Bhisham Sahni's play translated and directed by Swatilekha Sengupta.

Inspired by Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi" and other stories. Scripted and directed by Gargi Mukherjee and Golam Sarwar Harun.

A psychiatrist is visited by a young man who has severe hallucinations that connect him to Van Gogh and his paintings, questioning his own reality and that of his surroundings, and longing to visit the alternate reality in the paintings. Excerpts from Van Gogh's life show nearly parallel crises. Dramatized from Srijato’s novel and directed […]

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.

Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.

Revival of their old production, written and directed by Chandan Sen, about the plight of lonely senior citizens.

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

Inspired by Steve Metzger’s awardwinning children’s book Pluto Visits Earth!, the story of a tiny planet but also a beautiful wish that grants love, rejoices in friendship and finds hope in remembering who we actually are. Dramatized by Kallol Lahiri and Alekhya Ghosh, set in Kolkata, and directed by Anamitra Khan. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my […]

Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about the triangle between Tappa pioneer Nidhu-babu, his royal patron-friend Mahananda Ray, and the latter’s mistress Srimati who became Nidhu-babu’s devoted disciple. Directed by Soumitra Mitra.

Written and directed by Suman Sengupta, a portrayal of the dilemma of an accomplished commercial artist who sells out to the ruthless and competitive contemporary ratrace.

Adapted from Pirandello’s Right You Are If You Think So and directed by Arpita Ghosh. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

Sumantra Chattopadhyay's play on the life of the revolutionary Rash Behari Bose, directed by Charnak Chatterjee.

Revival of Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s drama about the crisis of identity and relevance of a Jatra artiste. Directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.

Ujjwal Chattopadhyay's new play on the making of the Moscow Art Theatre's production of Chekhov's The Seagull. Directed by Tapanjyoti Das.

Dramatized from Michael Madhusudan Dutt's epic and directed by Goutam Halder, his long-running solo hit.

Manik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Alok Deb in Pratikriti's long-running production. Highly recommended: ★★★★★

Girish Karnad's play in its old production directed by Alyque Padamsee.

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

Reginald Rose's classic courtroom drama, adapted and directed by Apratim Chatterjee.

The all-women theatre collective Samuho reinterprets Hidimba's story, devised and directed by Titas Dutta. A must-watch: ★★★★. Read my review here.

Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s novel by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, but fruitful in the thirst for knowledge, which some people conspire to capture. Recommended: ★★★★

Written and directed by Malay Ray, inspired by Mallika Sengupta’s novel on Sita’s story rather than Rama’s. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

Dramatized from Narayan Sanyal’s novel by Tirthankar Chanda, about an idealistic teacher. Directed by Ram Mukhopadhyay.

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.

The record-breaking comedy that has had an uninterrupted run since 1972, with over 1200 performances. Written and directed by the late Saroj Ray for his own group Natasena.

Not biographical, but a fictional drama showing the profound influence that film director Rituparno had as an icon. Rakesh Ghosh wrote and directed it in 2013, about a young transgender man teased on the street as “Rituparno”, who wants to join the crowd at Nandan paying homage to his idol after the latter's death.