• Theatre Workshop’s Great Bengal Theatre, at Madhusudan

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

    Dramatist-director Sumitro Bandyopadhyay’s fictionalized depiction of a professional theatre company’s troubles at the time of the Partition of Bengal. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

  • Chetla Krishti Sangsad’s Amar Gan, at Academy

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

  • Angik’s Binodini Opera, at Academy

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

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

  • Pratikriti’s Padma Nadir Majhi, at Rabindra Sadan

    Rabindra Sadan Cathedral Road, Kolkata

    Pratikriti’s Padma Nadir Majhi, Manik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Alok Deb. Highly recommended: ★★★★★

  • Renaissance’s Charandas MLA, at Sisir

    Sisir Mancha 1/1 A J C Bose Road, Kolkata

    Revival of Renaissance’s Hindi production from the 1990s. Dramatized from Satinath Bhaduri’s satirical story by Partha Sarathi Upadhyay and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.

  • Anya Theatre’s Pratham Rajnaitik Hatya, at Academy

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

    Written and directed by Debashis. Based on the freedom fighters arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Rangroop’s Manmayi Girls School, at Academy

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

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

  • Nat-ranga’s Chhayapather Sheshe, at Madhusudan

    Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, 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: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Bandel Arohee’s Kāl Nirabadhi, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    Dramatist-director Ranjan Roy's play presents a Kolkata novelist returning to her ancestral district mansion which her brother has decided to convert into a modern building. Flashbacks give us the complicated history.

  • Swapna-sandhani’s Hamlet, at Academy

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

    Shakespeare’s classic directed by Koushik Sen in a Bengali translation by Chaiti Mitra. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.