Not biographical, but a fictional drama showing the profound influence that film director Rituparno had as an icon. Rakesh Ghosh wrote and directed it in 2013, about a young transgender […]

Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★

The West Bengal Government has organized its annual Natyamela of Bengali theatre from February 5 till February 13, with free admission for everyone. Every afternoon and evening, 80 groups from […]

Intimate theatre directed by Jayoti Bose, part of the 24th Natyamela.

Ratan Kumar Das's new play about a lonely man whose only attachments left are his daughter and his home. Everything has changed around him: relationships and the times. Directed by […]

A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

An ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell debuted in 2011 with this play, deliberately and delectably perverting Shakespeare’s tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta. […]

Adishakti comes to Kolkata after many years with their new production in English. Questions of consent, agency and approval breathe new life into Urmila, Lakshmana's wife. Part of Pickle Factory's […]

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

The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.