The 14th University Students' Theater Festival is to open in Tehran on March 6 with the participation of 58 theatrical groups. Saeid Kashen Fallah, the secretary of the festival, in a press conference on Monday said that some 47 plays will take part in specialized and non-specialized competition sections of the festival. Meanwhile, he added that two plays will be staged in the Imam Ali (AS) Section and nine plays in the sideline section of the festival. Referring to the remarkable qualitative and quantitative growth in the University Students' Festival, Fallah said that some 282 plays were reviewed last year, adding that this amount increased to 476 plays this year. He emphasized that only students of theater will take part in the Specialized Section of the festival, adding that students of other fields will take part in the Non-Specialized Section of the festival. The secretary of the festival announced that the plays will be staged in Molavi, Farabi and Honar Halls as well as two halls in the University of Fine Arts and Al-Ghadir Hall.