• Mangalik’s Manush Bhut, at Academy

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

    Mangalik’s longest-running production, dramatized from Syed Mustafa Siraj and directed by Samir Biswas. A comedy about a “dead” man coming alive. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Sanglap Kolkata’s Hulusthul, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Ek Āshcharja Pheriwālā by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, which evil people conspire to capture, while an eccentric scientist pursues his thirst for knowledge, Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Roopkatha Rangmanch (Mumbai)’s La-ilaaj, at Kala Mandir

    Kala Mandir Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata

    Pankaj Tripathi's return to his theatre roots with a musical that explores love, passion, responsibility, self-respect and consent. Set in a city neighbourhood around a local band party, it follows different characters as they struggle to define love in their own lives. Written and directed by Faiz Mohammed Khan, it features a 30-member ensemble. Presented […]

  • Seconds Before Coming (Delhi), at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    Freshly kissed by a man, an eleven-year-old girl believed she had fallen in love. Now an adult, she is soaked in pain. As the body reveals itself to be a sea of conflicts and mirrors, she urgently tries to swim to the smooth surfaces of herself. Instead, when she finds herself sinking into the soft […]

  • Jadavpur Manthan’s Ramanujan, at Academy

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

    A retelling of the life of Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan from the humble town of Kumbakonam to the hallowed halls of Cambridge. The dramatis personae include devout and determined mother, Kamallatammal, who introduced him to the world of classical Indian mathematics; his young wife Janaki, whose loneliness, sacrifices and silent suffering form a backdrop to his […]

  • Guild of the Goat (Delhi)’s Seconds Before Coming, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    Freshly kissed by a man, an eleven-year-old girl believed she had fallen in love. Now an adult, she is soaked in pain. As the body reveals itself to be a sea of conflicts and mirrors, she urgently tries to swim to the smooth surfaces of herself. Instead, when she finds herself sinking into the soft […]

  • 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 Rahul Arunoday Banerjee’s stories and directed by Saurav Palodhi. The only production from Kolkata to reach the final round of META 2026, Delhi, where it […]

  • Akvarious (Mumbai)’s Dekh Behen, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    Over 130 performances across 13 cities, "the first fully female superhit". A bittersweet comedy about daughters, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, wives, at a big fat Delhi wedding. Merely hours before they need to put up their rehearsed item number, five bridesmaids catch up, gossip, eat, drink and bitch about their identical outfits. But that’s not the […]

  • 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 Bhattacharya.

  • Akvarious (Mumbai)’s Dekh Behen, at Urban Theatre

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

    Over 130 performances across 13 cities, “the first fully female superhit”. A bittersweet comedy about daughters, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, wives, at a big fat Delhi wedding. Merely hours before they need to put up their rehearsed item number, five bridesmaids catch up, gossip, eat, drink and bitch about their identical outfits. But that’s not the […]