• 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 […]

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

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

    Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.

  • Ek Mulaqat (Mumbai), at Birla Sabhagar

    G D Birla Sabhagar 29 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, Kolkata

    Revival of the old production. To quote from my review in 2015: "written by Summana Ahmed and Saif Hyder Hasan, and directed by the latter. It presented the relationship between […]

  • Seraikela Chhau, at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Performance by Guru Malay Kumar Sahu and his ensemble from Seraikela, Jharkhand.

  • The Red Curtain’s Game Changer, at Gyan Manch

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

    A women's empowerment play in English written by Elina Dasgupta Dutta and directed by Sumit Lai Roy.

  • Natadha’s Mahabharat 2, at Madhusudan

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

    Written by Shib Mukhopadhyay as his second dramatization of the epic, this time concentrating on the Udyoga Parva. Directed by Arna Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • The Creative Arts’ Home in a Suitcase, at TCA

    The Creative Arts 31/2A Sadananda Road, Kolkata, India

    Dedicated to all people who have found themselves between cities, between choices, between who they were and who they’re becoming, still searching for a place to belong, who have folded […]

  • The Creative Arts’ Home in a Suitcase, at TCA

    The Creative Arts 31/2A Sadananda Road, Kolkata, India

    Dedicated to all people who have found themselves between cities, between choices, between who they were and who they’re becoming, still searching for a place to belong, who have folded […]