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Actor and author Aditya Rawal most recently featured in the play As Bees in Honey Drown and Faraaz, directed by Anahita Uberoi and  Hansal Mehta respectively. But if experience are any indication, he is far from a newcomer. Son of actor…

Shakespeare’s Hamlet has long attracted a proliferation of interpretations, an ever-expanding Punnett square of possibilities. Last summer, New York alone offered three fresh takes: a modern-dress version by Robert Icke at the Park Avenue…

You’ve written other films, but Baby Ruby is the first feature that you directed. Why did you need to direct this film?I think because the story felt so personal, and I felt like I knew so deeply what I wanted the story to be. It wasn’t…

Celebrated British author and playwright Hanif Kureishi has said he is in hospital unable to move his arms or legs, after suffering a fall in Rome.Kureishi, 68, who is best known for works such as The Mother and The Buddha Of…

The singular and incendiary talent of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is on rich display this season in three world premieres—Plays for the Plague Year at Joe’s Pub, The Harder They Come at the Public this winter, and Sally & Tom at the…

Written by By Scottie Andrew, CNNCharles Fuller, the acclaimed playwright best known for his Pulitzer winner, "A Soldier's Play," has died. He was 83. Fuller's younger son, David Fuller, confirmed his death to the Hollywood Reporter.A…

Indeed, certain elements of the play came from Toossi’s life: One character “is based on one of my best friends and things that she has said to me and the horrible ways I’ve responded to her,” she says with a laugh. “And then the…

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTH AND DEATH ANNIVERSARY: English playwright William Shakespeare is believed to have been born and died on same day: April 23. Shakespeare is widely renowned for the collection of plays. His plays are timeless and…

MADRID — For Yunior García, a Cuban playwright, the swift journey from activism in Havana to exile in Madrid might have been lifted from one of his scripts.It began with the decapitated pigeons at his doorstep, placed there, he suspects, by…

Acclaimed Halifax playwright Hannah Moscovitch was waiting for a routine call from her doctor when she picked up the phone and instead learned she'd been chosen for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards. "They got, like, a…