• Shohan’s Jera, at Madhusudan

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

    Indianized by Jagannath Guha from Giuseppe Tornatore’s influential film A Pure Formality, about an inspector interrogating a famous author. Directed by Anish Ghosh.

  • Karen Houge (Norway)’s Dreamgirl, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    An intimate shared experience where Karen Houge explores trust through personal stories and playful audience interaction. In an era of war and political division, it offers a fresh and urgent perspective on how trust is built, broken and repaired. It is a conversation about the world we live in and the future of humanity. Do […]

  • Chetana’s Hibijibi Bahini, at Academy

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

    A “non-sense” production with child and adult actors, written and directed by Sujan Mukhopadhyay. Alibaba, accompanied by his trusty donkey, opens the door to the cave and discovers no treasure but ancient, worthless artifacts and a rusted lamp from which emerges the Genie. Meanwhile, the band of thieves finds themselves devoid of any occupation in […]

  • Karen Houge (Norway)’s Dreamgirl, at Urban Theatre

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    An intimate shared experience where Karen Houge explores trust through personal stories and playful audience interaction. In an era of war and political division, it offers a fresh and urgent perspective on how trust is built, broken and repaired. It is a conversation about the world we live in and the future of humanity. Do […]

  • Ami Arts Festival’s Gangs of Pencilpur, at Gyan Manch

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

    A collaborative musical with over 100 students taking the stage, from Birla High, Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Sri Sri Academy, Sushila Birla Girls' and BSS schools.

  • Dastangoi Collective (Delhi)’s Dastan-e-Ret-Samadhi, at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Evocative Dastangoi storytelling performance by Mahmood Farooqui and Poonam Girdhani, adapting Geetanjali Shree’s novel Ret Samadhi set against the haunting echoes of Partition. It follows an elderly woman’s journey from grief to self-discovery after her husband’s death, in the search for a long-lost home, awakening questions of identity, memory and renewal. Inaugural performance of Ami […]

  • Ridhdhi (Bengaluru)’s The Trial of Abdus Salam, at Bose Institute

    An imagined courtroom drama that explores the genius and faith, trials and triumphs, wit and wisdom, and life and works of Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel Prize-winner in Physics for contributing to unifying the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. His vision was inspired by the surahs of the Quran which spoke to him of a deep […]

  • Jyoti Dogra (Mumbai)’s Maas, at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Minimal yet immersive, Maas strips theatre down to its essentials—body, memory, voice. Through her raw and deeply physical solo performance style, Jyoti Dogra explores the fragile yet unbreakable ties between memory, identity and the body as a vessel of both trauma and resilience. Personal narratives intermingle with cultural conditioning, as the play unravels the discomfort […]

  • Sanglap Kolkata’s Hulusthul, at Academy

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

    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.

  • Ansh (Mumbai)’s Piyakkad, at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Hilarious, surreal and deeply unsettling, Piyakkad explores the fragile line between intoxication and liberation. A man finds truth, illusion and escape through alcohol, blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. With Makarand Deshpande’s trademark mix of absurdist humour, lyrical monologues and raw emotional intensity, his one-man play becomes both a mirror of loneliness and a […]