The MONDAY Theatre at Green Hours (Bucharest) returned for the third time to New York City to present one of its most controversial productions – "Nils’ Fucked Up Day", written and directed by Peca Ştefan. This is also the second participation of the MONDAY Theatre at the New York Fringe Festival, following a series of performances in 2007. Read here the welcoming reviews of the production during its festival run.

“Lost Bohemia” had a recent run at the IFC Center, at 323 Avenue of the Americas. This was a screening for people who had lived in Carnegie Hall before it evicted its tenants. The screening took place in the living room of Rodica Prato and Roland Caracostea — she is an illustrator; he, a graphic artist — who now live in an apartment a block from the place they miss so much."

The New York Times featured in the December 29 issue a second article this month on literature in translation, namely about the Best European Fiction 2011 anthology, including Romanian author Lucian Dan Teodorovici:In Europe, Mixing Union and Diversity, by Larry Rohter.

The New York Times featured in the December 7 issue a comprehensive article on literature in translation:Translation as Literary Ambassador, by Larry Rohter.

Today’s Europe is a fascinating blend of modernity and history, with 200mph trains speeding past 1,000-year-old towns. In 2010 New Literature from Europe, a yearly festival introducing NYC audiences to contemporary European writers who are garnering critical and public acclaim across the Atlantic, celebrated this intermingling of the past and present...

The Chicago International Film Festival featured, as part of its 46th edition, two Romanian productions. "If  I Want to Whistle, I Whistle", directed by Florin Şerban, was Romania’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Following itw world premiere in Cannes 2010, and its US premiere at the New York Film Festival in September, Radu Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas continued its US presentation. Director Radu Muntean appeared in person, with the support of RCINY.

Romanian choreographers Mădălina Dan, Mihaela Dancs, Paul Dunca, Vava Ştefănescu, and dance critic Gina Şerbanescu met their American peers and US audience. The exchange was presented by Movement Research, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, National Dance Center Bucharest, Dance Theater Workshop and Gabriela Tudor Foundation, and facilitated by the artists Cosmin Manolescu and Levi Gonzalez.

The 48 edition of the New York Film Festival highlighted the best in world cinema, screening critically acclaimed films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent from fourteen countries. This highly selective program featured no less than three Romanian productions, proof of the persisting effervescence of the New Wave in contemporary Romanian cinema.
Cristi Puiu’s third featured, 'Aurora' and Radu Muntean’s 'Tuesday, After Christmas' joined 26 other films on the festival’s main slate, while Andrei Ujică’s essay film 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu' was screened as part of the festival’s special programming.