• Naye Natua’s Maimansingha Gitika, at Academy

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

    Dramatized from the folktale of Mahuya by Dwija Kanai and directed by Goutam Halder. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.

  • Naye Natua’s Mitali, at Academy

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

    Actor-director Goutam Halder has dramatized Mitali from Dostoevsky’s short story “White Nights”, about a young man who narrates how he fell in love with a woman.

  • Rosikata’s Andhakarer Utsa Hote, at Academy

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

    New play on the nature of art, written, directed and songs composed by Abhijnan Bhattacharya. About the encounter of a theatre group led by an idealistic ex-Naxalite and a group of goons led by a political mercenary.

  • Chakdah Natyajan’s Barricade, at Gyan Manch

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

    Revival of Utpal Dutt’s Barricade, about the Nazis’ strategies of establishing fascism democratically, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Sansriti’s Khokkas, at Academy

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

    Adapted from Evgeny Schwartz’s satirical Russian play The Dragon (1944) by Arpita Ghosh and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. A village terrorized by a dragon finds an unlikely saviour.

  • Prachya’s Quarantine, at Academy

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

    Adapted into Bengali from Arthur Miller’s classic A View from the Bridge, about illegal migrants, by Kaberi Basu and directed by Buddhadeb Das.

  • 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.

  • 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: ★★★★

  • Sansriti’s Kothakar Charitra Kothay Rekhechha, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Translated from Pirandello’s metatheatrical classic Six Characters in Search of an Author by Rudraprasad Sengupta and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.