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Meet Uma Paranjpe who plays the first female Pi in ‘The Life of Pi’ on Broadway. She headlines a big Broadway show in her debut performance.
Monsoon Wedding comes to the stage at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn – the hottest Indian wedding of the year created by Mira Nair
With so many hot spots bubbling over around the world and with so many international tragedies taking place, Afghanistan is not always in the front and center of our minds. Now suddenly it’s right here with us, right in Times Square, as close as a seat in a Broadway theater – with its sounds, griefs and struggles enveloping us.
‘The Kite Runner’, one of the most popular novels about Afghanistan, is now on Broadway, playing at the Helen Hayes Theater through October.
It entailed a helicopter ride from Washington, secret service personnel and caused traffic jams in New York but in spite of all these hassles, the most powerful man in the world, President Barack Obama, still made it to a Broadway show, ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’, right in the heart of Times Square. As he told reporters, “I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished.”
Such is the lure of Broadway, that all-American icon of theater!
India is often the silver thread woven into some of the beautiful designer gowns – and the 2018 Tony Awards at the Radio City Music Hall was no exception. Here you see noted Broadway actress Kelli O’ Hara, star of ‘The King and I’ at the 2018 Tony Awards wearing a gorgeous Bibhu Mohapatra outfit which had a definite touch of India.
If all the world is a stage, then who better to tell the story of the ongoing drama of Indian immigration and Diaspora tales than playwrights? For years insightful writers from Africa to the UK to Canada have been documenting the stories of those who left the homeland for uncharted territories, and now some of them gathered in New York to share their experiences.
Playwright Ayub Khan-Din is an astute chronicler of the new Britain where south Asians are very much a part of the cultural landscape