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Nishumbita’s theatre festival ‘Natotsav’ all set to roll on December 18

Ram Mohan Holagundi directs seven plays spanning diverse themes and also acts on stage after a decade

Dance Like a Man keeps time to inherent family tunes

Sindhu Nagaraj The classic play ‘Dance Like a Man’ captures the subtle undertones found in familial relationships

Alaknanda Samarth was among one of the first Indian students to study with the now celebrated global star Anthony Hopkins.

Tribute Alaknanda Samarth pushed the limits of ‘safe’ theatre

Rustom Bharucha She believed that if we did not reach a point of breakdown with our voice and body, we were simply wasting our time doing theatre

A still from the play

Ventures Theatre’s latest play ‘The Note’ is a howdunnit murder mystery

Praveen Sudevan Susanto Banerjee's new play, The Note, seeks not just to thrill its audience but also to make them ponder about human behaviour

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From Margazhi, a theatre Nisha production

A play that traces the life of a dancer

Lakshmi Anand Theatre Nisha’s play Margazhi is a candid portrayal of the people and situations a Bharatanatyam artiste encounters

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

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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

Watch | The Big Fat Company shows us theatre comes in all shapes and sizes

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Sevanthi Prasanga: Mind your language, desi style

Nishumbita’s theatre festival ‘Natotsav’ all set to roll on December 18

Dance Like a Man keeps time to inherent family tunes

Tribute Theatre

Alaknanda Samarth pushed the limits of ‘safe’ theatre

Ventures Theatre’s latest play ‘The Note’ is a howdunnit murder mystery

Voice of women on stage

Telugu play ‘Rallu Etthani Coolielu’ is a satire on the modern day corrupt times

Adapted from the Hindi play, ‘Taj Mahal ka Tender’, the play shows what would happen if Shah Jahan were to build the Taj Mahal in 2021

Nireeksha Women’s Theatre group develops short stories by nine women writers as radio plays

The drama series is an initiative for She Radio on Radio Malayalam, the online radio of Malayalam Mission, Government of Kerala

Dante meets Bharatanatyain this experimental theatre performance at Ranga Shankara

Italian theatre director Anna Dora Dorno talks about her project ‘Dante Beyond Borders’

Towering musical theatre master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91

Sondheim influenced several generations of theater songwriters, particularly with such landmark musicals as “Company,” “Follies” and “Sweeney Todd,”

Mellow Circle’s Christmas play is back. Here are the details

Titled ‘The First Christmas’, the two-hour production by Michael Muthu has a 32 member cast and 30 choristers

A play for children discusses human-animal conflict

‘Gajam’, produced by Kochi-based Rasa Theatre Collective, is one of the entries at the ThinkArts International Festival For Young Audiences 2021

Y. Gee. Mahendra’s UAA celebrates a milestone

Y. Gee. Mahendra’s theatre group UAA enters its 70th year with a new play, Charukesi

Appavin Aasai: An iconic children’s play

As another Children’s Day comes up, a look at one of the earliest Tamil plays for children, T.K. Shanmugam’s Appavin Aasai, with a young Kamal Haasan in the lead

What is Theatre of the Oppressed? Artiste and activist Sanjoy Ganguly explains

Sanjoy Ganguly, pioneer of Theatre of the Oppressed in the country, was recently in Chennai for a workshop with SCARF India

All-women drama group goes online

Due to the challenges posed by the pandemic, Mahalakshmi Ladies Drama Group has adapted to new challenges

Stagecraft Theatre zooms in on life with their online play

Bengaluru-based theatre troupe Stagecraft talk about their upcoming event, Zoomed In!

Ranga Shankar’s digital collaboration with Belfast International Arts Festival goes live this Sunday

As part of its 17th anniversary celebrations Ranga Shankara in association with Belfast International Arts Festival, presents leading theatre and

A play that traces the life of a dancer

Theatre Nisha’s play Margazhi is a candid portrayal of the people and situations a Bharatanatyam artiste encounters

Exploring the diverse performance traditions of the Ramayana

A new book situates modern Ramayana renditions within the secular context of contemporary Indian theatre

Interactive performance ‘Marks’ by Abheesh Sasidharan and team is staged as homage to British architect Laurie Baker

Marks was staged in collaboration with the School of Drama of Calicut University on the Aranattukara campus near Thrissur in Kerala from October 4 to 8

