 Among the young famous artists of the time there were Silvia Popovici, Valentino Dain, Melania Ursu, Valeria Seciu, George Motoi, Dorel Vişan, Anton Tauf.The directors that followed, Ion Vlad, Maia Ţipan-Kaufmann, Petre Bucşa, Constantin Cubleşan and Horia Bădescu, continued to try (and succeeded quite frequently) to avoid the Communist censorship by maintaining a balance between national and universal dramatic texts and between classical and modern elements.Famous artists of the time include Mihai Măniuţiu, Gelu Bogdan Ivaşcu, Maria Munteanu, Ileana Negru, Miriam Cuibus, Marius Bodochi, Petre Băcioiu, Dorin Andone.