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Theatre development plays an important role in empowering the creative arts industry in Malaysia in line with technological advances. The MalaysianIndie Identity Theatrestudy in Malay Drama Stage Development is carried out to bring professionals, academics, practitioners and students from across the country to jointly foster the potential of participants in the creative industry. Indie Theatre is a new theatre genre that is evolving in the Malay drama stage. This has indirectly opened a new perspective on the concept of form and content in indie theatre performances. Hence, this study is to find out the form of indie theatre production that is able to attract the audience? The research was able to achieve two objectives, namelyto describe the form of Malaysian Indie theatre in the development of the Malay drama and to analyse the identity and contents of the Malaysian Indie theatre. The researcher conducted the study by interviewing four informants who are activists and academics in the theatre field. Subsequently, after analysing the data, the researcher unravelled the form and content with the Identity theory guide to build the identity of the Indie theatre production. The implication of this study is very important as it will guide the knowledge and opportunities to build new innovations in theatre field, add more references to the development of the postmodern Malay drama stage and can enhance the creative industry especially Indie theatre production in line with producing brilliant art practitioners on the basis of the creative industry of the country.

This study examines the difficulties faced by stage managers for online theatre in the creation of new norms. The nation's creative arts industry has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic's health danger. The financial crisis's long-term consequences on the sector are quite complicated. This study's goal is to examine the framework of stage manager difficulties in online theatre staging and provide conclusions on how online theatre helps stage managers adjust to new norms. The study's findings demonstrate that stage managers have significant difficulties when it comes to online theatre staging because meetings can only be held virtually and training cannot be conducted physically.

The touch of magic in performances is one of the observable 'wow-factor' elements through musical theatres. The uniqueness of portraying imagination into reality is a definite difference compared to the other types of theatre performances. The emergence of various Malay musical theatres specifically around the 21st century has displayed variations in their artistic depictions of showmanship following the creator's understanding and creativity. The showmanship in modern Malay musicals is overshadowed by Western characteristics which is Broadway. The struggle in glorifying Malay musical theatres surprisingly is inclined to follow the pattern shaped by the Westerns as the world's musical theatres pioneer. This research will disclose the formation of showmanship of Malay musical theatres as the identity of local work of arts based on several samples of staged performances in Istana Budaya, Kuala Lumpur. The questions on identity has become a debatable issue to look at the aspects that uplift it as local works of art. The formation of structure in delivering a showmanship combination between the director and the composer is also shown to gain conveyed influence through every touch in every work. Today, Malay musical theatres are shackled with questions on identity portrayal or are they basically mimicking the integrated form from Broadway. Referring to the structuring concept proposed by John Kenrick (2010), comparison of showmanship will be conducted to unwind the Broadway supremacy and the value of identity which can depict it as a Malay musical theatre. The results of this research contribute to the improvement of the performance's structure and illustrating the elements that uplift the identity of local works of art through the showmanship of Malay musical theatres as a reference for creators and academicians.