Dipanita Nath

The best kind of a teacher remains a student for life. Veteran theatre mentor Keval Arora on his Bollywood debut in Hansal Mehta's Omerta and why he wants to learn film-acting now.

Real stories of South Asian women in Wales and India, collected through an extensive R&D process, has led to a play, titled Sisters.

Sukracharya Rabha, a theatre personality who drew audiences from across the country to Assam, has died at 41. Actor Adil Hussain remembers a fellow artiste.

A new book provides a front-row view of theatre group Yatrik’s journey of half a century

Jaideep Ahlawat on his critically acclaimed performance in Raazi, and how he’s trying to look beyond the greyscale for his characters.

Since 2014, Tifli, an international theatre festival, has been overrun by thousands of children. Parents and schools in Delhi that wanted to give students a taste of the stage, found a safe bet in the plays staged at Tifli. This year, however, Tifli theatre fest has been cancelled.

This summer, experts from the stage take children through the fine points of becoming a theatre artiste

Actor Ashwath Bhatt on being a Kashmiri Pandit, playing a Pakistani army officer in Raazi, and his forthcoming documentary about the Valley.

For the past four years, Sumitran, 56, an executive coach, has been championing sourdough, a process of bread-making that goes back 5,000 years.

The 49-year-old is now a veteran of more than 75 productions, mostly in Malayalam, but also in English, Hindi and Kannada. He searches for protagonists on the margins and traces their struggles with conflicts of caste, class, gender or their own animal selves.

The Charles-Diana wedding, the witches of Macbeth and a royal curse make up the play Tom Alter was directing before he passed away

Film screenings, theatre, puppetry, folk music and dance to light up Zohra Sehgal’s 106th birth anniversary

Chapal Bhaduri, the legendary female impersonator of jatra, on being a man and several women, and #MeToo

Pakistani theatre director Madeeha Gauhar, who built cultural bridges with India, passes away in Lahore

"There is an audience sitting in front of you, who are not necessarily theatre experts. They want to be entertained, laugh, cry, or whatever, but go back with a happy feeling. I do my theatre for them. If an audience member does not like something in a play, I change it,"

A theatre performance in an unused basketball court sheds light on the underbelly of capitalism.

In 1989, the year theatre activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked during a street theatre performance in Delhi, his birthday, April 12, was observed as National Street Theatre Day. The Sahmat grounds spilled over with students and audience members of all ages to mark the 30th National Street Theatre Day.

Karuppu is a non-verbal dance drama, Karuppu is a study of the Dravidian cultural rituals depicting a universe that absorbs imbalances, making rebirth possible. Tickets, at Rs 100 onwards, available on Metawards.com and Bookmyshow.com

Feisal Alkazi on his new works, the women who occupy his imagination and studying the politics of family