There is no dearth of theatre options in Delhi NCR. There are many venues in Delhi to watch plays. Here is a list of theatre halls where the best plays in Delhi are staged. They all create a vibrant theatre culture in Delhi.
Love is in the air and theatre in Delhi has a new entrant – Raunaq & Jassi. Director Feroz Abbas Khan has made his rendition of Shakespeare’s love ballad Romeo and Juliet. Placing the story in Punjab, he has given the plot a local flavour starting from the name.
Bharat Rang Mahotsav is a unique opportunity to watch several plays by renowned directors, actors, and theatre groups from India and overseas.
Aadyam Theatre is in its 5th year of producations and has already staged a couple of plays in Delhi. Their latest presentation Mosambi Narangi is anything but about seasonal fruits. It does however have a sense of season in it. We watched this fun play last weekend at Kamani Auditorium and were in splits.
Dastangoi is the lost art of storytelling in Urdu. The Dastangoi Summer Festival 2019, organised by Dastangoi Collective, at Akshara Theatre was held between 11 to 13 July, 2019 and ran full houses.
‘Night, Mother, a play directed by Vamika Sachar, has been adapted from a Pulitzer prizewinning drama by Marsha Norman. It deals with some difficult issues that we face, directly or vicariously. Given the heavy topic of the play, we were skeptical about the treatment. All we knew was that we had to watch it.
14th Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META), 2019 concluded with a grand awards night. Kamani Auditorium was full to the brim with META team, META jury, actors and theatre lovers to watch this annual extravaganza. The event had a star studded setting what with luminaries from the field of theatre coming together for the love of the art. Ila Arun, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sushma Seth, Swaroopa Ghosh and many other thespians were on the Red Carpet for the META finale.
Mahindra Excellence Theatre Festival 2019 (META) is on in full swing and we are happy to have collaborated in this fantastic event. META is a competition and we had watched one of contenders, “Bhagi Hui Ladkiyan” at American Centre a while back. This play is directed by Dhwani Vij and is produced by Aagaz Theatre Trust, New Delhi. This piece definitely calls for a review.
Amidst deafening war-cry, Artists Unite spreads peace with cultural event at Red Fort, featuring slogans like “Make Chai Not War”. Fans of the initiative! ☮️🎨
It’s that time of the year that we wait with baited breath. Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM) – The International Theatre Festival of India is being held from 01- 21 February 2019 at the auditoriums of National School of Drama (NSD) as well as Kamani, Shriram and LTG Auditoriums. It’s a unique opportunity to watch several plays by renowned directors, actors and theatre groups from India and overseas.
While recently released Bohemian Rhapsody is still running in cinema halls, we watched a musical play based on the band Queen and its famous lead singer with Indian roots, Freddie Mercury. The musical play was organised to spread awareness on cervical cancer.
Radhashtami – the divine Consort Radha’s birthday was celebrated last weekend mainly in Barsana and Vrindavan. We landed up celebrating this event dramatically. We watched Samantak Teerth, a play based on the life of Shri Krishna. Staged by Adadyantara and scripted and directed by Dr. Madhuri Subodh, the venue was LTG Auditorium.
Aadyam is back with their 2018 season and the first presentation in Delhi was a Hindi comedy play Nau Do Gyarah. The play was a production by The Company Theatre and directed by Atul Kumar. Given that the plot was a comedy murder mystery, we really didn’t know what to expect.
Celebrity plays in Delhi have their own fan following. It is not difficult to guess why. They are professional, meticulous and full on entertainment. Wrong Number, directed by Raman Kumar and presented by Felicity Group oozes celebrity quotient. For one, actor Tanaaz Karim has never looked prettier in real. It is one laugh riot and we are smiling while typing this review.
Thespian Pankaj Kapur has planned a selection of plays on dreams and the first in this series, Dreamz Sehar, was recently staged at Siri Fort, New Delhi. The theme had us all excited and we had to watch Sehar. But we were not alone in our dream journey. Serpentine queues at the Siri Fort entry that evening proved that we had enough co-passengers sharing our aspirations.
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