• 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 by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, but fruitful in the thirst for knowledge, which some people conspire to […]

  • Kamla Shankar Dhanwanti Foundation (Delhi)’s Ramanujan, at Gyan Manch

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

    Partap Sehgal's play celebrates the life and achievements of Srinivasa Ramanujan, from a poor and modest clerk in Madras to a renowned mathematician at Cambridge, exploring the challenges he faced […]

  • Samukha (New Delhi)’s Bulleh Shah, at Gyan Manch

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

    Partap Sehgal's play about Bulleh Shah, descendant of Prophet Mohammad and belonging to the upper Pathan caste, whose family members opposed him becoming a disciple of the Sufi seer Shah […]

  • Garia Krishti’s Kalpurush, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    Dramatized from Samares Mazumdar’s novel, the third in his Animesh quartet, focusing on the journey of Animesh’s son. Scripted and directed by Sitangshu Khatua.

  • Manch Rangmanch (Amritsar)’s Rang Basanti, at Gyan Manch

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

    Partap Sehgal's play is a narrative of Bhagat Singh's life, whose revolutionary actions are repeatedly highlighted, but his socialist ideology relegated to the background. He emerges as a radical in […]

  • Sayak’s Dharmabatar, at Academy

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

    Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya.

  • Prachya’s Khelaghar, at Academy

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

    Ibsen’s trailblazing Doll’s House adapted by Ratan Kumar Das and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

  • Purba Paschim’s Sri o Nidhu-babu Katha, at Academy

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

    Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about the triangle between Tappa pioneer Nidhu-babu, his royal patron-friend Mahananda Ray, and the latter’s mistress Srimati who became Nidhu-babu’s devoted disciple. Directed by Soumitra Mitra.

  • Kapila Venu (Irinjalakuda)’s Saiva Kuttu, at Alipore Museum

    Alipore Musiem Judges Court Road, Kolkata, India

    A very rare opportunity to see the solo genre of the ancient Sanskrit form of Kutiyattam from Kerala, performed by one of its finest younger exponents, Kapila Venu, using a […]

  • 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.