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Previous panel of names set aside

Munawar Faruqui has been entertaining audiences with his satire routines for over a year. Photo: Special Arrangement/THE HINDU

Laughter challenger: Munawar Faruqui finds humour in life against all odds

Nahla Nainar Out on bail, the stand-up comedian is dusting himself off and moving on, strengthened by poetry and rap music

A theatre group from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, is staging a play on Clubhouse

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Theatre group from Kerala to present a play on Clubhouse

Athira M The play, ‘Lakshadeepam’, will be staged on Clubhouse by Kanal Samskarika Vedhi on May 30

Stills from ‘The Farewell’ by Nishumbita, Hyderabad

Without a single word, this mime act urges you to stay home during the pandemic

Prabalika M. Borah Mime act ‘The Farewell’ urges people to stay home and safe during the new Coronavirus pandemic wave

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Blending Bundelkhandi art forms: A scene from “Saadhu Aur Sundari”

Celebration of theatre

Diwan Singh Bajeli At the five-day Bikaner Theatre Festival, varied themes and styles entertained the audience

Evoking nostalgia: Danish Iqbal

Know your Ghalib from Danish Iqbal

S. RAVI Danish Iqbal’s “Dastan-e-Ghalib” combines prose and poetry to highlight the multifaceted personality of the people’s poet

Familiar concerns: A scene from the engrossing play

K.S. Rajendran’s ‘Ghosts’ explores human relations

Diwan Singh Bajeli Directed by K.S. Rajendran, “Ghosts” explores the moral dilemmas of a dysfunctional family

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In December, Kalakshetra also played host to their annual festival and sold tickets at 50% occupancy. At the Bharata Kalakshetra auditorium, director Revathy Ramachandran recently wrapped up the two-day Trinity Festival, which was streamed online too.

Curtains up: Chennai gets back onstage

The Big Fat Company (BFC) was founded in Bangalore by Anuradha H.R. in 2017

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Assam’s 500-year-old theatre tradition

Laughter challenger: Munawar Faruqui finds humour in life against all odds

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Malayalam theatre heads to Clubhouse for new forms of storytelling

Gurcharan Singh Channi’s theatre for social change

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COVID-19: Contemporary artistes help folk performers across Tamil Nadu through the second wave

Carnatic music marries theatre in The Madras Players’ ‘Trinity’, set to reach a global audience

The Madras Players’ ‘Trinity’, filmed by a four-camera set up, will be made available for a global audience in June

The play ‘Demo’ recreates a virtual meet-up

The online performance depicts marriage rituals and interactions in the digital world with a touch of humour

Without a single word, this act urges you to stay home during the pandemic

The mime ‘The Farewell’ urges people to stay home and safe during the new Coronavirus pandemic wave

Indian-origin author, playwright Ronnie Govender passes away in South Africa

He died in Cape Town following age-related ailments.

Child actors of Swatantra Theatre bring Dadasaheb Phalke on stage

The play to be staged on April 30 and May 1 is based on the life of the father of Indian cinema

‘This is my name’ : Godse’s claims of being a patriot

A new play that explores one horrific moment in the past to raise unsettling questions about the future

Shreyas Talpade: ‘I felt when everything is going online, why not theatre’

Actor Shreyas Talpade launches Nine Rasa, an OTT channel for theatre

Like a babushka doll: A review of ‘Bhoomi’, Adishakti’s new play

Layer by layer, the play shifts planes, changing mood and tone, throwing up questions that demand answers, problems that demand a solution

Mallika Prasad’s solo piece explores what lies beyond the frame of a ‘picture-perfect’ post

‘Hidden in Plain Sight,’ a solo digital performance addresses issues of loneliness, isolation and mental well-being

Abhishek Majumdar’s play Desdemona Rupakam is a mix of Shakespeare, feminism and traditional art

The play, featuring musicians MD Pallavi and Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy, will be staged in Ranga Shankara on April 10 and 11

Adishakti Theatre Arts’ latest musical turns the lens on sexual assault and power politics at the workplace

Adishakti Theatre Arts’ latest musical, ‘Bhoomi’, is adapted from Sarah Joseph’s Malayalam play, ‘Bhoomirakshasam’

Pregnant Father: An idea well-conceived

Vibha Rani’s stinging satire won the Nemichandra Jain Playwriting Award this year

A play adapted from Paul Zacharia’s ‘Ithanente Peru’ puts Nathuram Godse under the spotlight

Chennai-based theatre director Prasanna Ramaswamy’s new play, ‘This Is My Name’, is an adaptation of Paul Zacharia’s Malayalam novella ‘Ithanente Peru’ that interprets Nathuram Godse as a character

This iconic Hyderabad family theatre group is taking an online streaming route

Theatre group, Sri Venkateswara Surabhi Theatre, Hyderabad, is moving online with a month-long programme

