Together with Celebrating Life Festival Director and The Daily Star's Editor of Showbiz – Rafi Hossain, Bitopi Das – Head of Corporate Affairs at Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh, has directed Celebrating Life contest and festival.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday demanded an apology from the cast of "Hamilton" for appealing from the stage to Mike Pence to "uphold our American values" while the vice-president-elect was attending a performance of the Broadway hit.

In a bid to offer support to ailing or terminally ill artistes, November 19 saw the inaugural ceremony of the launching of Shilpi’r Pashey Foundation at The Westin Dhaka.

A few weeks ago, it was announced that “Deadppol” director Tim Miller would not return for the sequel due to creative differences.

Pandit Jasraj is one of the most decorated living figures of Indian classical music. The legendary singer is not just a decorated classical vocalist with a vocal range covering three and a half octaves, but also an innovator.

Bangladesh National Museum (BNM) has organised an exhibition titled “Soul to Soul”, featuring works of Nicola Strippoli Tarshito at Nalinikanta Bhattashali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum. The exhibition delineates a voyage of discovery through the threads of Bengal embroidery.

Celebrating Life, a competition jointly organised by The Daily Star and Standard Chartered Bank, and directed by Rafi Hossain (editor of Showbiz, The Daily Star)

A duet art exhibition titled “Into the Valley of Beauty” was inaugurated on November 18 at Zainul Gallery-2, Faculty of Fine Art (FFA), University of Dhaka (DU).

“Amar jomi, amar dhan; tukra khanao dibam nay” -- the call of the Santal people were voiced by the performers of Nagarnat in Sylhet, through an interactive street play “Bhumi Putra” staged in front of Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar on Wednesday.

There is a famous quote by Picasso: “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” While not completely agreeing with the legendary painter, I would rather say inspiration exists, but you have to seek it travelling.

The Dhaka Lit Fest comes to a close on Saturday (November 19) at the Bangla Academy, with what promises to be a pulsating, yet

From the highest dunk of a biscuit into a cup of tea by a bungee jumper to the most magic tricks performed during a skydive, the adventurous and imaginative are marking Guinness World Records Day on Thursday with all sorts of feats.

Just ahead of the release of “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct”, the first studio album from Metallica in eight years (since 2008’s “Death Magnetic”), the band went on a video-releasing frenzy since yesterday.

Lionsgate has set Taron Egerton's “Robin Hood” for a March 23, 2018, release. Egerton is starring in the origins story along with Jamie Foxx as Little John and Eve Hewson as Maid Marian. “Fifty Shades of Grey” star Jamie Dornan will portray Will Scarlett, the half-brother of Robin Hood.

Actress Vaani Kapoor, who returns to the silver screen after a gap of three years, says filmmaker Aditya Chopra had asked her to wait for the right film.

Dipa Khandaker has been involved with TV plays for over a decade. In her long career span, she has played different roles. Besides

You will never find on the shelves of any travel agency, maps used by Nicola Strippoli Tarshito for his travels. That's because they are

The trailer starts out with some light humor, only to take a left turn into some dark and dangerous territory. Maybe that's what

A man of theatre, Faruque Ahmed has been involved with the field for decades. At one stage of acting in theatre, he stepped into the TV media. Later, he started acting in cinemas as well. The popular actor recently spoke to The Daily Star, about his theatre journey and more. Excerpts:

The Bengal Classical Music Festival, in its last four editions, have introduced the Bangladeshi audience to the highest forms of vocal