• Curl’s Item, at The Urban Theatre Project

    The Urban Theatre Project Kabir Road, Kolkata

    A genrefluid show incorporating dance, drama and drag. Journeying across cultures, homes and nightclubs, Zizou finds belonging through Zenia Fauxbia Darling—his drag persona—with a little help from some queens he has grown up admiring in Bollywood films, like watching Madhuri Dixit for the first time or learning to dance with Saroj Khan on TV. Written, […]

  • ECTA (New Jersey)’s two Bengali plays, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    Short plays written and directed by Sudipta Bhawmik: Banijye Basate Lakshmi is a solo performance in which Sudipta enacts a motivational speaker delivering a speech on how Bengali entrepreneurs can succeed in business. Paul o Vincent is a period piece set in 1888 that explores the intense, tragic relationship between Gauguin and Van Gogh right up […]

  • Natya Anan’s Meghnad, at Academy

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

    Based on the exceptional life, works, thoughts and times of renowned astrophysicist and nuclear scientist Meghnad Saha, one of the greatest figures who shaped modern India. He fought against caste-based discrimination, orthodox beliefs and divisive politics. His weapon was science. Written by Sudipta Bhawmik and directed by Chandan Sen.

  • Chetana’s Ghashiram Kotwal, at Academy

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

    Vijay Tendulkar's classic political satire directed in Bengali by Sujan Mukhopadhyay. Inaugural performance of Baghajatin Alaap's 2nd international Bengali theatre festival.

  • Emirates Bengal Natyagoshthi (Dubai)’s Prahasan, at Academy

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

    Ujjwal Chattopadhyay's play directed by Kalyan Bhattacharya. Six candidates for the position of assistant to a CEO are locked inside a room for the final selection test. Second production in Baghajatin Alaap's 2nd international Bengali theatre festival.

  • Aneek’s Aksharik, at Academy

    Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Third production in Baghajatin Alaap’s 2nd international Bengali theatre festival. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Bengali one-act plays from Australia and New Zealand, at Academy

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

    Chakravyuha by Ankurshristi Incorporated (Melbourne, Australia) and Sakshi by Not Really (Auckland, New Zealand). Fourth and fifth productions in Baghajatin Alaap's 2nd international Bengali theatre festival.

  • Epic Actors’ Workshop (New Jersey)’s No Man’s Land, at Academy

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

    Based on a short story by Mojaffar Hossain, in which a destitute and injured woman lies helplessly in the no man’s land between the borders of India and Bangladesh and no one comes to her rescue. Directed by Gargi Mukherjee and Golam Sarwan Haroon. Sixth production in Baghajatin Alaap’s 2nd international Bengali theatre festival.

  • Baghajatin Alaap’s Padma Nadir Majhi, at Academy

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

    Manik Bandyopadhyay's classic novel dramatized and directed by Parthapratim Deb. Seventh production in Baghajatin Alaap’s 2nd international Bengali theatre festival.

  • Little Thespian’s Chak, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    The last play written by Little Thespian’s S. M. Azhar Alam,  directed by Uma Jhunjhunwala. About the various challenges faced by Indian Muslims after the conflict in East Pakistan in 1971, through the struggles of one such family whose Indian citizenship is questioned. Read my review. Part of Minerva's National Theatre Festival 2026.