Theatre

Shobana Jeyasingh awarded a CBE – crowning 30 years in dance; other arts & media New Year’s honours recipients – Nadiya Hussain, Nishma Gosrani and Jasvir Kaur Rababan

Choreographer, baker, diversity champ and musician among those named in today’s New Year’s Honours list… ONE OF BRITAIN’S most innovative…

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‘Three Pounds in My Pocket’ & ‘Partition Voices’ – BBC Radio 4’s Kavita Puri talks to acv as curtain about to fall on landmark series…

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster asserts history of Partition and Empire will become part of the routine telling of British history……

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‘Homing Birds’ – Exploring the notion of home and identity with writer Rukshana Ahmad as curtain about to fall on new play (tomorrow) …

Co-founder of Kali Theatre discusses her new play that is inspired by real-life stories from Afghanistan… By Suman Bhuchar TALKING…

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Jatinder Verma leaving Tara Arts – a personal perspective…

ACV’s deputy editor and head of theatre ruminates on a shock departure… By Suman Bhuchar THAT Jatinder Verma, artistic director…

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Riz Ahmed highest ranked arts personality in annual British Asian Power List 101…

The GG2 Power List 2020 is out… JUST over a third of the country’s most powerful Asians work in the…

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Bird Bites: Theatre – Anjana Vasan award nomination; ‘Life of Pi’ awards; Esh Alladi win; Women’s ‘Objections to war’; Black theatre Eclipse leadership changes; Madani Younis – Diversity in peril?; Michael Billington stepping down

ANJANA VASAN who was the star of the recent Tanika Gupta Ibsen adaptation of ‘A Doll’s House’ has been nominated…

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‘Ghost Quartet’ (review): Spirits lose force as they take on too much, but production has charm and quality…

by Momtaz Begum-Hossain Freewheeling musical has its merits but tries too hard to impress… CONCEPT-WISE, David Malloy’s ‘Ghost Quartet’ couldn’t…

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‘When the crows visit’ (review) – powerful play highlights price of both casual and brutal misogyny…

India may be the setting but there are universal truths in this… By Sailesh Ram DARK and intense, ‘When the…

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‘When the crows visit’ – playwright talks misogyny, power relations and morality as premiere hits London

How much conflict can there be between a son and a mother who knows her offspring has erred and seriously…

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Hanif Kureishi: ‘I want to write for the stage’ again says writer whose adaptation of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ continues to make impact with audiences coming to it again and afresh…

He started in the theatre but has more recently written essays, think pieces, novels and screenplays… ONE OF BRITAIN’S most…

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