Women take centre stage at Kattaikkuttu Sangam

Kattaikkuttu Sangam’s new play, Tavam, breaks new ground with an all-woman cast

Remembering Komal Swaminathan, whose plays focused on social issues

Tracing Komal Swaminathan’s journey as his troupe Stage Friends completes 50 years

The Deomali theatre festival turns a tribal town into a stage

A young couple’s vision has put the remote district of Koraput on the country’s theatre map

The history of Golconda on stage

Hyderabad’s Nishumbita group to stage ‘Golakonda’ that merges puppetry, Kuchipudi and theatre

A Hyderabad staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy ‘Table Manners’

Storyboard Productions to stage Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘Table Manners’ on September 25 and 26. The dark comedy is a satire on the middle-class and their ideologies

A play inspired by Bharati’s verses

How S.V. Sahasranamam’s stage adaptation of the poet’s Panchali Sabadham became a huge success

Broadway, shut due to COVID-19 pandemic, reopens with three mega-hit shows

The audience cheered on as Wicked, The Lion King and Hamilton were back at the theatre.

Kerala-based Rangachetana theatre group initiates a unique project to help artists in need

The Thrissur-based collective has been organising performances in the homes of artists and streaming them live on Facebook to raise funds

The play ‘A Strange Quartet’ gives short takes on stereotypes

Produced by Hyderabad-based Storyboard Productions, the play is the directorial debut of advertisement professional and theatre actor Akshay Kokala

Breaking gender stereotypes through stories

Meet Fouzia, the new, strong voice in the male-dominated world of Dastangoi

MCC students’ street play pays homage to late professor, P Rajani

‘Idhu Vaaliba Vayasu’ is also a tribute to the youth who volunteered during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Mahatma and the Nawab’s Tamil plays

Gandhi’s influence on the Tamil theatre veteran, Nawab Rajamanickam Pillai, resulted in a unique scene staged on August 15, 1947

Students to put up a unique theatre show at the University of Hyderabad

For their Actors Individual Performance Project, the budding theatre artists from University of Hyderabad hope to focus on the opportunities than the limitations created due to the pandemic

NSD to hold 3-day festival with theme of independence struggle

Plays would be staged to showcase the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi, Kasturba Gandhi and others.

The bond between music and Tamil theatre

The early and mid-20th century saw several interesting associations between the worlds of Carnatic music and Tamil theatre

Nelliyode redefined the Kathakali characters he brought alive on stage

Kathakali maestro Nelliyode Vasudevan Namboodiri was a consummate performer, academic and guru. He invested negative characters in Kathakali with a new intensity and depth

Indian puppets perform to Mozart and Puccini compositions

Traditional Indian puppets perform Western classical pieces in ‘A Timeless Tale of the Turbulent Twosome,’ a show by vocalist Maya Bajaj of KM Music Conservatory

Hyderabad theatre groups gear up for a live performance with caution

Amid fears of a third wave, the artistes move on keeping an eye on the numbers

Veteran theatreperson Thankam Vasudevan Nair’s birth centenary falls today

Thankam Vasudevan Nair was one of the early stars of the drama and music scene of Kerala

Kottakkal Sivaraman redefined the female role in Kathakali

In his 60-year-long career, Kottakkal Sivaraman claimed a rightful place for the female characters in Kathakali. The thespian’s death anniversary was on July 19

The need to recycle forms the core of this Korean non-verbal play

‘Junk Clown’, a Korean play for children, brings the concept of recycling to the table through mime

Royal Shakespeare Company opens garden theatre by River Avon

The garden theatre can sit 500 people — or 310 with social distancing.

Meet all the king’s men in Prahllad Natak

A more than 100-year-old theatre tradition called Prahllad Natak will die out unless the government steps in and keeps it going

Girish Karnad — a life at play

Aesthete, intellectual, restless storyteller. Looking back at Girish Karnad in the light of his newly released memoirs

The need to save the oldest Sanskrit theatre

With few practitioners and fewer resources Koodiyattam faces an uncertain future

Mohammad Ali Baig on playing diverse roles on stage and digital screen

The Hyderabad-based theatre personality played a hippie sporting ear studs and a nose ring in the web series ‘In The Name of God’

National School of Drama to hold interviews for Director post

Previous panel of names set aside

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