• Shabdomugdho’s Rituparno Ghosh, at Academy

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

    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 […]

  • 24th Natyamela

    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 […]

  • Kolkata Twist’s Banaspatir Chhaya, at Academy

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

    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 […]

  • Chetla Krishti Sansad’s Amar Gan, at Jogesh

    Jogesh Mime Academy Kalighat Park, Kolkata, India

    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.

  • 4th Bell’s Hapi-D, at Rabindra Sadan

    Rabindra Sadan Cathedral Road, Kolkata

    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 (Puducherry)’s Urmila, at Birla Sabhagar

    G D Birla Sabhagar 29 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, Kolkata

    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 […]

  • 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.

  • Rangroop’s Manmayi Girls School, at Jogesh

    Jogesh Mime Academy Kalighat Park, Kolkata, India

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