Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:57AMFriday, July 15, 2022
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:35AMMonday, June 20, 2022
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:07PMFriday, May 13, 2022
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 Adishakt…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:42PMWednesday, June 2, 2021
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:07PMSunday, May 16, 2021
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 God…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:17PMMonday, May 3, 2021
Adishakti Theatre Arts’ latest musical, Bhoomi, is adapted from Sarah Joseph’s Malayalam play Bhoomirakshasam. What happens when polar opposites collide? When differing perspec…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:49AMMonday, April 19, 2021
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 God…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:34AMFriday, April 16, 2021
Adishakti Theatre Arts’ latest musical, Bhoomi, is adapted from Sarah Joseph’s Malayalam play, Bhoomirakshasam What happens when polar opposites collide? When differing perspec…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:14AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
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 hi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:46AMMonday, March 1, 2021
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:22AMSunday, February 21, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:13PMMonday, January 18, 2021
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:21AMMonday, October 19, 2020
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:52AMTuesday, October 13, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:43AMMonday, August 24, 2020
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 …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 08:42PMMonday, July 27, 2020
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. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:27PMMonday, June 29, 2020
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, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:16AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:12AMMonday, December 30, 2019
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, theÂ�…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:52AMSunday, December 8, 2019
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:37PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
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…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:33AM 
