Director Romualdas Vikšraitis, the former director of the ”Elf Theatre” and one of the founders of the ”Odd Men Theatre” became the director of the Panevėžys Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre and was the only candidate to have submitted his application for the position.
The Arts Printing House decided to dedicate the entire second week of October to children. During the event ”Different Theatre for Children” they could come to the Arts Printing House and make friends with actors, dancers and various other artists.
In autumn, 2010, ”No Theatre” started its first theatrical season by presenting the premiere of the performance ”Telephone Book”. The director of the performance is ideological leader of ”No Theatre” Vidas Bareikis.
The Ministry of Culture announced six names of the laureates of the Lithuanian National Culture and Art Awards of the year 2010. The names of theatre director Povilas Mataitis and set designer Dalia Lidija Mataitienė were among the laureates.
85 years ago, the State theatre in Kaunas housed the premiere of the first professional ballet performance ”Coppélia” by Leo Delibes. On December 3, the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute organized an international scientific conference to mark the anniversary of the ballet.
On November 20, 2010, the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre together with magazine ”Bravissimo” arranged the 5th international seminar of opera critics called ”From "Traviata” to "Valkyrie”
On November 5-7, 2010, the meeting of the Dramatic Laboratory Network, the network for contemporary drama by new playwrights was held at the Arts Printing House.
The play ”Malыš” by playwright Marius Ivaškevičius was granted the first prize at the international new dramaturgy festival ”The Recovery of Present” organised in Yerevan, on October 26-31 this year.
In November this year, the Black Hall of the Arts Printing House housed the premiere of the performance ”The Public” directed by Gintaras Varnas and based on the play ”El Publico” by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.
The eleventh season of the Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (OKT) continues with the premiere of ”The Lower Depths” based on the play bearing the same title by Maxim Gorky.
The Theatre and Cinema Information and Education Centre (TCIEC) together with the Diplomatic Representative Office of Lithuania in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland launched a continuous project of Lithuanian dramaturgy dissemination ”Lithuanian Drama in London”.
After being elected director of the LNDT, Martynas Budratis listed extra measures necessary for the rescue of the theatre from the grip of a commercial repertoire.
From October, every second Thursday, the information resource centre ”Infoteka” of the Arts Printing House welcomed everybody for a cup of tea and a conversation on stage arts.
On October 9, the Vilnius cinema ”Forum Cinemas Vingis” welcomed its spectators to the first opera broadcast of the season aired from the New York theatre ”Metropolitan Opera”.
This year, due to the change of the concept of the Vilnius theatre festival ”Sirens” (i.e., the idea of creative community) as well as significantly reduced sponsorship, the scope of the programme of the festival was a little narrower and was shown in smaller space of the Arts Printing House.
The 20th Kaunas International Festival of Modern Dance marked its anniversary on September 18-26 by presenting a joint project ”Panorams of Opened Eyes” of the Spanish theatres Manantiales and Tranvia and the dance theatre Aura in the cities of Kaunas and Vilnius.
This year, on September 9-12, the Arts Printing House announced its fifth, anniversary New Circus Weekend offering five performances brought from Spain, France, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden.
The book ”A Concise History of Lithuanian Ballet” (Lith. ”Trumpa Lietuvos baleto istorija”) by Helmutas Šabasevičius was first published in English and then, following a year, the book was printed in Lithuanian.
The programme of the annual debutant festival ”Silence!” introduced three courses of young artists from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre to its audience.
Together with Goethe-Institut Vilnius the twelfth New Drama Action (NDA) presented for the first time the works of German playwright Heiner Müller (1929-1995), one of the most prominent late 20th century theatre thinkers, to the Lithuanian audience.
The programme of stage young artists ”Open Space” organised by the Arts Printing House presented five new projects that had been created and shown to the audience during the year.
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