• Shohan’s Swapnabaj, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Shohan’s new production, “an unknown house … and a story of known people” to upgrade your life. Kaushik Chattopadhyay’s play directed by Anish Ghosh.

  • Theatrecian’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, at Gyan Manch

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

    Albee's classic drama directed by Tathagata Chowdhury. Love as a battleground, words as weapons. In this interpretation, Martha plays the piano as she belts out classics that complement Albee's surreal ambience.

  • Chakdah Natyajan’s Jatra Gopal, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    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.

  • Nat-ranga’s Nolak, at Academy

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

    Amit Maitra’s drama written in the background of the mid-1990s, around the myth of an accidental act by a baby playfully pulling his mother’s nosering, leading to a nasal tear and future gossip that shatters the  protagonist’s societal existence. The play speaks of life’s core values and how humanity overpowers non-living matter. Directed and acted […]

  • Ichheymoto’s Je Janlagulor Akash Chhilo, at Kala Mandir

    Kala Mandir Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata

    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 […]

  • Ambali Praharaj (Delhi)’s Prathama Pandava Badhu, at Gyan Manch

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

    Premiere of a Bangla play about Hidimbi, Bhima's first wife and eldest bride of the Pandava clan.  A tale of love, motherhood, sacrifice and loneliness, it explores her struggle against social prejudice and her journey from a forest woman to a warrior mother. Written by Soham Gupta, directed by Ambali P Praharaj.

  • Sudrak’s Shikh ^kha Jatir Merudanda, at Academy

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

    A so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.

  • Bengal Repertory’s Uttarottar Ramcharit, at Academy

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

    Bengal Repertory's new production, a journey of re-search through the Ramayana and Indian philosophies, written by Suman Saha and Anupam Dasgupta. Suman Saha directs, following classical guidelines and traditional practices harmonizing with modern urban forms.

  • Kalyani Kalamandalam’s Radha-Ramakrishna, at Madhusudan

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

    An original play written by Rakesh Ghosh and directed by Santanu Das, on Girish Ghosh’s historic production of Chaitanya Lila in which Nati Binodini stunned audiences with her male impersonation, while Sri Ramakrishna nurtured Radha’s feminine bhava in himself independently and blessed Binodini after watching her performance. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Nandikar’s Panchajanya, at Kala Mandir

    Kala Mandir Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata

    A play written by Parthapratim Deb dramatizing the story of Krishna, directed by Sohini Sengupta.