Kolkata: By 26, Binodini Dasi had played 90 roles in 80 plays and helped build Kolkata’s Star Theatre — only to be cast out by the men who owed her their success. Eighty-three years after her death, ...

Rukmini Maitra (“Sanak”) will play the lead in Ram Kamal Mukherjee’s Bengali-language film “Binodiini – Ekti Natir Upakhyan” (“Binodiini – Tale of a Theater Artist”). The film will be a biopic of ...

Sudhanya Basu remembers a childhood surrounded by Bengali culture. Growing up in Kharagpur, India, she spent days reading Satyajit Ray’s mystery novels and watching director Mrinal Sen’s award-winning ...

A programme on the occasion of World Theatre Day on March 27 at the Russian Centre paid tributes to the pioneer of Bengal theatre, Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev, who introduced the European-styled ...

For the first time, a Bengalee theatre group from abroad has staged their play in Bangladesh. The Canadian troupe, Toronto Theatre Folks, performed their new stage play "Ek Jora Juta" on February 22 ...