New Delhi, Tethered to their storytelling masters with strings, puppets from around the world will bring alive stories of childhood anxieties, friendship, hardships of life, hope, and generosity at ...

A few days ago I caught the latest production of Dance Like A Man, an English drama by the Sahitya Akademi Award winner Mahesh Dattani, adapted for stage by The Primetime Theatre Co’s Lillette Dubey. ...

Recipient of the Padma Shri honour and founder of The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust, which recently presented the 18th Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival, produced by Teamwork Productions in ...

Twenty years ago when the Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival was first held in Delhi, Dadi Pudumjee was sceptical if anyone would come to attend a ticketed puppetry performance. In the ...

“Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and many others. India belongs only to me,” — these lines by one of India’s visionary artists, Amrita Sher-Gil, embody her enigmatic life. Born in Budapest ...

Images of Truth, staged by the Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust in Cairo and Alexandria, provided an informative and adaptive experience on the ideology of India's iconic leader Enter a pitch-black Hanager ...

See various forms of puppetry at the Ishara International Puppet fest. When you think of puppets, the image of strings controlling their movements will surely come to your mind. But at the 10th ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival's 20th edition is scheduled to run from February 16 to 25 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi and Tagore ...

Day 5 of the ongoing Ishara International Puppet Festival in Gurgaon, presented by The Times of India, told stories of fairies descending on earth, while on Day 6, Parvaz Puppet Theatre Group from ...

There was a time when the word ‘puppets’ conjured up images of toy-like mythological characters handled by puppeteers, from behind a screen or above a box. This is not true of contemporary puppets.