A Johns Hopkins University senior and her faculty advisor, actor and theater arts professor John Astin, are offering the community the chance to see something unusual: a one-night only performance of ...

Kutiyattam, Sanskrit theatre, which is practised in the province of Kerala, is one of India's oldest living theatrical traditions. Originating more than 2,000 years ago, Kutiyattam represents a ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 11 () Malayalam actress and known classical dancer Manju Warrier is set to foray into the world of theatre by enacting the iconic character of Shakuntala in the Sanskrit play ...

India is among few countries to boast of an ancient theatre tradition. Many scholars suggest that Indian theatre originated from the Vedas. A B Keith provides evidence from Rigveda, where the ...

For centuries Western theatre scholars and art-theorists, with the exception of a few, identified temple-centred performing arts as close reflections of Indian spiritualism. In the latter half of the ...

The teenage student was readying for a performance when she thought of an addition to the costume: wear a pyjama beneath the frilled clothing extending till the toes. In the greenroom, Kalamandalam ...

It was passion for Sanskrit that made Dr. V. Raghavan start Samskrita Ranga, theatre group, on November 16, 1958. That was only a formal announcement he made because he had been producing plays for ...

One of the prime disciples of dance legend T Balasaraswati, Chennai-based dancer Nandini Ramani is an illustrious torchbearer of the former’s tradition. Back in Chennai after a whirlwind tour of the ...