On 13 and 14 April, an undergraduate English thesis was performed in the form of a play. Under the guidance of Professor Mandakini Dubey, Suhaani Gala (UG’26) staged a production of Julie Jensen’s Last Lists of My Mad Mother

On 22nd March, 2026, the Black Box was covered— chairs, corners, floors and all— with viewers eager to be transported to sunny Kalokairi, curious to see what flavour the student production at Ashoka University would add to one of the most popular musicals, Mamma Mia.

On December 3rd, 2025 Jorge Rivera Herrans released a snippet of “Pride of Troy”, one of the many themed songs that will make it to his new album, Ilium, a musical adaptation of the Trojan War. It will be another Greek retelling of a tale heard time and again, only now with the wit, music, and contemporary tongue Herrans offers with his pieces. Given the success of his EPIC: The Musical, it is only fair that expectations run high, and for the right reasons. Herrans’ famed EPI

Pratyush Mishra (UG’27), an aspiring filmmaker who enjoys singing and acting, was inspired by films such as Black Swan (2010), Phantom Thread (2017), and Whiplash (2014) when he wrote the play Hum Nachte Kyun Hain? (“Why do we dance?”). “I had always wanted to write a story about an artist, how they feel for their art, and why they do their art.”

From the moment that I was let into the Black Box, it was clear that this Bernarda Alba was built on subtraction.