Galleri Kaya is set to inaugurate its latest group exhibition, “Glimpses”, marking 54 years of Bangladesh’s Independence through the works of 12 prominent contemporary and modern Bangladeshi artists.

The festival, running from December 1 to 31, will feature daily performances at 6:30 pm at the Experimental Theatre Hall. Jatra troupes from various parts of Bangladesh have registered to participate in the event.

Tom Stoppard, the playwright whose dazzling command of language reshaped modern theatre and who won an Academy Award for co-writing “Shakespeare in Love”, has died at 88, the BBC confirmed.

On November 27, The Islamic University of Technology Photographic Society (IUTPS) inaugurated “Break The Circle: Season XII” at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy’s Art Gallery 6, unveiling one of its most ambitious international showcases to date. The exhibition features 50 single photographs and seven photo stories selected from 7,832 submissions by judges Syed Latif Hossain, Suborna Morsheada and Sarker Protick.

After nearly two decades, Manipuri Theatre is bringing its acclaimed production “Dhwojo Mestorir Moron” back to the stage. The play, which portrays the tragic life of Dhwojo Mestori — a master builder of traditional Manipuri homes — will be staged in a renewed form on Saturday at 7 pm at the Experimental Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka.

The Ministry of Cultural Affairs has issued a statement congratulating photographer Amir Hamja, whose powerful image has been featured in TIME’s ‘100 Photos of the Year’. His photograph, depicting the funeral prayers of Didarul Islam, was selected for its emotional depth and global impact.

Curated by Tanzim Wahab and inaugurated at Bengal Shilpalay, the exhibition was deeply responsive to the venue’s raw architectural setting. The works engaged with the space’s unfinished textures, amplifying the tension between delicacy and solidity that runs through Nupur’s practice.

Written by Badruzzaman Alamgir and directed by Imran Khan, the production delivers a taut, haunting meditation on memory, loss and the long, bruising weight of waiting.

A century after his birth, Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident Professor Munier Choudhury’s voice still cuts through Bangladesh’s cultural and political history — sharp, principled and defiantly humane.

The exhibition, which runs from November 21 to November 29, invites visitors into the intimate and often unseen beginnings of animated storytelling—before the polish, before the frames move, before the films exist.

Jahangirnagar University’s Selim Al Deen Open Stage will host a three-day theatre festival titled “Nobin Boron” under the banner “Let the new charioteer arrive on the stage of a turning age.” Organised by Jahangirnagar Theatre, the event — called “Jagoroni” — opens Today and will present three full productions free to the public.

Describing such comments as “farcical”, the adviser urged critics not to behave like the fictional ‘Amin Chairman’, who feared television simply because it was unfamiliar. He shared an anecdote about a friend whose East German father once covered her eyes upon seeing Barbie dolls, fearing they would “corrupt” her — likening this to modern-day discomfort with drone shows.

Another chief guest, artist Kazi Mozammel Hossain, said the exhibition not only expresses the artists’ admiration for Jibanananda Das but also brings forth the everlasting beauty of Bengal’s nature on canvas.

A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said.

Chhayanaut general secretary Laisa Ahmed Lisa said in a release that the night will feature songs by five traditional lyricists, including Lalon Sain and Manmohan Dutta.

Rajshahi University is set to host the fourth edition of the “Kothashahityik Hasan Azizul Haque Theatre Festival”, beginning on Friday and continuing until Tuesday. The five-day event is being organised to mark the 44th founding anniversary of the university-based theatre troupe Somokal Natyochokro.

There was a time when Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed found herself facing one of the most challenging phases of her life. In the middle of that chaos, theatre entered her world — offering a rare sense of hope and peace just when she needed it most.

The central Paris museum—often compared to Madame Tussauds in London—already features figures of Charles, now King Charles III, and Queen Elizabeth II. Diana, however, had long been absent despite her enduring association with the city where she died in a car crash in August 1997.

In the quiet corners of Alliance Française, a small cluster of canvases invites viewers into a Dhaka that no longer exists — or perhaps one that exists only in memory. In “City of Memories”, Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed turns the familiar chaos of our own Old Dhaka into intimate, abstract landscapes, painted to recall the magic of the city.

The invitation marks a significant moment for Bangladeshi theatre scholarship, placing a local academic voice at one of the region’s most influential platforms for performance research, collaboration and pedagogy.