In 1989, a subsidiary course on Theatre was instituted under the supervision of the Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka. The Department of Theatre and Music started its journey as a full-fledged department on September 1, 1994 and debuted as a separate entity named Department of Theatre on July 1, 2009. Then on April 20, 2014, the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies was renamed. Through the various methods and applications of acting under the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the department, a bridge is built between Western, Eastern and indigenous performing arts. Currently Md. Ashiq Rahman Leon is serving as the chairman of the department.
Standing at the age of twenty-Eight, the department is moving forward with success at the national and international levels. The department was started by Syed Jamil Ahmed, the head founder of the department.