Dipanita Nath

A high-society beauty from England, who led the Zeme Nagas of the Northeast during World War II, inspires a new play Ursula: Queen of the Jungle

Chef Tommy Miah, a newly-minted MBE, on spicing up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with street food from the Indian subcontinent

A play on the travails of a ganja in India will have its Delhi premiere this weekend

Directed by Akarsh Khurana, Bayan comprised casual vignettes from women’s lives

After his short story was adapted into the film, A Death in the Gunj, Mukul Sharma is planning to publish a compendium of his works.

Under the shadow of the right wing, an artist receives a surprise guest in Sudhanva Deshpande’s play, Bahut Raat Ho Chali Hai

Actor Maya Krishna Rao’s work comes from the gut. That also brings her fiery protest theatre to the streets. But she also wants to keep our sense of humour alive.

Dilip Gupta dug into his memories of watching launda naach in Bihar to create the play, Netua, about gender, caste exploitation and a dying art

Theatre director Rajesh Bali revisits a popular thriller, Arsenic and Old Lace.

Bangalore-based theatre director Abhishek Majumdar says he was unaware of the magnitude of cyber trafficking until his group, Indian Ensemble, began working on this play. The director had shifted to Bangalore in 2004, around the time that Arundhati Nag’s Ranga Shankara opened. He had then enrolled at a theatre workshop by Mahesh Dattani.

Tom Alter performs Gandhi as “a man with an impish sense of humour” in the play, Mohan Se Mahatma.

What happens when tigers are forced into human territory? Krishnendu Bose investigates in his National Award-winning film

Three boys run away with the ashes of their dead friend. The play Anand Express chronicles a journey that is fun and poignant.

Pune-based theatre director Mohit Takalkar, winner of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar, on the illness that drives his work and gives his life direction.

Suzanne Millar, the director of the play, says Jatinga is a woman-led project, one that has a woman writer, woman director, woman producers, a largely women's cast, and it tries to tell the often unheard stories of five young women. The play is a part of a larger initiative to provoke social change.

Actor Saksham Shukla on bringing alive good, bad and ugly characters on stage by exploring versatile genres ranging from Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, history and mythology at Delhi's Shri Ram Centre.

An exhibition in Delhi frames faces from Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka to mark World Refugee Day

Playwright Purva Naresh on Jatinga, runaway girls, suicidal birds and a surreal train journey.

For those familiar with Kalashetra Manipur, Theatre of the Earth comes as a tribute; for those who have not watched a Kanhailal-Sabitri play, it is a glimpse of two astute performers. The film provides the dots; the audience will need to join these with their own emotions and experiences.

Asmita is celebrating its 25th year with an annual theatre festival on till July 28, a range of workshops, and their latest play, Hindu Code Bill.

At Moolchand Parantha, night turns to day as visitors flock for their favourite goodies.

In a month of exam results, a new play explores success and failure through the story of an IAS topper from Bihar.

Veteran hairstylist Habib Ahmed reveals the long and short of it in a biography

Swati Mohan creates an immersive performance piece, Mindspace, about the body’s most complex system.

Lipika Singh Darai’s National Award-winning film is about childhood adventures and the price of development.

Purva Naresh seeks to bring alive two musical traditions — nautanki theatre and baithak singing — through her new play, Bandish 20-20000Hz.

South African performer, writer and social activist, Xabiso Vili is slamming out explosive poetry on his tour of India

Film and TV stars to play the dramatis personae in one of Delhi’s biggest Ramlilas

A web series, Mothers and Daughters, investigates a confounding relationship.

Summer holidays call for a change of scene, which is just what theatre workshops promise to city children and young adults.

A circus freak show is at the centre of Futureproof, a play that questions perfection and beauty and explores ideas of normal and strange

Did you know that the world’s only living tower is hidden inside Delhi? For the first time, you may enter the building — during an immersive theatre experience by Crow, titled A Tall Tale

As his play, A Walk in the Woods, opens the first Delhi Theatre Festival, Naseeruddin Shah talks about India, Pakistan and peace.

The exhibition is on at the Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) in Gurgaon till April 28.

The second Zohra Segal Festival of the Arts brings together the diva’s multiple interests, from theatre and dance to films