All staff of the Azerbaijan National Academic Drama Theater will be dismissed on December 30, said the Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Adalat Veliyev, APA agency reports.

He said that the creative and technical staffs will officially lose their jobs. “The theater reforms will be continued. The employment contest will be announced for the National Academic Drama Theater. Actors from all theaters will participate in this contest. We believe this process will contribute to  development of the theater,” Veliyev stressed, adding honorary system would be implemented for the directors soon.