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Theatre, Festivals, and Everything in Between — The Work of a Mumbai Arts Company Worth Knowing

In a city as culturally active as Mumbai, it takes more than enthusiasm to build a lasting name in the arts. Enthusiasm is easy to find. What is harder to find is the combination of genuine skill, a clear sense of purpose, and the patience to build something slowly and carefully over a long period of time. QTP, a theatre and arts management company based in Mumbai, has demonstrated all three over the course of more than two decades, and the body of work it has produced as a result is both varied and coherent.

The company operates across several areas — theatre production, arts management, corporate projects, and digital events. But the sensibility running through all of it is consistent, and that consistency is what gives the whole enterprise its shape and its credibility. At the centre of everything is a genuine love for live performance and a genuine belief that the arts matter — not in an abstract, theoretical way, but in the practical sense that they change how people see things and how they feel about them.

The company is based out of Andheri West, Mumbai, and has been building this body of work since the late 1990s. It is not the biggest name in the Indian arts landscape, but it may be one of the more dependable ones — a company that has consistently delivered work of real quality without making a great deal of noise about it.

The Theatre That Started It All

Theatre is where the company's roots lie, and it remains the foundation on which everything else is built. The productions it has backed over the years include original plays, international productions brought to Indian audiences, and work produced in collaboration with other theatre groups. The plays tend to be carefully chosen and tightly executed — stories that have something real to offer, performed in a way that does not waste the audience's time or underestimate their intelligence.

The subjects have ranged widely — from the inner life of a powerful matriarch navigating old age alone, to a sharp comic satire about what development costs an indigenous community, to a deeply personal exploration of what it means to grow up alongside a parent's mental illness, to the quiet tensions that run through a modern relationship. Each of these plays has required a different approach, and each has been handled with care.

Growing Into Arts Management

Starting with a theatre festival in 1999, the company gradually built out a substantial parallel identity in arts management. Today it designs and delivers cultural experiences across theatre, literature, music, and dance — each requiring its own kind of programming knowledge and its own network of relationships.

Building a festival from the ground up is a very different challenge from producing a play. It requires thinking about the audience experience across multiple days and multiple events, managing complex logistics, and making programming decisions that hold together as a whole rather than just as a collection of individual parts. QTP has been doing this for over two decades, and the experience shows in the quality and coherence of what it delivers.

The corporate work adds another strand — product launches, corporate films, and workshops handled with the same underlying care the company brings to its theatre. The team has also developed a digital events practice in recent years, managing online conferences, webinars, and theatre productions on digital platforms.

Adapting Without Losing the Thread

The move into digital events tested many organisations in the live arts space, and not all of them came through it well. The challenge is not just technical — it is about understanding what makes a live experience meaningful and finding ways to preserve as much of that as possible when the audience is no longer in the room with the performer. The company has handled this transition thoughtfully, without it feeling like a compromise or a distraction from what it is actually about.

Taken together, the picture that emerges is of a company that has earned its place in Mumbai's cultural life through sustained, thoughtful work rather than noise or self-promotion. In the arts, that kind of quiet persistence matters more than it might appear from the outside, and over time it tends to produce something more lasting than any amount of publicity could.

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Every Brilliant Thing – QTP's Most Personal and Powerful Production Yet

QTP's Every Brilliant Thing has earned a reputation as one of the most affecting pieces of theatre the company has produced. Written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe and directed by Quasar Thakore Padamsee, the play follows a narrator who, as a seven-year-old, starts listing every brilliant thing in the world to help his mother who finds it hard to be happy.

The list becomes a lifelong project, a coping mechanism, and ultimately a testament to the will to keep going. Staged in-the-round and performed solo by Vivek Madan, the production places the audience at the centre of the experience, both literally and emotionally.

To know more about the play, visit https://www.qtp.in/our-work/theatre-projects/every-brilliant-thing

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From Theatre to Full-Scale Festivals — One Mumbai Company Does It All

There's something interesting about an organisation that started with a theatre festival back in 1999 and has since grown into a full-service arts and events company without losing its original spirit. That's essentially the story of QTP Entertainment.

Over the years, they've expanded into literature, music, and dance festivals, alongside their core theatre work. They've also taken on corporate projects — product launches, workshops, corporate films — bringing the same theatrical thinking to a very different kind of brief.

What people in the industry tend to appreciate is that they don't treat any project as just another gig. There's a thoughtfulness to how they approach things, whether it's a small stage play or a large-scale festival.

The digital side of their work is also worth noting. When events moved online, they didn't just replicate a stage experience on a screen — they actually figured out how to make virtual events engaging, which is harder than it sounds.

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Digital Projects That Make Technology Work for People

Technology in digital projects should serve the experience, not define it. The best online events are the ones where the technology works seamlessly in the background, allowing the content and the connections between people to take centre stage. QTP is a Mumbai-based production company that understands this principle and applies it consistently across the digital projects it manages.

Rather than letting the limitations of the digital medium dictate what is possible, the company looks for creative ways to use technology to enhance the experience — building digital environments that feel engaging, well-structured, and genuinely connected to the spirit of the event. Their portfolio of digital projects includes large literature festivals with millions of viewers, multi-day social conferences, youth theatre festivals with international participation, performing arts symposiums, and digital theatre productions. Each has been produced with a clear focus on making technology serve the people participating in and watching the event.

