LUCKNOW, April 5 -- The golden jubilee celebrations of the Bhartendu Natya Akademi (BNA) will begin on Sunday with chief minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurating the renovated building, which includes the BM Shah and Raj Bisaria Thrust Auditorium.

An eight-day theatre festival will be part of the celebrations, shared BNA chairperson Ratishankar Tripathi during a press interaction at the Akademi on Saturday.

The institution began from a small room in Ravindralaya and, over the decades, has become one of the few major theatre training centres in the country.

Deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma, and mayor Sushma Kharkwal will be present on the occasion.

Following the inauguration, a s...