Two Hindi productions from Mumbai visited over the last month. In Trāsadi, aRANYA’s first play after several years (see Chuhal), at Kolkata Centre for Creativity’s Ami Arts Festival, Manav Kaul

International presence this winter numbered three, but I missed the Toronto Bengali Drama Group’s play. Epic Actors’ Workshop (New Jersey) and an acting duo of graduates from the Royal Academy

2023 marked the birth sesquicentennial of one trailblazing artist, Gauhar Jaan, and the centenary of another, Mrinal Sen, who formed the subjects of two separate theatrical tributes in Bengali. The

A couple of heavyweights in Bengali theatre experimented this year with hour-length one-acts instead of their standard full-fledged repertoire. Both Nandikar and Chetana coincidentally attempted three-handers on relationships featuring two

Kolkata Centre for Creativity looks poised to take over the mantle of our city’s national theatre festival by expanding its AMI Arts Festival from its home location to utilize regular

There are two ways of assessing 7:40 ki Ladies Special by Aawara Theatre Group (Mumbai, presented in Kolkata by Sanskriti Sagar), in terms of social inclusivity, and in terms of

Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s twin pack on progenitors of early 19th-century Bengali music and theatre definitely illuminates a past largely unknown to the general public. On the downside, however, he persists in

Violence—global and local—forms an unsettling theme in the latest productions by two primarily Hindi-language groups, Padatik / rikh- and The Creative Arts Academy. Vinay Sharma loves to send me scurrying

For a Hindi–Urdu theatre group in Kolkata to sustain continuous activity for three decades signifies dedication and resilience against all odds. I felicitate Little Thespian on reaching the milestone of

At KCC’s laudable birth-centenary homage to Habib Tanvir, two world premieres expressed through their art what most of the speakers did not dare to mention specifically in the most important