Tamil contemporary theatre in the city sees a promising resurgence as new faces debut on stage with fresh scripts and creative ideas. Centrestage, under the spotlight, sits a corpse. It is n…
The Little Theatre is set to unleash two years of pent-up creativity in its returning edition of The Little Festival, with workshops, South Korean theatre, local favourites and more. What ch…
Theatre veteran PC Ramakrishna turns author with Find Your Voice, a guide on how to navigate a career as a voice professional You do not need to see PC Ramakrisha to recognise him. You ju…
At Adishakti Theatre's Remembering Veenapani festival, a clowning troupe from Uruguay explains how simple scripts can inspire powerful performances. If the slow afternoons in Adishakti Theat…
The Madras Players' Trinity, filmed by a four-camera set up, will be made available for a global audience in June. In 2020, the celebrated trinity of Carnatic music "Thyagaraja Swamy, Muthus…
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 charac…
Adishakti Theatre Arts' latest musical, Bhoomi, is adapted from Sarah Joseph's Malayalam play Bhoomirakshasam. What happens when polar opposites collide? When differing perspectives, particu…
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 charac…
Adishakti Theatre Arts' latest musical, Bhoomi, is adapted from Sarah Joseph's Malayalam play, Bhoomirakshasam What happens when polar opposites collide? When differing perspectives, particu…
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. When thespian Girish Karnad made his friend readÃ…
Redemption Room, an experiential horror-thriller theatre performance by New York-based Secret Theatre, is set to premiere in India. It is not unusual to lose oneself in a particularly intrig…
The Mahabharata's Shakuntala and Dushyant find themselves in a modern-day setting, addressing the same old conflict, in this play by Isheeta Ganguly. For anyone who has had an Indian upbring…
Through a series of virtual performances and conversations, Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts adapts movement and dance to the online medium. "When we started out, we were perplexed. We d…
Actor and artistic director Atul Kumar speaks on the need to experiment with 'form' to make theatre more engaging A woman haunted by insomnia, a djinn, and a hallucinatory mind during …
Actor Shernaz Patel speaks about supervising the transition of theatre to benefit an online audience at Aadyam, and what this shift means to the art form's future Shernaz Patel holds on to t…
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? Actors wait with bated breath …
ArtsLab explores the phenomenon of 'light' in its first module through theatre, art, music, and dance. Light reflects and refracts; it creates drama and gives birth to shadows. Textbook defi…
The play imagines an encounter between composer, Benjamin Britten, and poet, WH Auden. Picturing a meeting between two of the greatest artists of the 20th Century " Benjamin Britten, the com…
From play-readings and performances on Facebook live to apps that access playscripts, the online space is giving theatre lovers in the city the much-needed antidote to these grim days. Who w…
Animal characters are protagonists in Crea-Shakthi's latest take on The Ramayana. Nala and Nila, the former credited as the engineer of the Rama Sethu (bridge), and the latter, the vanara…
From Reunion Island to India, this play explores freedom and history. A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in India. He is all alone i…
A young boy from Nepal snatched away from his home in the Himalayas, now lives in a big slum in India. He is all alone in the world, in his small, stifling room, confined and miserable. He t…