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Theatre

This book explores how theatre enabled Parsis to negotiate the growing challenges of colonialism

Murali Ranganathan
· Aug 27, 2023 · 08:30 am
‘The Parsi Theatre’ is an important addition to the sparse information available on the matter

Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
· Aug 13, 2023 · 01:30 pm
This play by Cyrus Mistry records the travails of a Parsi family in a crumbling Mumbai mansion

Cyrus Mistry
· Jul 10, 2023 · 05:30 pm
The playwright who brought Godot to Kashmir

Safwat Zargar
· Feb 19, 2023 · 06:30 am
A new book examines Dalit women’s roles in the Tamasha and the brutality they endured for the form

Shailaja Paik
· Dec 20, 2022 · 08:30 am
When Premchand wrote a play about Islamic history to highlight communal tensions in 1900s’ India

Nishat Zaidi
· Dec 08, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘The Muslim Vanishes’: A play imagines the implications of a social and economic boycott of Muslims

Maaz Bin Bilal
· Apr 16, 2022 · 12:30 pm
Why the real problems that a theatre actress might face are not on the stage but outside it

Trina Nileena Banerjee
· Apr 15, 2022 · 08:30 am
How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English

Ramu Ramanathan
· Apr 03, 2022 · 12:30 pm
In this explosive fantasy by Saeed Naqvi, India is confronted with the disappearance of its Muslims

Saeed Naqvi
· Jan 28, 2022 · 08:30 am
Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021): Writing complex women was one of the musical legend’s big achievements

Narelle Yeo, The Conversation
· Nov 29, 2021 · 11:30 pm
Watch: Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomes audiences back to Broadway at reopening of ‘Hamiton’

Scroll Staff
· Sep 15, 2021 · 05:30 pm
How William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ is a play that speaks to pandemics past and present

Elizabeth Schafer, The Conversation
· Aug 03, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Watch: Here is the one-year lockdown story of London’s The Old Vic theatre

Scroll Staff
· Mar 17, 2021 · 10:58 am
‘Sylvia’: This experimental debut uses prose and poetry to present an enigmatic relationship

Maithreyi Karnoor
· Feb 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm
‘Betrayed By Hope’: A new play visits the life of poet and writer Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Namita Gokhale Malashri Lal
· Feb 02, 2021 · 08:30 am
Meet Kulsum Padamsee, the charismatic matriarch of one of Mumbai’s most storied families

Feisal Alkazi
· Jan 22, 2021 · 08:30 am
How a Victorian-era gadget set the stage for live-streaming 150 years ago

Natasha Kitcher, The Conversation
· Dec 01, 2020 · 11:30 pm
Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre

Souradeep Roy
· Jul 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia

Saikat Majumdar
· Jun 20, 2020 · 03:30 pm