Theatre is where The Peninsula Studios’ music archive returns to the stage — not as tribute or homage, but as original theatrical work, built from the people, the music, and the history the archive holds.
Two practices carry this forward. Musical Theatre, directed by Sita Raina, turns the archive’s music back into performance. Chamber Theatre, led by M K Raina, stages text-driven work chosen for its lasting value. Neither is the limit of what TPS will stage; both are the current record of what TPS has chosen to stage.
Sita Raina has spent decades at the heart of India’s performing arts — as an actor, director, and producer across theatre, television, and cinema, including a role in Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khiladi. She co-founded The Peninsula Studios and directs its Musical Theatre productions.
Each production interweaves script, archival film, live singing, recorded music, and visuals to put the music back into its original context — how it was written, who shaped it, and why it still matters. These are original theatrical works, not tribute concerts: performances built from primary material the archive already holds, not re-staged from a songbook.
Emperors of Melody is a tetralogy on S.D. Burman, O.P. Nayyar, R.D. Burman, and Madan Mohan — the legends whose lives and music shaped the sound of Hindi cinema’s golden era. Each production features a full cast, recorded music, archival film, and a narrative built around a single composer’s life and work. Staged by invitation at Delhi Gymkhana, Delhi Golf Club, Tollygunge Club, and India Habitat Centre.
Divas Ke Deevane applies the same practice to the leading ladies of Hindi cinema — their lives and their songs, restored to the context the archive already holds for the composers who wrote for them. Staged by invitation at Delhi Gymkhana, Delhi Golf Club, Tollygunge Club, and India Habitat Centre, with further performances at the BITS Pilani alumni reunion and Ludhiana Sanskritik Samagam at Guru Nanak Bhawan.
The Peninsula Studios’ Musical Theatre productions are available for presentation by cultural organisations, corporations, universities, clubs, festivals, and public institutions. Enquiries for Emperors of Melody, Divas Ke Deevane, or future productions, please contact us.
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Chamber Theatre
Chamber Theatre Live @The Peninsula Studios is a unique platform where high-quality theatre is curated by us and presented to a discerning invited audience in the intimate setting at our Studio. The platform is genre and language agnostic. Shri M K Raina, India's foremost theatre personality, leads this production with Sita Raina Co-Founder Director of The Peninsula Studios.
Chamber Theatre
Chamber Theatre is led by M K Raina — a graduate of the National School of Drama, where he won the Best Actor award in 1970, and recipient of the B.V. Karanth award for lifetime achievement in theatre in 2007 — with Sita Raina as curator. Work is chosen because it has already demonstrated its value, across genre and language, not because it needs a stage to establish it.
Kabira Khada Baazaar Mein: Bhishm Sahni’s play on Saint Kabir, first staged in the 1980s. Directed by M K Raina. The play has outlived its debut by four decades; TPS stages it because that endurance is itself the evidence of its value.
Buhe Bariyan
Three short stories by Amrita Pritam, Ajit Caur, and Veena Verma, built around female protagonists, performed by Nita Mohindra, directed by M K Raina, curated by Sita Raina. The source writers are established figures in Partition-era literature; the production exists to keep that body of work in front of an audience, in the form it was written to reach.