Crisis is redefining the state of theatre in West Bengal at present. Theatre — recently overlooked in all state government notifications — is crawling back to normalcy; that, too, at the e...

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Gone are the days when the month of May would ring a bell in Bengali-dominated regions all over the world, and rehearsals would be in full swing to mark the birth anniversaries of Rabindranath Tagore ...

Continuing with the success of Kojagori, Belgharia Avimukh renewed their association with Howard Fast in Baishe August which premiered at the Academy of Fine Arts on March 3. Kojagori was loosely bas...

Theatre theorists and practitioners generally agree to use light to make objects visible, even while keeping it mostly indiscernible, except when, say, a turn of mood or a plot flashpoint requires emp...

Azaadi Mera Brand, Anuradha Beniwal’s frank and honest travelogue that charts a Rohtak girl’s solitary journey to different parts of India and Europe to discover her true self won admirers...

Rapid criminalization of the public space and rising lumpenization in West Bengal seem to have caught up with Rangroop. After grappling with the after-effects of a gruesome rape in Garal, Rangroop has...

Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories, especially the ones exploring the sombre darkness enveloping the Partition of 1947, have fascinated Indian theatre directors and actors over the last three de...

Art works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, even an assemblage of all the right ingredients will not produce the desired results. A case in point is 10th Planet’s production, Galileo, staged a...

Taramandal, written by Neel Chaudhuri and adapted-directed by Abhrajit Sen, brings stories of people whose lives criss-cross at ironic junctures in pursuit of their dreams. In this café musical...