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
Much like the now-celebrated Je Jānlāgulor Ākāsh Chhilo and produced around the same time, Angan’s Nilāmbālā Chhe Ānā pivots the spotlight on life in Kolkata’s refugee “colonies” over the decades
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
Two productions from outside Kolkata came to festivals held in December. Nandikar’s National Theatre Festival hosted the National School of Drama Repertory Company (Sikkim)’s Bhāsa-bhāratam, an unprecedented concept. At director
