Mapping Mumbai’s Alternative Performance Spaces
This week’s Girish Karnad tribute at Veda Factory — Hayavadana, reimagined by eight young...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 13th Aug 2019 | India, News
This week’s Girish Karnad tribute at Veda Factory — Hayavadana, reimagined by eight young...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Aug 2019 | Festivals, India, News
Nehru Center’s Mahotsav is one of many efforts that continues to keep traditional...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 7th Aug 2019 | India, News, Producing
One of India’s emergent theatre-makers, and also a young veteran when it comes to acting legs, the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 5th Aug 2019 | India, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review
Hidden within the body of work playwright Mahesh Dattani is usually cited for, is an underrated...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 29th Jul 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Art
Still going strong at more than 80 shows in roughly ten years is Rangbaaz’s Bade Miyan Deewane, an...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 10th Jul 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Science
Their annual pilgrimages to Mumbai have perhaps already introduced theatre aficionados to Visual...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 24th Jun 2019 | India, News, Playwriting
For the theatre world, the passing of Girish Karnad has been nothing short of a giant tree...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 18th Jun 2019 | Immersive Theatre, India, Review
ArtNowThus, the intriguingly named new theatre group that is the brainchild of Ragini Singh...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 17th Jun 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Gender
The title of the Vijaydan Detha story, ‘Kenchuli’ literally means ‘the remains...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 22nd May 2019 | Acting, Immersive Theatre, India, Review
Playing at the ongoing Damu Kenkre Smriti Mahotsav tonight is a fairly new production directed by...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 20th May 2019 | Acting, India, Review, Translation
Writer-director, Mahesh Ruprao Ghodeswar’s Hero Alom pays homage to the mainstream cinema even...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 3rd May 2019 | Adaptation, India, Review
Marathi play, Avyahat has a cinematic sweep and a multi-layered narrative. The third generation of...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 9th Apr 2019 | India, Musical Theatre, News
The term ‘musical theatre’ might conjure up visuals of the Broadway-style extravaganza and its...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 4th Mar 2019 | Festivals, News, Worldwide
The nominations for this year’s Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) were formally...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 29th Jan 2019 | Adaptation, India, News
Erich Kästner’s 90-year-old German novella Emil Und Die Detektive (Emil And The Detectives), a...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 15th Jan 2019 | India, Musical Theatre, Review
If broadsheets and banners are to be taken into account, this has been another fertile year for...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 1st Jan 2019 | India, Review, Transmedia
For those of us that are perennially nostalgia bound—even for the sepia-tinted memories of the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 31st Dec 2018 | India, Review, Translation
The irreverent stage persona of Naseeruddin Shah, cocking a snook at societal mores and...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 19th Dec 2018 | Acting, India, Review, Theatre and Science
For some years now, Mumbai-based theatre practitioner Jyoti Dogra has been regaling audiences in...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 28th Nov 2018 | Directing, Festivals, India
Long awaited by theatre aficionados in the city, a rousing new physical theatre production by the...
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A Theatre Of Boredom And Theatrical Distrust (André… by S.E. Gontarski 4th December 2025
Dostoevsky on Stage. “The Mutt” by Anoushka… by Vassili Schedrin 7th December 2025 

The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… by Lisa Monde 29th October 2025 
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… by Jenny Strataki 6th August 2025
James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… by Aleks Sierz 30th September 2025
The 12th Dangdai Xiao Juchang Xiqu Jie (Contemporary… by Xunnan Li And Yuan Du 2nd December 2025 