, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group.
A plutocracy, says my old friend, the historian Bernard Weisberger, "has a natural instinct to perpetuate and enlarge its own powers and by doing so slams the door of opportunity to challengers and reduces elections to theatrical duels between politicians who are marionettes worked by invisible strings".
But Ackerman's book was not written to capitalize on the theatrical appeal of the 2016 election.
THE well-being of 202m people may be at stake, but it is hard not to dwell on the theatrical side of next week's elections in five states.
He is constitutionally barred from contesting next weekend's elections and soon this theatrical, mercurial, complex man will have to find a new occupation.
Among other things, A. R. Gurney's comedy is theatrical balm for Democrats bruised by recent election results.
Theatrical balm for Democrats bruised by last week's election results is available at Primary Stages, where A. R. Gurney's comedy "The Fourth Wall" opened yesterday.
Arriving amid arguably the wildest presidential election in history, "Weiner" charts the theatrical nature of a grueling political bout and the media's culpability in glamorizing public figures' transgressions.
The school hall is used for other village activities such as the Bentworth Garden Club, performances by the Bentworth Mummers (the local amateur theatrical group), other meetings, and as the local polling station during elections.
