Arts & Culture

‘Theatre Is Still Alive’

by NewsdeskINTERVIEWLITE BLOGSTheatreDecember 7, 2020December 7, 2020

Actress Shruti Vyas, who is the star of Zee Theatre’s latest teleplay ‘Some Times’, looks back at a year of unexpected challenges for cinema and theatre professionals and says that…

‘Recorded plays can never pretend to be theatre’

by NewsdeskBollywoodLITE BLOGSTheatreNovember 30, 2020November 30, 2020

Film and theatre actor-director Rajat Kapoor, whose rendition of Shakespeare’s comedy ‘As You Like It’ will soon premiere as a digital play with Aadyam’s Digital Edition in December, said that…

Boosting The Morale Of Theatre Fraternity

by NewsdeskEventsLITE BLOGSTheatreNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival, India’s biggest privately-run theatre festival, will be held in an abridged form over a single weekend this month. The Festival, featuring five plays, will…

‘Digitizing theatre helps reach new audiences’

by NewsdeskBollywoodINTERVIEWLITE BLOGSTheatreOctober 30, 2020October 30, 2020

Film and theater actor and director, Makarand Deshpande, feels that digitizing theatre helps reach new audiences and helps archive it as well. ‘Sir Sir Sarla’, a play written and directed…

‘Shernaz Notes This As The Tough Time For Theatre’

by NewsdeskArts & CultureLITE BLOGSTheatreOctober 13, 2020October 13, 2020

As auditoriums lay vacant, members of the theatre community struggle to make ends meet, and audiences are snatched off of a popular form of art and entertainment, digital theatre is…

Sarita’s Manthras To Defeat Lethargy

by Asian Lite NewsdeskArts & CultureINTERVIEWSeptember 20, 2020

Padma Shri recipient Sarita Joshi is a celebrated stage, television and film actress. The veteran of Gujarati theatre and Marathi theatre and Marathi cinema, believes that “Hard work, honesty and…

Savya Jain Derives Inspiration From Nature

by Asian Lite NewsdeskArts & CultureLITE BLOGSSeptember 18, 2020

With humans locked-in their homes over the past few months, what ran free were nature’s brushstrokes – deepening the sky’s blue, the trees’ green and all the colours in between….

‘The Discomfort of Evening’ bags 2020 Int’l Booker Prize

by admin-Top NewsBooksAugust 28, 2020August 28, 2020

‘The Discomfort of Evening’, the debut novel written by 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, has been announced as the winner of The…

Tale Of Wall Arts

by adminArts & CultureFEATURELITE BLOGSAugust 24, 2020

Painting stories of local communities of cities of Uttar Pradesh on a ‘donated wall’, a new art initiative is bringing together public art, talented artists and socio-cultural ethos to reimagine…

Triumphant Return To The World Of Twilight

by adminBooksAugust 17, 2020

The long-anticipated retelling of ‘Twilight’ from Edward Cullen’s point of view, bestselling author Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Midnight Sun’ has been launched, amid the author having caught the Coronavirus. The author has…