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Product Launches – From Press Events to Public Reveals

Product launches come in many forms — press events, trade introductions, public reveals, book launches, and more. Each format has its own requirements and its own set of challenges, and a production company that handles all of them well needs both breadth of experience and the ability to adapt its approach to each specific context. QTP, a Mumbai-based production company, has worked on product launches across all of these formats over many years of corporate production work.

The company brings a consistent set of values to every product launch it manages — care, customisation, and a genuine investment in the outcome. The creative approach is always tailored to the specific product and brand, and the production management is thorough and detail-oriented from start to finish. For businesses planning a product launch in Mumbai or across India, this is a company with the experience and the approach to make the occasion genuinely memorable.

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What Goes Into Building a Portfolio of Theatre Projects in Mumbai

Theatre in Mumbai is not short of talent. The city has always had a strong pool of writers, directors, and performers who are deeply committed to the craft. But the production side of theatre — the work of actually putting a play together, getting it on stage, and keeping it running — is where things get more complicated. Building a genuine portfolio of theatre projects over a sustained period of time requires a very specific combination of passion, discipline, and organisational capability.

QTP Entertainment is a Mumbai-based production company that has spent more than two decades doing exactly this. Their theatre projects span original home productions, touring productions of plays from other companies, line production work, and production management for other theatre makers. It is a comprehensive approach to theatre work — one that reflects a genuine love of the rehearsal room and everything that happens in it.

The home productions are perhaps the most visible part of the theatre projects portfolio. These are plays that the company has developed and produced from the ground up — choosing the stories, working with directors and performers, managing the technical and logistical side of the production, and bringing the finished work to audiences in Mumbai and beyond. The plays in this category tend to have a strong social or emotional core. They are the kind of work that asks something of the audience — attention, empathy, a willingness to sit with difficult questions.

Beyond the home productions, the theatre projects work also extends to touring. Bringing productions from other companies to Mumbai audiences, and taking productions out to other cities, requires a different set of skills — logistics, venue relationships, artist management, audience development. This is work that does not always get a great deal of visibility but is essential to the health of the theatre ecosystem.

Taken together, the theatre projects portfolio represents a sustained commitment to live performance in India. It is not the work of a company that treats theatre as a side interest or a stepping stone to something else. It is the work of a team that genuinely believes in what the stage can do, and has spent decades proving it.

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A Play About Love That Is Really About Everything Else Too

On the surface, Lungs is a play about a couple deciding whether to have a child. But in QTP Entertainment's hands, it becomes a thoughtful and moving exploration of what it means to be in a relationship when the world around you feels unstable. Climate change, overpopulation, political uncertainty — all of it seeps into the cracks of this deeply personal story. First performed at the NCPA, Mumbai in 2022, Lungs is a production that rewards every minute of its 80-minute runtime.

To know more, visit https://www.qtp.in/our-work/theatre-projects/lungs

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The Intersection of Theatre and Business — a Partnership That Works

The idea of bringing theatre into the corporate world is not new, but it remains underutilised. For decades, organisations in Europe and North America have drawn on theatrical techniques — improvisation, storytelling, physical awareness, ensemble thinking — to address challenges in communication, leadership, and team dynamics. In India, the practice is still developing, but the organisations that have engaged with it seriously tend to arrive at the same conclusion: the skills developed through theatre translate into business settings with surprising precision.

The connection makes sense when you examine it closely. Theatre is, at its core, the art of communication under pressure. It demands that practitioners listen actively, respond authentically, hold a room's attention, and tell stories that land. These are also, not coincidentally, the skills that separate effective leaders and communicators from ineffective ones in any professional context. The difference is that theatre develops them through practice — through doing, failing, adjusting, and trying again — rather than through instruction.

Corporate theatre productions apply this understanding in several directions. The most familiar is the workshop format: groups of professionals engaging with theatrical exercises designed to develop specific skills — active listening, spontaneous thinking, physical presence, collaborative problem-solving. The best of these sessions don't feel like training. They feel like play, which is precisely what makes them effective. Learning that happens through genuine engagement tends to stick in a way that learning delivered through slides and bullet points rarely does.

Beyond workshops, theatre brings something valuable to corporate events. A product launch designed with theatrical sensibility is a fundamentally different experience from one designed purely as a logistical exercise. When the narrative arc of an evening is considered — when the atmosphere, the pacing, the moment of reveal, and the emotional note on which people leave are all treated as creative decisions rather than operational ones — the event produces a different kind of impression. People talk about it differently. They remember it differently. The product, in this context, doesn't just get announced; it gets introduced with intention, which is a meaningfully different thing.

The same principle applies to corporate films. A film built around a genuine story — with attention to character, emotional arc, and visual language — moves people in ways that a straightforward brand communication exercise cannot. This is not about production budget. It is about the quality of the thinking that goes into the work before a camera is ever picked up. Organisations that approach film work with the rigour of theatre production — treating conceptualisation, scripting, casting, and direction as connected creative decisions — produce films that have a life beyond the screening room.

QTP has worked across all of these areas, bringing a theatrical sensibility to corporate events, workshops, and films that produces consistently different results from what standard corporate creative agencies typically deliver. The organisation's roots in theatre inform every aspect of this work — not as a novelty or a selling point, but as a genuine methodology. The skills and instincts developed through years of live production are directly applicable to the corporate context, and the organisations that have experienced this tend to return to it.