Ivan Vazov National Theater
Neoclassical Viennese-designed playhouse facing a city park, home to the country's oldest stage company.
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This guide to the Ivan Vazov National Theater in Sofia drops you into a February evening in nineteen twenty-three, when the company was on its own stage for a jubilee celebrating the nation's drama. It follows the players through years of borrowed halls and touring, a German architect's rebuilding, and the bombs of nineteen forty-four. Stand facing the columned façade from the park for the best view of what the story turns on.
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