Mapping Mumbai’s Alternative Performance Spaces
This week’s Girish Karnad tribute at Veda Factory — Hayavadana, reimagined by eight young...
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Vikram Phukan
Sangeet Natak: Live and Kicking
Nehru Center’s Mahotsav is one of many efforts that continues to keep traditional...
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Anirudh Nair’s Exploratory Theatrical Style
One of India’s emergent theatre-makers, and also a young veteran when it comes to acting legs, the...
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“Dance Me to The End of Love” by Mahesh Dattani: Romance for the Millennial Era
Hidden within the body of work playwright Mahesh Dattani is usually cited for, is an underrated...
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Bade Miyan Deewane: the Enduring Laugh Riot
Still going strong at more than 80 shows in roughly ten years is Rangbaaz’s Bade Miyan Deewane, an...
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Confronting Consumerism: How “Under Pressure” Tackles Climate Change
Their annual pilgrimages to Mumbai have perhaps already introduced theatre aficionados to Visual...
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Remembering Girish Karnad
For the theatre world, the passing of Girish Karnad has been nothing short of a giant tree...
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ArtNowThus Presents “The Mad Tea Party”
ArtNowThus, the intriguingly named new theatre group that is the brainchild of Ragini Singh...
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Vijaydan Detha’s Stories of Feminine Agency
The title of the Vijaydan Detha story, ‘Kenchuli’ literally means ‘the remains...
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Raamji Aayenge: When Beckett Met Valmiki
Playing at the ongoing Damu Kenkre Smriti Mahotsav tonight is a fairly new production directed by...
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“Hero Alom”: Shattering Frameworks of Beauty in Modern Indian Theatre
Writer-director, Mahesh Ruprao Ghodeswar’s Hero Alom pays homage to the mainstream cinema even...
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Demystifying The Religious Fountainhead
Marathi play, Avyahat has a cinematic sweep and a multi-layered narrative. The third generation of...
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Indian Musical Theatre: From Librettos To Grungy Indie
The term ‘musical theatre’ might conjure up visuals of the Broadway-style extravaganza and its...
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The Emerging Zeitgeist: Indian Theatre of the Moment
The nominations for this year’s Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) were formally...
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Sleuthing With Slingsby
Erich Kästner’s 90-year-old German novella Emil Und Die Detektive (Emil And The Detectives), a...
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“The Hindu” Notes On 2018 Indian Musicals
If broadsheets and banners are to be taken into account, this has been another fertile year for...
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For Whom Technology Tolls
For those of us that are perennially nostalgia bound—even for the sepia-tinted memories of the...
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Foibles Of Upper-Class Philanderers
The irreverent stage persona of Naseeruddin Shah, cocking a snook at societal mores and...
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Art In Astrophysics: Science in Indian Theatre
For some years now, Mumbai-based theatre practitioner Jyoti Dogra has been regaling audiences in...
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“Bali”: Between The Heroic And The Iniquitous
Long awaited by theatre aficionados in the city, a rousing new physical theatre production by the...
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