Ritchie Solaiman has established herself as a popular actress. She has also done some modelling and she is a dancer. As recognition to her skills, Ritchie has received a Meril-Prothom Alo award. The Daily Star (TDS) recently caught up with the actress.

At 50 plus, like a prime time soap opera, Rekha still gets viewers in a tizzy. In short, she has kept her audience hooked, both on and off the screen, even before it became fashionable to be ‘divaesque’.

Anusheh Anadil’s collaborations with Tanmoy Bose have brought us music that crosses borders. Last year’s mesmerizing, Baul and Beyond, was a treat that speaks volumes to all generations.

Poet Abul Momen, on Thursday, said that Rabindranath was a beacon of our struggle for an independent, secular and democratic Bangladesh. He was delivering the keynote speech at a programme organised on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of first Asian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

A local and a foreign troupe will stage two plays at the two venues of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy today on the opening day of the 10-day Dhaka International Theatre Festival.

Zahir Raihan Film Society is celebrating its 25th anniversary on May 16. On the occasion, the film society is holding a festival, titled “A Tribute to Women Filmmakers of the World” — screening 38 films by 34 female filmmakers from as many countries.

Even the most hard nosed dance critic didn’t come away unmoved by a recent unique dance experience titled ‘The Exuberance That is Dance’. An eclectic mix of traditional, classical and contemporary dance styles, the evening brought together performances by upcoming and established dance companies and individual artistes. The show was held at India Habitat Centre, [...]

The three-day Rabindra Jayanti celebrations began here on Sunday at Dakkhindihi under Phultala upazila and also at Pithabhog under Rupsha upazila of Khulna district.

On the second day (May 7) of the celebration programme, jointly organised by Bangladesh and India, several Bangladeshi singers performed solos and choruses while artistes from both countries recited Tagore poems.

Intellectuals, cultural personalities and Tagore enthusiasts of the country attended the lecture by Dr. Sanjida Khatun, president and a founder member of Chhayanaut. The event, at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, was a part of the three-day long festival, jointly organised by India and Bangladesh, marking 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.

Every year the world celebrates International Dance Day to bring everyone together through a common language — dance. Each dance day is an opportunity to acknowledge the power of dance in our lives.

The two-day long ‘Robi-Shikor Adibashi Lokoj Utshab’ (Indigenous Cultural Festival) on Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet campus ended last Thursday.

To pay tribute to the first Asian Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, art and literature aficionados of the port city thronged the auditorium of Alliance Française de Chittagong on Tuesday evening.

Ila Majumdar, classical singer, writer and teacher of logic, philosophy and music, died yesterday (at around 2am) at her residence in Maghbazar.

“Guerrilla”, a film depicting the Liberation War, directed by noted cultural personality and freedom fighter Nasiruddin Yousuff, was recently screened at Theatre Institute Chittagong (TIC).