• Sayak’s Dharmabatar, at Academy

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

    Premiere of 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.

  • Sayak’s Dharmabatar, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

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

  • Hypokrites’ 16 Pātā, at Gyan Manch

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

    Mohit Chattopadhyaya’s play about two “madmen” in an asylum, directed by Saikat Ghosh.

  • Santoshpur Anuchintan’s Birsa Ka Jungle, at Triguna Sen Auditorium

    Triguna Sen Auditorium Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    An attempt to make people aware of our ancestors' fight to protect the historic Jamkopai forest of Chakradharpur in Jharkhand. The play, developed by dramatist-director Gaurav Das in response to the climate change that threatens our very existence, awakens us to act and protect Mother Nature for future generations. The performers are children and young adults […]

  • Chetana’s Mahatma Banam Gandhi, at Academy

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

    Translated by Arun Mukherjee from Ajit Dalvi’s play on Gandhiji’s relationship with his son, and directed by Sujan Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

  • Rangroop’s Spare Parts, at Academy

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

    Written by Swapnamoy Chakraborty and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. An ordinary man’s rise to money, fame and power lead him astray from his earlier humanity.

  • Jadavpur Ramyani’s Haraner Natjamai, at Madhusudan

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

    Dramatized from Manik Bandyopadhyay and directed by Arun Mukherjee. The story revisits the historic Tebhaga Movement of 1946-47 in Bengal, where Haran, an old sharecropper, has gone half-mad after police killed his son.

  • Chetla Krishti Sangsad’s Amar Gan, at Sisir Mancha

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

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

  • 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 directed by Debasis Majumdar.

  • 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: ★★★★