• Swapna-sandhani’s Hamlet, at Academy

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

    Shakespeare’s classic translated into Bengali by Chaiti Mitra and directed by Koushik Sen. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Akvarious (Mumbai)’s External Affairs, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    A comedy about confusion, fashionable anxiety, technology, transactional relationships, wokeness and all the problems that plague Generation Z. Loneliness and convenience bring a couple together, but then sparks fly. Written by Bobby Nagra and directed by Adhaar Khurana. More performances on August 13 and 14, evenings.

  • Akvarious (Mumbai)’s External Affairs, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    A comedy about confusion, fashionable anxiety, technology, transactional relationships, wokeness and all the problems that plague Generation Z. Loneliness and convenience bring a couple together, but then sparks fly. Written by Bobby Nagra and directed by Adhaar Khurana. Two more performances on August 14, at 5 pm and 7 pm.

  • Akvarious (Mumbai)’s External Affairs, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    A comedy about confusion, fashionable anxiety, technology, transactional relationships, wokeness and all the problems that plague Generation Z. Loneliness and convenience bring a couple together, but then sparks fly. Written by Bobby Nagra and directed by Adhaar Khurana. Two performances, at 5 pm and 8 pm.

  • Aneek’s Aksharik, at Academy

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

    Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Samstab’s Anahuta, at Academy

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

    A psychological thriller written by Snehasish Bhattacharjee and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. An intruder barging into a happy home and accuses the husband of stealing his identity and everything belonging to him.

  • Chakdah Natyajan’s Jatra Gopal, at Academy

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

    An actor passes himself off as an affordable alternative to the famous Jatra star Shantigopal and even plagiarizes the latter’s famous scripts. Written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and directed by Sudipta Datta.

  • Potli (Mumbai)’s Golden Bazaar, at Birla Sabhagar

    G D Birla Sabhagar 29 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, Kolkata

    A Hindi drama about a young couple who fall in love in Kolkata. Their relationship takes a dramatic turn when he betrays her one night, and she agrees to forgive him on one condition. Unwittingly, she faces a physical and psychological ordeal. Written by Pawan Uttam and Vijay Singh Parmar, directed by Parmar. Presented by […]

  • Shilpi Sangha’s Birpurush, at Academy

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

    Howrah high-schoolers impress not just with their moving performance but also their original script. Co-authors Rajarshi Dhara and Swapnojoy Ganguly write about a boy who misses his father, an army officer posted on the border, and vents his frustration on his working mother. Tagore’s popular poem for children takes the shape of a vivid dream […]

  • Pancham Vaidic’s Pulish, at Academy

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

    Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek’s dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.