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Kathputhli Colony puppeteers rehearsing scenes from ‘A Timeless Tale of the Turbulent Twosome.’

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

Kottakkal Sivaraman on stage

Kottakkal Sivaraman redefined the female role in Kathakali

Achuthan T K 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

A still from ‘Junk Clown’

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

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

Illustration: R. Rajesh

personality Girish Karnad — a life at play

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

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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

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

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Indian puppets perform to Mozart and Puccini compositions

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Hyderabad theatre groups gear up for a live performance with caution

Veteran theatreperson Thankam Vasudevan Nair’s birth centenary falls today

Kottakkal Sivaraman redefined the female role in Kathakali

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

Royal Shakespeare Company opens garden theatre by River Avon

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

Assam’s 500-year-old theatre tradition

Ankia Bhaona, a theatre form that blends classical and folk idioms, presents a unique dimension of Assamese culture

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

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

Malayalam theatre heads to Clubhouse for new forms of storytelling

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

Gurcharan Singh Channi’s theatre for social change

Remembering Gurcharan Singh Channi, whose work in community theatre reached out to the furthest margins

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

Contemporary performers, students and patrons step up to help folk artistes across Tamil Nadu, breaking barriers between artistic fraternities

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

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Chaos reigns: People queue up at the Attibele checkpost in Bengaluru on August 1, 2021.

29K | Travellers hit by Karnataka’s new COVID-19 norms

A tweet by Agnishwar Jayaprakash, founder of Chennai-based Garuda Aerospace, that caught SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s attention. Photo: Special Arrangement

17K | Elon Musk sends Chennai entrepreneur over the moon

A largely empty shopping center is seen during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore. File

13K | Singapore warns to cancel permit of permanent residents, pass holders not complying with COVID-19 safety measures

A doctor and other members of a home triage team of the Coimbatore Corporation coming out of a house on Friday after visiting a person who had tested positive.

12K | New restrictions in district from Monday as cases rise

BMW's two new micro-mobility vehicle concepts, an electrified bicycle and an e-scooter for city use. | Picture by special arrangement.

8K | Weekly Bytes | BMW’s cargo bike and e-scooter concepts, NASA picks SpaceX for Jupiter’s moon mission, and more

Residents queue up for COVID-19 testing in Zhengzhou.

7K | Coronavirus | WHO sounds alarm over Delta variant surge

Indian women celebrate after winning their hockey quarterfinals match against Australia at the Tokyo Olympics on August 2, 2021.

7K | Brave Indian women create history, enter Olympic hockey semifinals for first time

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6K | Dholavira | Ruins of an Indus Valley civilisation site

A replica of the Trojan horse made up of thousands of computer and mobile phone components infected with various viruses and malware, named the “Cyber Horse” is displayed at the Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv. File

6K | Pegasus row | CJI-led Bench to hear petition by N. Ram, Sashi Kumar on August 5