This interview was aired on August 26, 2015 on NPR’s Forum with Michael Krasny Silicon Valley’s Naatak Theater Company Celebrates 20 Years Since 1995, Naatak has been staging plays in the South Bay. The theater company identifies itself as the “largest Indian theater in the U.S.” Its latest musical production, “Vrindavan,” takes a closer look […]
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This article was published on July 21, 2015 by We have just been anointed by the San Jose Mercury News Readers’ Choice Awards as “Best Live Theater” in Silicon Valley for 2015. Read it again – that’s not Best Desi Theater, or Best Indian American Theater, but Best Live Theater, period. Thank you Mercury News.
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This article was published on July 18, 2015 by ‘Best Live Theater’ in Silicon Valley Receives Knight Foundation Grant By Sonia Waraich SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Shortly after being named the “Best Live Theater” in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Mercury News, the Naatak theater company was awarded a grant of $30,000 from the
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This article was published on June 24, 2015 by Rabbit Hole – Naatak’s 49th Production By Divya Mehta 20th year is indeed shaping great for USA’s Biggest South Asian Drama Company Naatak. The choice of plays they made for this year has been distinct, yet equally experimentive. In their 49th production they have proved the
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This article was published on June 16, 2015 by Dealing with Grief Over a Son’s Loss By Archana Asthana We have all been touched by tragedy in some way, directly or indirectly, in our lives…a death in the family is the worst kind….when that death involves an innocent child, it is even worse, and when
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This article was published on March 29, 2015 by Hilarious `Taming of the Shrew’ in Hindi By Archana Asthana To sum purush, na mo sum- nari (No man like you, no woman like me) (The Taming of the Shrew): a Hindi adaptation No wonder the title did not resonate when I first heard about the
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This article was published on March 25, 2015 by Naatak Stages Hindi Adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ By Darshana V. Nadkarni, Special to India-West San Jose, Calif. — How to make a comedy written in 1590 come alive in 2015? Actually that is not even the full challenge tackled in Naatak’s Indian adaptation
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This article was published on March 1st 2015 by Art or Activism By Sujit Saraf [dropcap]In 2004, I staged a play that spoofed the Bhagavad Gita. Having studied the Gita closely for years, it had occurred to me that its subtle argument had been clothed in a theism that was completely unnecessary. I set out
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This article was published on March 12, 2015 by Naatak Stages Hindi Adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ By Manish Sabu San Jose, Calif. — Naatak, one of America’s biggest Indian American theater companies, is opening its 20th season with “To Sam Purush Na Mo Sam Naari,” a Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy classic
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This article was published on February 26th 2015 by Theatre Group Offers Connection for Booming Indian Population By Shwanika Narayan [dropcap]It wasn’t until the mid 1990’s when Sujit Saraf found himself in America as a Ph.D. student, that he thought back longingly to his theatre days in college in India. [/dropcap] He remembers being in
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