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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Urban Theatre Project TUTP), now just over a year old, has become a nucleus for solo or minimalistic performance in a studio setting, serving both local and touring productions.
Kolkata’s most up-and-coming English-language dramatist (admittedly within a minuscule pool), Ahon Gooptu, reiterated two of his earlier works in December-January. The first, Item, had inaugurated The Urban Theatre Project in
The strongest Bengali-language American dramatist, Sudipta Bhawmik, had two plays on the Kolkata stage this season, both biographical. Natya-Anan’s Meghnad (at Nandikar’s National Festival) presents the first literary expression of
