Theater had been a feature of the Yemeni culture. Theater, as historians depict it, began as a means of carrying out religious rituals. It was also closed due to religious beliefs. Yemen knew all religions, from paganism and nature worship to Islam. One of its main cultural institutions was theater.
History records that Yemen had witnessed one of the greatest of the ancient civilizations.
Although those civilizations were wiped out, they left valuable traces which made their greatness stick in history. Literature, with all its genres, especially theater, had always been a representative of those civilizations. In Ashorian and Babeli civilizations, we find a simple foundation of literary development. There are some ruins of places for acting out performances which we may simply call theaters. The Yemeni civilization buried under the ground is a brings many questions.