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Welcome to the heavenly choral ensemble this #ChristmasEve #WildVoices at #AfghanChurch, Colaba, Mumbai on 24th Dec 2018from 10 pm onwards

#PicksAndPiquesHindiTheatreReview #BlindDate #JohnsonThomas #Sakaar #PrasadKhandekar #RamanKumar #PranavTripathi #HarshBadheka #JaySoni #ChestaBhagat #PritamSingh #GlocalCommunications #NikitaKamdar Play Title: Blind Date Rating: * * ½ Cast: Jay Soni, Cheshta Bhagat, Pritam Singh, Sanjay Bhatia, Ani Shah And Pranav Tripathi. Producer: Harsh Badheka Director: Prasad Khandekar Adaptation: Raman Kumar Presenter: Pranav Tripathi (A Sakaar Creation) A Drama about love and choices, this play is a comedy drama about Dhara(Chesta Bhagat) who returns from an independent International back-packing sojourn to pressure from her parents to get married to Nisarg(Jay Soni), an Engineer who has come down to India specially to design and build the Bullet Train. Sly asides regarding the commissioning of such an unwieldy project notwithstanding, the drama is concentrated around Dhara’s courtship with Nisarg and her eventual realisation that they both are incompatible in their thinking

#PicksAndPiquesTheatreReview2018 #TheatreCriticJohnsonThomas #TheSoundOfMusic #AceProductions #CreateFoundation #RodgersAndHammerstein #RaelPadamsee #AdvaitHazarat #KarlaSingh Cast: #ArunodaySingh, #MeherMistry, #KunalVijayakar, #MarianneDcruzAiman #HoshangKatrak Director: #AdvaitHazarat Associate Director: #KarlaSingh Rating: * * * ½ Venue: Tata Theatre, NCPA, Nariman Point Runtime: 120 + mins This much loved timeless, old-school musical made famous by the classic film and live performances in prestigious theatres across the globe, comes to the Mumbai stage in an ambitious amalgam of heavenly singing, nimble dancing and astonishing visual artistry. The musical compresses the tale of romance between the postulant Maria Ranier and the navy Captain Georg von Trapp, after which they escape from Nazi entrapment, with his seven children. It’s of course based on the real life ordeal of Von Trapp Family Singers. This latest stage adaptation has stacked the deck with impr

#PicksAndPiquesJulyTheatre2018 #TheatreCriticJohnsonThomas #Opera #HarpAndSopranaConcert #AMusicalMarriage Rating: * * */5 #GioacchinoRossini #IsabellaColbran #MariannaGubri #MariaChiaraPizzoli As part of the brand new Opera Season in Mumbai envisioned by #AvidLearning supported by the #ItalianEmbassy and #TheRoyalOperaHouse and performed by artistes from the #GivingVoiceSociety, the Harp and Soprano musical marriage concert was a one of a kind rare event that gave the rapt audience a glimpse of what was to come in the coming weeks. With #MariannaGubri plying her unique magic with the Harp and #MariaChiaraPizzoli performing classical lyrical arias created by Rossini and Colbran, it was a night of learning that took the yearning for the experience of an Opera to new heights. Their exploration of the rich and beautiful selected works from the classical repertoire for soprano and Harp had an incandescent fusion that was mellifluous as well as interesting. Their carefully chosen

Hindi-English Theatre Review Johnson Thomas Play: Dad’s Girlfriend Cast: Satyendra Malik, Suman Vaidya, Anumeha Jain, Karishma Singh Director: Atul Satya Koushik Writer: Atul Satya Koushik, Rating: * * ½ Playtime: 130 mins After a successful opening in Delhi, Atul Satya Koushik’s new play, a sitcom, ‘Dad’s Girlfriend’ opens in Mumbai to decent crowds. Staged by one of Delhi’s leading theatre groups, The Films and Theatre Society, and promoted by Kaushik’s frequent marketing collaborator Coconut Theatre, ‘Dads Girlfriend’ is an urban family drama that hopes to get you cackling with it’s frequent resort to slapstick. Written and directed by Atul Satya Koushik, this play which is daringly different from his largely mythological ( Chakravyuh, Draupadi, Raavan Ki Ramayan) oeuvre hopes to grab the eyeballs of millennia’s facing similar situations on the home-front. The writing though is a little too heavy-duty to be credited as an out and out comedy. There’s neither dep

#RaavanKiRamayan #EpicTheatreReview #TheatreCriticJohnsonThomas Rating: * * * 1/2 Coconut Theatre Takes the lead in presenting The Films and Theatre Society's relaunch of it's epic play “Raavan Ki Ramayan” in Mumbai on 5th may 2018. Director Atul Satya Koushik who has also written the script, delineates Raavan's viewpoint regarding the Ramayana.The Director who has always managed to get celebrities from films and TV to act in his plays manages to scoop out once famous cinema villain Punnet Issar from the obscurity of TV, to star in the titular role as the agonised and deeply pained Raavan who believes he has been wronged by Shiva, to whom he has been the most ardent devotee. The production may not have the lush majesty of the super successful #MughalEAzam but the emotive en-treatment cannot be denied. Raavan who most of us saw as the villain of the Ramayana, is the protagonist here.The play is his version of events that transpired and looks at why his

#GolmaalThePlay #ReviewByTheatreCriticJohnsonThomas Artists- #VinduDaraSingh, #RajeshPuri, #AkashdeepSabir, #SheebaSabir, #PayalGogaKapoor, #DeepshikhaNagpal, #LuckyHans, #SarthakJoshi Rating: * 1/2 Synopsis- As the very name suggests, a laugh riot, based on mistaken identities, is about an uneducated plumber who hits big time and upgrades his living style , but is unable to overcome his lower middle-class mindset. As a result the better educated servant of the house takes advantage of his unschooled behavior and makes merry in the household, resulting in chaos. The plumber's wife wants to admit her rogue son in an English medium School but the interview that the school teacher has scheduled with the family goes entirely haywire. The inquisitive neighbor adds to the GOLMAAL. Review A poorly scripted and shabbily constructed wannabe comedy drama, 'Golmaal The Play' has nothing much going for it. The acting is ridiculous, the acts are sloppy,Direction is inept, the