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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’

Chennai’s theatre circle has a new entrant as RumourMill Theatre Company launches online

The company hopes to elevate online theatre skills among enthusiasts

Murder mystery over a zoom call: WeMove Theatre’s game with professional actors

WeMove Theatre’s newly devised game, using elements of theatre, is paying them dividends during the pandemic

Theatre group works on new play during lockdown

The creation will seek to re-evaluate rape and the politics of power

Bhagavata Mela loses its star

Melattur S. Natarajan enriched the art form with his artistry and refinements

Swatantra Theatre’s focus on mental health

Pune-based theatre group releases a documentary to mark World Mental Health Day on October 10

Play on tribal and farmer communities selected for Indonesian-Indian theatre fest

Bengaluru group Art Cross Theatre Main’s ‘Hum, Bharat Ke Log’ is among the eight plays at the festival

Koodiyattam’s dramatic transition

The ancient theatre form’s online experiments are bringing in more viewers but also throwing up new challenges

Will theatre go back to the open?

As Agnipankh is televised, Mita Vashisht reflects on the shifts in theatre due to the pandemic

Short film ‘I am Enough’ deals with issue of self acceptance

Psychologist turned filmmaker Sujatha Balakrishnan talks about ‘I Am Enough” which deals with comparison and the need for self validation

A Kerala family’s weekend play dates

Every Sunday, from April 5, 2020 Sudhakaran Vellangallore has been writing, directing, acting, staging and uploading plays

Mohit Takalkar’s play ‘The Colour of Loss’, to be staged digitally on October 2

The play originally written by Booker prize winner Han Kang is a story of finding beauty in loss

A courtroom drama on Zoom

A jury drama devised by Chennai-based theatre company Dramact will unfold on a Zoom screen this weekend

Mumbai’s The Company Theatre finds innovative ways to navigate theatre digitally

Actor and artistic director Atul Kumar speaks on the need to experiment with ‘form’ to make theatre more engaging

National School of Drama prepares for first production with pandemic protocols

Spaced out seating and actors armed with negative COVID-19 test results are some of them

Shernaz Patel on the changing landscape of theatre from stage to screen

Actor Shernaz Patel speaks about supervising the transition of theatre to benefit an online audience at Aadyam, and what this shift means to the artform’s future

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