From October 1st to 6th, 2025, the QITFest International Theatre Festival, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the I. Omarov Regional Kazakh Drama Theatre, will be held in Kostanay.
The festival aims to preserve, develop, and popularize the best achievements of global theatre and enhance the status of theatre in society.
The festival featured theatre companies from Kazakhstan, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.
Distinguished guests of the festival included renowned theatre and film actors, state prize winners, and People's Artists of the USSR and Kazakhstan Asanali Ashimov and Tungyshbai Zhamankulov, and Altyngul Nurbekova, Head of the Theatre Arts Department of the Culture Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The jury included Erkebay Anar Saimzhankyzy, Professor of the Kazakh National University of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov, theatre scholar, PhD in Art History, and Chairman of the Association of Theatre Critics of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Theater critic, candidate of art history, associate professor, chairman of the Association of Theater Critics of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Mұқan Amangeldі Orazbayұly; professor, theater critic, doctor of art history, member of the Association of Theater Critics of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Nұrpeyіs Baқyt Kәkiқyzy; Honored figure of Kazakhstan – Bakhtygereev Beybіt Salauatұly; theater critic, cultural figure of the Russian Federation – Kuznetsova Evgeniya Borisovna.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/kostanay/press/news/details/1081593?lang=kk