Entertainment

A group of clowns who usually entertain retirees in their rooms at seniors homes has taken to performing outside instead so their audience can watch from their windows or balconies while in coronavirus-enforced isolation.

The whole world is struggling to cope with the outbreak of Covid-19 and Australia is no different as the confirmed cases of the virus reaches above 2000.

Today is the World Theatre Day.

The date was chosen in 1961 at a congress of the UNESCO International Theater Institute and is associated with the opening of the season of the Theater of Nations in Paris in 1962, ITI reported.

Carnaval La Land, a special event featuring musical theater, flash mobs, Afro-Brazilian percussion, samba, tango and many more surprises, will be happening in Syntagma Square on Friday, February 28.

Within the framework of the plan to deal with a possible outbreak of the new coronavirus in Greece, the government will issue a legislative act which will include measures to prevent it from appearing and spreading in the country.

According to government spokesman Stelios Petsas, the legislative act consists of five key articles.

Director, dancer and choreographer Lloyd Newson and the British Rambert Dance Company present "Enter Achilles," a physical theater performance which tackles the subject of masculinity and the stereotypes surrounding it, on the main stage of the Onassis Stegi in downtown Athens.

Göbeklitepe, the world's oldest known temple, is the focus of a new upcoming opera directed by Murat Karahan, the tenor of the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. (Photos:Alamy)

Amid major changes to gambling laws in Bulgaria, the most influential figure in the sector, Vasil Bojkov, a billionaire businessman, football boss and former owner of the recently-nationalised National Lottery is facing deportation from the United Arab Emirates after his recent arrest.

The bill establishing a National Gambling Agency, which replaces the State Gambling Commission, has been published for discussion, BNR reported.

"End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," the 2003 film by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields recounting the legendary band's life and career, will be screened at the Astor cinema in downtown Athens on Monday, January 20. The screening begins at 9 p.m.