LA ILAAJ (Lā-ilāj)
Screen to stage comebacks face critical scepticism because the stars’ popularity generates full houses whereas the theatrical product fails to equal the best standards in the art but, since most
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DEBI SITALAR SANDHANE | ANGINA JURE BHOR | DANA
Happily for Bengali theatre, I can announce the presence of a new, original dramatist-director, Gaurav Das, who founded Santoshpur Anuchintan with its own studio space, and has now created full-length
PAGLA GHODA | PASHMINA | PAR PAZEB NA BHIGE
For Jashn-e-Azhar 2026, Little Thespian invited three Hindi groups from outside Kolkata. Ekrang (Mumbai) paid homage to Badal Sircar with Pratibha Agrawal’s faithful translation, Paglā Ghodā, directed by Jayant Deshmukh.
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BASABADAL | EK LAMHA ZINDAGI
Kolkata Centre for Creativity’s programming continues to bring theatre from outside, particularly enabling us to view small-scale productions that fit their space and otherwise may not get invited to regular
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MEGHE DHAKA GHATAK | SANKO
Ritwik Ghatak’s centenary began in November, and Bengali theatre has celebrated it so far with two tribute productions: a biography and a revival. Meghe Dhākā Ghatak continues Chetana’s ongoing success
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JE JANLAGULOR AKASH CHHILO
Je Jānlāgulor Ākāsh Chhilo achieves another success for Ichheymoto. Based on two stories from Rahul Arunoday Banerjee’s book Kalkātā Kyākophoni (Cacophony), the dramatization by Saurav Palodhi conjures a profound sense of
PRASANGA: PREM
In the last of this winter’s international gigs, Sudrak hosted Aaloron from Keighley, Yorkshire, who anthologized four of Tagore’s love stories. The script by Kolkata-based Shailen Patro and Dilip Banerjee
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PASHMINA | ADHE ADHURE
Rangakarmee has made their founder Usha Ganguli proud not merely by attaining the major milestone of a golden jubilee (which several groups reach as a matter of time, without sustaining
GUARDS AT THE TAJ | GULABIJAAN
It is heartening to find new productions in Urdu based on history, one by a young group and the other a troupe of long standing, both with one foot in
RANGIN RUMAL | A STUPID COMMON MAN
Let’s look at Minerva’s National Theatre Festival 2026 statistically. It brought ten of the seventeen invitees from outside Bengal—a creditable majority, hypothetically allowing audiences to watch a number of external
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SOMETHING LIKE TRUTH … | KADAMBARI | KALGITURA
To my pleasant surprise, the National Theatre Festival 2026 organized by Minerva Natya Sanskriti Charcha Kendra, criticized by me for its arbitrary selection in past years, exhibited some thoughtful curating
NO MAN’S LAND | PRAHASAN
Baghajatin Alaap continued its initiative of the Kolkata International Bengali Theatre Festival for the second year with a three-day edition featuring four foreign groups from as far apart as the