• Ashokenagar Avijatri’s Rakta-karabi, at Rabindra Sadan

    Rabindra Sadan Cathedral Road, Kolkata

    Tagore's classic, a lighthouse in these dark times, directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay for Ashokenagar Avijatri Sanskritic Sanastha. Set in a contemporary context where technology dominates the soul as power and wealth have […]

  • Japonchitro (Delhi)’s Shodh, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Based on Taslima Nasrin’s novel that explores the plight of married women and feminism. A young woman's life has been a series of betrayals and silent sufferings, denied the chance […]

  • Anya Theatre’s Pratham Rajnaitik Hatya, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Written and directed by Debashis. Based on the freedom fighters arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Ichheymoto’s Je Janlagulor Akash Chhilo, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Four childhood friends from the 1990s grow up and go different ways, passing through youthful romances, heated arguments and political movements, testifying to changing times through the decades. Dramatized from […]

  • Rangroop’s Bhalo Pahar, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural […]

  • Hajabarala’s Ekanayaker Sesh Rat, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Written and directed by Chandan Sen, Ekanāyaker Sesh Rāt depicts an imaginary strife-torn African nation where a military dictator took over but now faces a popular revolution.

  • Prachya’s Day Amadero, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Dramatized by Sumantra Chattopadhyay from Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg about the Nazi trials and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay.

  • Rangroop’s Bhalo Pahar, at Madhusudan

    Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural […]

  • Out of Nowhere’s Guards at the Taj, at Padatik

    Padatik Little Theatre 6/7 A J C Bose Road, Kolkata

    Hindustani adaptation by a new local group of Rajiv Joseph’s dark drama that won the Obie award for best new American play in 2016. Two guards at the newly built […]