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Swatantra Theatre’s ongoing four-day online live children’s theatre festival till January 10

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

Shreyas Talpade

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Shreyas Talpade set to unveil Nine Rāsā in January 2021

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

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Mike Muthu on adapting ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’

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

Divya Gopinath’s solo play has been included in the eight-day online theatre festival organised by Nireeksha women’s theatre

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

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

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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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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

Girish Raghunath Karnad, veteran playwright, actor, filmmaker, and theatre personality, passed away on June 10, 2019.

Girish Karnad: life in pictures

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

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

Yakshagana artiste dies while performing on stage

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Shreyas Talpade set to unveil Nine Rāsā in January 2021

Mike Muthu on adapting ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’

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

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

Registrations open for Thespo 22 digital youth theatre festival

The festival for aspiring theatre actors under 25 will be held between December 16 and 20 this year

Catch ‘The Importance of Failing Fabulously!’ live online

The play talks about failure in a much more celebratory manner, says director Badarivishal Kinhal

Kerala’s ‘Tholpavakoothu’ in a modern avatar in a music video

The use of Kerala’s traditional puppetry in a music video by director Emcy Joseph throws open a world of possibilities for the art form

Paresh Rawal to head National School of Drama

His experience would help artistes and students, says Union Culture Minister

Digital national theatre festival in memory of a critic

Prayogam Theatre Group pays tribute to senior journalist GLN Murthy and hopes to engage the audience with different content

Mangai and her theatre of liberation

Veteran theatre person Mangai, who turns 60 this year, says that the word ‘survival’ describes her oeuvre best

Bengaluru’s Theatre For Change hosts play reading to raise funds for cancer patients

Theatre for Change in association with Rotary Orion Gateway will host a rehearsed reading of Vijay Padaki's Headstart on September 5 online

Theatre in a COVID-19 world: The rise of new formats

As live play performances and readings crowd virtual platforms, theatre is going through a ‘dramatic’ shift from stage to screen. Are new formats here to stay?

Manto’s musings on Partition

Sutradhar theatre group will present a live dramatised reading of Sadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Siyaah Haashiye’ on August 14

Ebrahim Alkazi: A tribute from his daughter

Ebrahim Alkazi (1925-2020) let work coexist with his family life, because for him, art was life

Bangalore Little Theatre’s digital series kicks off on August 8 with Arundhati Raja

Let’s Talk Art is a series of public engagements and will feature people from different artistic fields

Rangashankara gears up to face a new theatre world

Arundhati Nag, founder of Bengaluru’s famous Rangashankara, talks of how the intangible wealth of amateur theatre can survive the lockdown

Theatre doyen Ebrahim Alkazi passes away at 94

He was the longest-serving director of the National School of Drama

Sound is making waves on the theatre front

Theatre artistes’ collective uploads audio dramas on YouTube, Facebook

Samarpana’s initiatives for folk arts and artistes

Conversations, performances and workshops — social media accounts of arts organisations are buzzing with activity. However, popular classical art

A poetic call to remain humane

Art Cross Theatre Main is presenting a collection of poems online in the hopes they will rekindle feelings of benevolence among mankind

Kalanilayam’s drama ‘Hidimbi’ to stream live on August 1

The play is presented in English by Gayathri Govind who essays the titular character

This children’s play from Seoul narrates the Korean legend of ‘Choon Hyang’

One of the show’s highlights is its costume design — the elaborate Korean traditional costumes are made out of hanji paper. It will be available to stream on July 30

Watch a rehearsed reading of murder mystery ‘Three Candles for the Dead’ on July 26

The reading is being presented under Bangalore Little Theatre’s New Voices programme

Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: William Shakespeare

QTP’s ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ takes to the digital medium as a live storytelling performance

‘Every Brilliant Thing’ is an interactive performance that initiates conversations around hope and coping together while dealing with the topic of mental health

Join the HandleBards as they take on Romeo and Juliet on July 18

Join the HandleBards in a live streaming event held in association with Imbroglio Productions on July 18. Actors Lucy, Tom, and Paul will explore the

Storyboard Productions’ virtual play reading: What’s the ‘Good Answer’

Hyderabad-based Storyboard Productions brings a virtual play reading on July 25 and 26

Venu’s Navarasa Sadhana workshop goes online

A look at the origins of the 15-day course in Kerala’s Irinjalakuda that teaches performers to dig deep inside to emote

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