• Bengal Repertory’s Nihsanga Ishwar, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Set on the last day of Krishna’s life, this production won five META awards last year, including Best Production, Best Script, Best Design, Best Female Supporting Actor and Best Male […]

  • Proscenium’s Begum Jani Ki Haveli, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    An Urdu/Hindi Indianization of Federico Garcia Lorca’s classic The House of Bernarda Alba. Adapted and directed by Anjum Rizvi. Third production of Little Thespian's 15th national theatre festival, Jashn-e-Azhar. Read […]

  • Naye Natua’s Maimansingha Gitika, at Academy

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

    The folktale of Mahuya by Dwija Kanai, dramatized and directed by Goutam Halder. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review here.

  • Little Thespian’s Chak, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    The last play written by Little Thespian’s S. M. Azhar Alam, directed by Uma Jhunjhunwala. About the various challenges faced by Indian Muslims after the conflict in East Pakistan in […]

  • Natyaranga’s Sei Ek Binodini, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    One of the more unusual treatments of Nati Binodini’s llife: a play within a play on her last years and her friendship with Tara Sundari, promising revelations that have not come […]

  • Ashirwad (Begusarai)’s Pashmina, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Mrinal Mathur's touching Hindi play about a couple going for a vacation to Kashmir. Directed by Amit Roushan. Fifth production of Little Thespian’s 15th national theatre festival, Jashn-e-Azhar.

  • Nandipat’s Chandrabati Katha, at Academy

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

    Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about Chandrabati, the 16th-century poet who composed the first Bangla Ramayan from the perspective of Sita, as well as parts of the Maimansingha Gitika. Directed by Prokash […]

  • Vivechana (Jabalpur)’s Par Pazeb Na Bhige, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Satyanarayan Patel's folk-styled musical directed by Vivek and Pragati Pandey. Sixth and final production of Little Thespian’s 15th national theatre festival, Jashn-e-Azhar.