Circle Mirror Transformation is an exciting new play by playwright Annie Baker about 5 people from different walks of life and an improv drama class that they are all part of. Over the course of the six week class, the participants engage in many silly-looking exercises – speaking in gibberish, mirroring each other’s goofy actions, forming “statues” of people or objects, etc. The […]
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(By Srikar Srinath on Feb 16, 2017 to mark the 21st anniversary of Naatak’s first show ever – It was our first play Khaamosh Adaalat Zaaree Hai. Staged on Feb 16, 1996 in Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto) I went to the second Naatak audition at Stanford. Sanjay (Rajagopalan) and (Sujit) Saraf were there and a
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(By Sujit Saraf on Feb 16, 2017 to mark the 21st anniversary of Naatak’s first show ever – It was our first play Khaamosh Adaalat Zaaree Hai. Staged on Feb 16, 1996 in Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto) I remember the dates very well. Auditions on Dec 2, 1995 in Gamble Lounge, International House (my dorm
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This article was published on December 10, 2016 by Television-Radio-Film-Theater (TRFT) News, San Jose State University By San Jose State University Silicon Valley high tech business leader Vikas Dhurka had always wanted to learn screenwriting, so he signed up for Professor Scott Sublett’s online screenwriting class through Open University. Vikas wrote a hilarious (and autobiographical)
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This article was published on January 6, 2017 by Harish Agastya, with Naatak House theater, has been selected by the Cupertino Fine Arts Commission as Distinguished Artist of the Year. Naatak, which was founded in 1995 in Santa Clara, is the Bay Area’s first Indian American theater company. The company is now on its 56th
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This article was published on December 4, 2016 by To Travel Hopefully Focus on Naatak Mela’16: Five short plays in five different Indian languages By Kyle Adler Last night I was privileged to be invited by Naatak, America’s preeminent Indian theater company, to shoot their annual festival of short plays, Mela ’16. I’m a loyal
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This article was published on December 4, 2016 on For All Events Mela’16 – Five one-act plays in Indian Languages By Victor Cordell Let’s say that you’re a married man. You find poems which suggest that your wife is having an affair. When confronting her suspected paramour, he indicates at one time that the wife
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This article was published on September 21, 2016 on Theatrius Close Encounters of the Indian Kind at Cubberley Theater By Susan Dunn Beautiful voices burst forth suddenly, a brilliant clarion call. Exotic instruments twang out a beat. And brightly costumed Indian dancers charm, tease, and mimic characters who, one by one, take the stage in
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This article was published on September 17, 2016 by Bay Area Plays Saraf blends two political worlds in Naatak’s ‘Mr. India’ By David John Chavez The crowded marketplace of Delhi, India is the backdrop for “Mr. India,” the story of a simple tea seller’s unlikely rise to power. (Naatak photo) A simple tea seller. It
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“I always caution my friends never to thrust a microphone in front of someone who comes from the performing arts – every speech is a performance. That is why they cut the audio out after 2 minutes in the Oscar awards. I will try in spite of myself to keep this brief. The last time
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