The aggression on the Line of Control has taken a toll on performing arts now with curtains being drawn on plays to be performed by Pakistani artists just hours before starting. ...
11:59 AM, Jan 19, 2013
A group of artistes from Pakistan headed home on Friday after two plays by its theatre groups at the ongoing Bharat Rang Mahotsav at National School of Drama (NSD) in New Delhi were cancelled amid the recent flare-up of tensions between the two countries. ...
05:34 PM, Jan 18, 2013
New Delhi: There is a sense of subdued tension inside the auditorium at the National School of Drama (NSD) as director Faisal Alkazi takes his crew of 45 differently-abled children through their final rehearsal. The little actors through their play 'Dastan-e-Dilli' give a kaleidoscopic view of the national capital's mythical and revolutionary past. From adolescent Krishna's cheeky antics to Razia Sultan's splendour, leading up to Mangal Pandey's inspiring legend -...
08:58 AM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: A repertoire of 82 plays from across the world, three photographic exhibitions, live theatre projects, an Asia-Pacific theatre showcase and new media theatre will be on display at the 13th edition of the Bharat Rang Mahotsav, the annual theatre festival of the National School of Drama (NSD), from Jan 7-22. The festival will travel to Chennai Jan 11-19 after opening in the capital Jan 7. Vying for space...
11:37 AM, Jan 05, 2011
The festival will showcase 63 plays from different countries. ...
11:08 PM, Jan 07, 2009
London: Essex has signed South Africa pace bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe as the English county's overseas player for the first part of the season. The left-arm seamer missed the county championship season opener against Kent on Friday, but he is set to make his debut against Middlesex next week. Essex head coach Paul Grayson says Tsotsobe "offers variation and we hope he will make a big impact for the start of...
08:09 PM, Jan 13, 2008
New Delhi: India's top order batsmen will need to find an effective counter to Australia's fast bowlers in Thursday's World Cup quarter-finals if they are to sustain a billion dreams. There is every possibility that Australia would unleash a three-pronged pace attack in Ahmedabad to exploit India's perennial weakness against the fast, rising deliveries that was so cruelly exposed in Chennai on Sunday even by the modest pace of West...
08:03 PM, Jan 05, 2008
With the opening of Bharat Rang Mahotsav theatre festival, one would think that all theatre lovers would only be running in that direction. But that's not the case. ...
01:45 PM, Jan 08, 2007
The National School of Drama's two-week long annual theatre fest began with zest in Delhi on Saturday. ...
03:52 PM, Jan 07, 2007
