‘It has the power to provoke’: Theatre director Sunil Shanbag on the dilemma the medium faces today

Githa Hariharan

· Nov 12, 2024 · 08:30 am

Parsi theatre: How female impersonators controlled the female body and its representation on stage

Kathryn Hansen

· Apr 25, 2024 · 08:30 am

Biography: When theatre director Ebrahim Alkazi turned the terrace of his home into an auditorium

Amal Allana

· Mar 26, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘No such thing as Mumbai theatre’: Writer Shanta Gokhale on the language divide on the stage

Shanta Gokhale

· Mar 17, 2024 · 08:30 am

In Habib Tanvir’s plays, folk music always had the starring role

Malini Nair

· Dec 16, 2023 · 11:30 am

How Naya Theatre captured India’s hearts and imagination

Sameera Iyengar

· Oct 22, 2023 · 11:30 am

In a play on Godse, lessons on the dangers of extremism

Amrita Ajay

· Oct 08, 2023 · 09:00 am

Partition-era Bengal is the setting of a new theatrical adaptation of Dickens’s ‘Great Expectations’

Ankhi Mukherjee, The Conversation

· Oct 04, 2023 · 12:30 pm

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