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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