Jazz can be described in many ways – a JAZZY musical extravaganza with sterling performances and mellifluous music, a musical paean to the unsung musicians in Bollywood who work behind the scenes to compose some of the most memorable songs, or simply, a musical journey of an old man taking a trip down the memory lane. Whatever the description may go like, it will certainly appeal to the fastidious ears of a theatre critic or a music connoisseur, with its satirical wit, uncompromising conviction, and alluring music score.

Ouch! is an aptly named play. A laugh riot on the surface with a Generation-X centric theme of dreams and aspirations, it makes you go Ouch – for the simple reason that as much as it tickles your ribs with its dark, sarcastic and occasionally slapstick humor, it also pinches you to sit up and take notice of how, in our efforts to build thousands of dreams, we are eroding equally important million others as we strive to achieve fame, money and power at the cost of personal fulfillment.

They meet at random public places, make sweet and striking conversations, keep you gripped and thinking (all in half an hour) and go back- with each of them and each of us, feeling more free and resolved than before.
Gowri Ramanaryan’s Water Lilies is an inspiration of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (which is a compilation of [...]

What a delightful end to the weekend! Although the play is an adaptation of a French play set in the 1700s, the Indian flavor is as scrumptious as the French delicacy, served on a platter of witty dialogues, accomplished ensemble, and brilliant screenplay, which just goes on to show how a relatively simple story can [...]

Many plays in India are either commendable renditions of famous American Broadway shows or just plain knock-offs. This one is somewhere between the two; leaning more towards cheap knock-off side though.
The original play, and the Indian version I witnessed, are about the perennial conflicts between the sexes. A struggling (and yet to become) writer Felix [...]