Monday, July 6, 2020
In 1971, in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance — one in which the ‘site’ in question encompassed a dozen rooftops over a roughly ten-block area — was s…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:32AMTuesday, May 5, 2020
Steadily gathering supporters online is a crowd-funding campaign that trains its specific energies on a frequently overlooked segment of India’s vast marginalized populace: artists and art…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:37AMMonday, April 20, 2020
One unexpected casualty of these beleaguered times is a relatively young arts organization that had only recently celebrated its eighth anniversary on February 29 (and because that’s leap …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:54PMSaturday, April 11, 2020
While it can never really supplant the vibrancy and vividness of live, in-the-flesh theatre, the showcasing of performing arts in the digital space has expectedly received a fillip over the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:35AMMonday, April 6, 2020
Sudhanva Deshpande’s book, Halla Bol remembers the legendary theatremaker and activist through a series of events that recall his life’s worth. A book tour with a difference is currently…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:09AMMonday, March 30, 2020
For ensemble pieces in theatre, where actors never once leave the stage, what becomes all-important are the transitions between scenes — how the action, settings and mood segue in transfor…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:54PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
In the play, Colors of Trans 2.0, when the transgender performer Living Smile Vidya bares her surgically reconfigured body in a moment of aching vulnerability, it induces gasps from onlook…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:14PMMonday, February 17, 2020
For fans of the whodunit as gradually unfolding conundrum rather than mere build-up to a climactic masterstroke, an Indian reboot of a British play based on the 1962 Agatha Christie novel, …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:29PMMonday, January 27, 2020
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in women’s welfare and left behind a mark few could rival. Although widely acknowledged as a d…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:30AMMonday, January 20, 2020
This year the stage threw up apostles of hope aplenty, whose quiet energy and presence allowed us to re-imagine our own lives in the sheer privacy afforded by a seat in a darkened auditorium…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:30AMSunday, December 15, 2019
An emerging sidelight at the annual Prithvi Theatre Festival is its selection of fringe offerings that are usually showcased at Prithvi House, a first-floor assembly space in the residential…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:08AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Anubha Fatehpuria will act out a miscellany of women characters, spanning more than a century in Pieces. Once again, in recent weeks, the free-thinking Virginia Woolf provides grist for the …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 03:02AMMonday, December 2, 2019
The legendary Habba Khatoun comes to life in Purva Naresh’s Zoon, a play that attempts to give ordinary Kashmiris a voice, says Vikram Phukan. Circa 1989, as the errant flames of an inchoa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:04AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Piyush Mishra’s Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter’s ideology of universal brotherhood, anarchism, atheism and fierce patriotism. The shenanigans of the past wee…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:58PM 
