Lightwave Theatre Company

Lightwave Theatre is a Romanian independent visual theatre company specialized in human-size puppet shows for adults. In more then 10 years of activity so far, Lightwave has been selected to step on national and international stages in Great Britain, Croatia, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria and many other with a portfolio which includes many theatre plays. Regarding public TV appearances, Lightwave Theatre has boldly approached the Romanian public at Romania’s Got Talent in 2015, receiving a Golden Buzzer, and also the German one as finalist at Die Puppenstars talent show. In 2020, they auditioned on America's Got Talent receiving three Yeses out of three from Simon, Sofia and Howie. Heidi was absent due to Covid suspicions.

In 2013, Cristina-Andreea Ion founded Lightwave Theatre and imagined a visual theatre company with shows for the adult public, an unexplored Romanian artistic niche for independent companies. Petru Stratulat, a radio presenter from Bucharest, embraced the idea and together launched the company with one puppet on many TV shows, bringing the art of human-size puppetry for adults in front of millions.

Lightwave Theatre toured Romania and a few European countries performing on stage, and had the courage to appear on many talent shows. One of them, Die Puppenstars, is specialized in puppetry and it’s a great honor for the company to have had the privilege to perform as finalists ranking in top 10 next to incredibly big puppet companies from all over the world.

“We are stepping in uncharted territory of the Romanian artistic landscape, carving our own path”