SCHEDULE
We are pleased to announce the Program of performances within the 2025 National Theatre Festival.
Information about the festival’s performances and events is currently being updated on the website www.fnt.ro.
We will soon return with details regarding ticket sales, as well as the full schedule of all events of the 35th edition of FNT (performative and visual installations, staged readings, exhibitions, conferences, workshops, book launches, radio theatre, etc.). We invite you to explore the program and we look forward to welcoming you at the Festival!
The 35th edition of the National Theatre Festival (October 17–26, 2025) – under the theme “FNT 2025. TE PRIVEȘTE!” – has a curatorial team made up of Raluca Cîrciumaru (theatre critic), Alina Epîngeac (theatre critic) and Ionuț Sociu (playwright and cultural journalist). For the first time, FNT includes an associate artist: director Radu Afrim. The FNT educational module, curated by playwright Mihaela Michailov, also continues.
👉 Click here to download the performance schedule (PDF).
👉 Click here to download the related events schedule (PDF).
National Theatre Festival – 17 October 2025
Nonstop imaginarium
(a space for radio drama auditions)
October 17–26, 2025 – „I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre Bucharest, Media Hall Foyer
FNT On Air. Biographies, Memoirs
October 17-26 – Radio România Cultural
Costume / Sculpture / Body. Kantor’s theatrical objects (exhibition)
October 17-26 | National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest
Story of a Dream. Grivița53 (Inauguration of the Grivița53 Theatre building – the first theatre built together)
17-26 october┃13:00 -19:00 ┃Grivița53 Theatre (53, Calea Griviței)
In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
PERFORMATIVE READING WITHIN THE RNTF 2025
October 17 | 16:00 – National Theatre “I.L. Caragiale” Bucharest, Media Hall
FREE ADMISSION subject to seat availability
Kantor. Around The Return of Odysseus
17 October I 12.00-19.00 – National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest
Alaska
17 October| 17:00 and 21:00 – „I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre Bucharest, Pictură Hall
Death at the Revue Theatre
17 October | 17:30 – Bulandra Theatre, „Liviu Ciulei” Hall
The Glass Garden
17 October | 18:00 – “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre, Bucharest, Studio Hall
Official Opening of NFT.35
17 October | 21:00 – “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre, Bucharest, Ion Caramitru Hall