Dipanita Nath

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

Hindi poet Sudhanshu Firdaus on his first volume, to be published by Sahitya Akademi, and why writing nature poetry is a political act

A think tank in Delhi brings traditional skills of India into a progressive and viable economic structure

Tamil poet Manushya Puthiran on eating meat with Mahatma Gandhi and demonetisation

Using the Gurmukhi script as a launchpad, an exhibition in Delhi explores salient features of the Punjabi culture.

Is Sohaila Kapur’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery, Appointment with Death, more than a gripping entertainer?

Poet Ashok Vajpeyi on Vak, India’s first biennale of poetry, which begins today

The fate of the environment hangs in the balance as lawyers and artists argue a case before Justice Yatindra Singh in Zuleikha Chaudhari’s courtroom drama, Landscape as Evidence

Stalwarts of Indian classical music share their memories of Kishori Amonkar

Divya Arora, who is confined to a wheelchair, on playing romantic leads in theatre and her latest role as an upbeat and enigmatic psychiatrist in Dr Khanna.

Nikhil Mehta watched plays in Delhi and dreamed of Broadway. The theatre director is now a part of Broadway musical, Sunday In The Park With George.

Deepan Sivaraman’s ambitious production, The Legends of Khasak travels to Jaipur this weekend. A look at the unusual actors who make up the cast of the play

Subhadeep Guha on soul-searching for Understanding Macbeth and why politics interests him

The theatre of Manipuri legend Heisnam Kanhailal found its fullest expression through the performance of his wife Heisnam Sabitri, a towering personality by herself. With the passing of Kanhailal in October last year, the legacy now rests entirely on her. A look at her journey and at the future of their group, Kalakshetra Manipur.

The play Ganapati, directed by the late Veenapani Chawla, highlights the importance of dissent in Indian tradition.

Yuki Ellias reworks the Ganpati myth in Elephant in the Room and wins the META for Best Actor (Female).