• Theatre Platform’s Gharer Madhye Bari, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    Dramatist-director Debasish’s new play about an old building facing demolition, whose residents face eviction, and whose inhabitants include non-humans too. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Ichheymoto’s Henry Kothay?, at Academy

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

    Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.

  • Shohan’s Amirah, at Minerva

    Minerva Theatre Utpal Dutt Sarani (Beadon Street), Kolkata

    Inspired by Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, written by Anirban Sen and directed by Anish Ghosh.

  • Angik’s Binodini Opera, at Kala Mandir

    Kala Mandir Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata

    Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty.

  • Nat-ranga’s Chhayapather Sheshe, at Academy

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

    Dramatist-director Sohan Bandopadhyay’s ghostly comedy set in a dilapidated north Kolkata hall about to be demolished to make way for a mall. Resident spooks protest against the reigning politician’s corruption. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Pancham Vaidic’s Pulish, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek’s dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh.

  • Padatik’s Beparwah Manto, at Padatik

    Padatik Little Theatre 6/7 A J C Bose Road, Kolkata

    A new dramatization of Manto’s stories, scripted and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. They question very basic aspects of humanity — friendship, independence, slavery, belonging, longing, obscenity, civilization, culture — and if we have progressed at all from when he last held a mirror to his times.

  • 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” play directed by Debasis Majumdar.

  • Padatik’s Kagaz ke Gubbare, at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Dramatized from Ismat Chughtai’s stories and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.