Archive 2023

The current director of the East Bohemian Theatre in Pardubice, Petr Dohnal, remains at the helm, having successfully defended his position for the fifth time in the bankruptcy proceedings. The future new head of the Pardubice branch, Thalia, has another six-year term ahead of him, and he will serve as director of the VČD until May 31, 2029.

At the 65th Pearle* General Assembly on 12 May 2023, a new executive committee was elected at the National Theatre in Oslo, including a new president for the next two years. Zdeněk Pánek, Secretary of the Association of Professional Theatres of the Czech Republic, was elected to the governing body of the prestigious European organisation for the...

Continuously improving the qualifications of employees is one part of the mission of the Association of Professional Theatres.

Let's celebrate World Theatre Day with a minute of silence for all the artists who fell in senseless wars, for bombed-out theatres, and for the destroyed cultural values ​​that took centuries to develop.

In a survey by the professional magazine Svět a divadlo, 84 critics voted by simple and direct choice. The awards, whose visual appearance was designed by designer Marie Štumpfová, were received by artists in eight categories. The main winners were Prague drama productions.

On the eve of the anniversary of the war, theaters from all over the country joined the call of the Association of Professional Theaters (e.g. the National Theater in Prague, the Naive Theater of Liberec, the East Bohemian Theater of Pardubice, the National Moravian-Silesian Theater in Ostrava, the Dejvick Theater, the Švand Theater or the Na...

A year ago, the Association of Professional Theatres of the Czech Republic called on all Czech theatres, cultural, public and state institutions to support the inviolability of state territory by flying Ukrainian flags. The flags are still flying on our buildings because Russian aggression continues. The humanitarian, economic and moral catastrophe...

The Czech Technical University has received accreditation for a new interfaculty study field. The program was prepared jointly by the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
Applications for the academic year 2023/2024 can be submitted from February 14, 2023. The program was created at the initiative of and...