13–29 November 2026 · St. Andrew’s Auditorium
The Drama Utsav
India’s large-scale multilingual theatre festival. Twenty-two productions. Five languages. One stage in Mumbai.
Conceived and curated by Paritosh Painter and Ideas Entertainment, with BookMyShow as the festival and ticketing partner. Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, English, and Bengali theatre share the same auditorium for seventeen days.
Alongside the plays: masterclasses, a college theatre platform, and the National Theatre Awards Gala.
“A celebration of theatre in all its diversity.”
- Naqaab, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui
- Broken Images, featuring Shabana Azmi
- English theatre with Shernaz Patel, Rajit Kapur, Vinay Pathak, and Lillete Dubey
- Marathi stage with Sayaji Shinde, Amruta Khanvilkar, Swapnil Joshi, Prashant Damle, and Dilip Prabhavalkar
- Masterclasses with Bharat Dabholkar, Ananth Mahadevan, Rakesh Bedi, Tanaz Irani, and Raell Padamsee
- Ambassadors: Ashok Saraf, Jim Sarbh, Boman Irani, Neena Gupta, Kalki Koechlin, and Mithila Palkar