NAPA announces Repertory Festival from 8 May

The National Academy of Performing Arts-NAPA on Wednesday announced holding the NAPA Repertory Festival, a celebration of theatre and music bringing together some of the institution's most accomplished alumni on the stage where they first learned their craft.

KARACHI, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 6th May, 2026) The National academy of Performing Arts-NAPA on Wednesday announced holding the NAPA Repertory Festival, a celebration of theatre and music bringing together some of the institution's most accomplished alumni on the stage where they first learned their craft. The festival is being held from 8 to 23 May 2026 at NAPA’s Zia Mohyeddin Theater.

In a press conference addressed by CEO NAPA Jarri Masood, HoD Music Hamza Jafri, and HoD Theater Arts Bazelah Mustafa, the Academy announced that the festival featured six theater performances and three musical evenings performed by alumni who have gone on to define Pakistani theater and music.

The two HoDs gave out the details of the festival along with its schedule. The festival would kick off on 8 May with a Sharr White play, Annapurna, which is adapted into urdu by Noreen Gulwani and directed by Moazzam Malik.

It would be followed by Mulaqat, a Jean Pierre Martinez play adapted into Urdu by Waqas Akhtar and directed by Osama Ranjha.

Next in line is Edward Albee’s acclaimed Zoo Story, adapted into Urdu and directed by Babar Ali. Then an evening of dastaangoi, Aik tha baadshah, would be performed by Fawad Khan, Meesam Naqvi, and Nazar ul-Hasan.

A live music concert is the next event, with Arsalan Pareyal Trio, and Muhamad Minaam being the performers.

The festival would continue with Zeest, a play written and directed by Kashif Hussain, and then Hide Seek by Derek Benfield. It is adapted into Urdu by Babar Jamal and directed by Zarqa Naz.

The festival ends with two back-to-back concerts—a Piano Series featuring Zeeshan Zafar, Julian Qaiser, and Philip Shahid, and then Transcendence, a Sufi music performance by Ahsan Bari.