February 2-3, 2018 in 3400 Main St, Houston TX February 10, 2018 in Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose. February 11, 2018 in Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto Sukanya Chakrabarti, Actor Written by: Mahesh Dattani. Directed by: Lillette Dubey. From the Facebook Event page (link)… GAUHAR traces the story of one of India’s first mass media superstars at the turn of the last century! An Armenian Christian who later converted to Islam, Gauhar Jaan was a naturally gifted musician with a wide repertoire. One of the earliest women artists who seized the…
Chitra, The Warrior Princess
May 8, 2015, Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto Singer in EnActe’s Chitra Dance Drama From Chitra’s website (link)… In honor of his birth anniversary, EnActe honors Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore with a new re-imagining of his acclaimed work Chitra, based on an episode in the Mahabharata. Theatre meets dance as Director Ranjita Chakravarty draws from Tagore’s 1895 one-act Chitra and his 1936 dance-drama Chitrangada to create the spell-binding tale of Chitra, Princess of Manipur. Born to a King promised only male heirs and raised as a male warrior, a chance meeting…