Sthaayi theatre brings out its latest Tamil play 'Hayavadana' in Coimbatore

The play is directed by Thirunavakkarasu and is a tribute to Girish Karnad and BV Karanth

‘Chenchu Lakshmi’, a Telangana Chindu Yakshaganam takes centrestage

‘Chenchu Lakshmi’ directed by Srinivas Denchanala and Chindula Shyam will be staged on March 23 at Ravindra Bharathi in Hyderabad

How dancer Anuradha Venkataraman interpreted Dante through the ‘Mahabharata’

Sometimes East can meet West as VIDEODANTE a dance production by Instabili Vaganti proves

‘A Zoom Call Re:Birds’ is theatre group Indian Ensemble’s new experiment

The show from the Bengaluru theatre group combines theatrical and old-school radio programming elements

Chennai-based Theatre Nisha’s new play is inspired from Girish Karnad’s ‘Yayati’

Theatre Nisha’s first live play after a pandemic-induced hiatus of one year, ‘Arundhati’, is based on a monologue from Girish Karnad’s ‘Yayati’

The DOT Theatre is back in Coimbatore with its latest play, ‘Baksa’

Directed by Amrith Jayan, it talks about the struggle to overcome the conditioning of humans by society

International Women’s Day: Women of Bilal Bagh to take to the stage

They are part of the cast of Safdar Hashmi’s play Aurat staged by Theatre for Change

How the play ‘Anju Panch’ is all about making a difference

Theatre group Koothu-P-Pattarai’s recently-concluded children’s play based on the tales of Panchatantra, is a lesson in moral values

Bangalore theatre: Catch Rupesh Tillu’s Madbeth and Shakuntalam at Ranga Shankara

The plays by Rednose Entertainment from Mumbai will be staged on Saturday and Sunday

The story of Shakuntala and Dushyant set in contemporary times reaches Broadway

The Mahabharata’s Shakuntala and Dushyant find themselves in a modern day setting, addressing the same old conflict, in this play by Isheeta Ganguly

New York’s Secret Theatre brings an experiential horror-thriller play to India

‘Redemption Room’, an experiential horror-thriller theatre performance by New York-based Secret Theatre, is set to premiere in India

A puppet master with a chip in the brain

Leather puppets in the traditional Tholpavakkoothu are being animated by robots.

Soorya reaches out to budding artistes

He establishes a black box theatre which they can use free of cost

Keeping an art form alive

A group of artistes in Tirupathur have been performing and teaching ‘Theru Koothu’ for years.

Curtains up: Chennai gets back onstage

As audiences and artistes head back to performance spaces and offline events, a look at how the scene is shaping up in the city and elsewhere

Rangbhoomi Spaces is Hyderabad’s new cultural space

Theatre actor, director and founder of KissaGo Theatre Group Jay Jha speaks on the hardships faced to make the dream come true

A theatre, a people and peace

Each year, Bhadrak in Odisha sees a 250-year-old folk theatre called Mogal Tamasha bring Hindus and Muslims together on stage and in life

Kalidasa’s Vikramorvaseeyam on Koodiyattam stage

G. Venu brought alive the nuances of Kalidasa’s Vikramorvaseeyam at the recent Koodiyattam mahotsavam

Girish Karnad’s play ‘Broken Images’ to be staged in Coimbatore

The play is directed by Jayashree Murthy, founder director of Sthaayi School Of Theatre Arts and performed by Minakshi Vyas

Catch Aadyam’s comic revival of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ on January 9, 16, 17

The pre-recorded production, directed by film and theatre veteran Akash Khurana, will be streamed online

Swatantra Theatre’s online theatre festival sees kids take to the stage

Swatantra Theatre’s ongoing four-day online live children’s theatre festival tells stories of the famous funnyman in Urdu literature

Yakshagana artiste dies while performing on stage

The 58-year-old veteran Yakshagana artiste, Sadhu Kothari, died following heart attack while on stage in Shiriyara village near Kota of Udupi district

Shreyas Talpade set to unveil Nine Rāsā in January 2021

Shreyas Talpade hopes his new digital theatre initiative will create new opportunities for artistes and technicians

Mike Muthu on adapting ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’

Theatre director Mike Muthu on adapting the short story for a film format, and why he feels virtual plays defeat the purpose of theatre

Theatre group Nireeksha from Kerala capital organises an eight-day online theatre festival from December 25

The fête focusses on plays by women that highlight a woman’s perspective

Chennai’s new theatre group, The Art Factory, debuts with a virtual production

Chennai-based theatre group, The Art Factory, debuts with an anthology of Tamil and English short plays

A theatre school for those interested in exploring a career in arts

The six-month mentorship programme by the Indianostrum Open Theatre School is open to anyone interested in exploring a career in arts

Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundation's theatre festival set for a live comeback in Hyderabad

The courtyard of the iconic Moazzam Jahi Market plays host to the festival’s inaugural play ‘Quli: Dilon Ka Shahzada’

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