Theater in Iran is neglected from every side. This ancient art, which is cinema's great ancestor, is the breeding ground of Iran's most important cinema artists, but it is not taken very seriously.
According to data from the cinema sales and screening management system, from 1399 (2020/21) to 1402 (2023/24) only 71 theater productions have been screened. The highest number of screenings, with 26 theater productions, also relates to 1402 (2023/24).
Iranian theater in 1400 (2021/22), with more than 506 thousand audience members, achieved sales of nearly 49 billion tomans, which is the highest figure among the years 1399–1402 (2020–2024).
Sharlatan, Comedy Achmaz, Videocheck, Gone with the Wind, To Faqat Bekhand, Merci Divooneh, Zard-e Aghdi, Qamar in Venice, Penthouse and the Golabi Brothers have been the 10 highest-selling theater works in Iran in recent years.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian