Celebrating National Street Theatre Day

Safdar Hashmi (12 April 1954 – 2 January 1989) was a communist playwright and director, best known for hi...

Power Of The Printed Word

Poster, by Dr. Shankar Shesh, a social satire about the exploitation of tribals, remains relevant nearly forty years after it was written, and is a great favourite...

‘Every Third Minute’: A Festival with a Difference

Every Third Minute, West Yorkshire Playhouse

According to Alzheimer.org, there are ...

Power of Imagination

There is no limit to where the imagination can go, and some the best children’s books encourage this ability. As people grow up, reali...

Is Love Enough?

The synopsis of the play Bas… Tum Aur Hum, asks a very important question: If marriages are made in heaven what is it that keeps them going on Earth?<...

The Stage and the Stree

Theatre has been one of the longest-practiced forms of art in India- from age-old bards, to soliloquizing protagonists, to dance-dramas, it has always been a crucial part o...

Papa Don’t Preach

What would happen if two cantankerous, cricket-crazy men, one from India and the other from Pakistan were forced to share an apartment?  Bedlam, that’s what.

An Ordinary Heroine: Mary Jane Review

Plays whose subjects can be summed up in one word—abortion, divorce, Trump—are prone to be preachy. They needn’t be, though, and Amy Herzog’s &ldquo...

New Computers Can Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge, Experts Warn

“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind,” wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634. But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that ca...