A different kind of cooking show
Pick up the fork and the smart device! "Thirsting for Salt" is a multi-part experimental performance and installation tying together culture, family, technology and, of course, food Jul 20-21....
View ArticleFortnight at the circus
Everybody hates a clown and maybe that's why the circus gets such a bad rap (that and the animal issues). The Berlin Circus Festival promises fun without almost none of that. Check it out on...
View ArticleUnder(dog) art: Olle Strandberg
INTERVIEW! In 2005 Olle Strandberg broke his neck during a somersault. With the exclellent "Underart: Ode to a Crash Landing" the Swedish circus director contemplates his own paralysis and recovery, on...
View ArticleNacho goes nuts
Not been to the ballet yet? Why not start with its most accessible of all Christmas ballets... Playing at the Deutsche Oper, the Nacho Duato and Staatsballett’s new version of The Nutcracker is...
View ArticleTragedy to farce
Alexander Karschnia, one-third of the free-scene collective Andcompany&Co, reveals what makes his theatre company tick.
View ArticleFood for thought: Berlin Food Art Week
A Garden of Eden for vegetarians, a challenge to those that cherish meat and the opportunity to contemplate cannibalism and vampirism: All this awaited stage editor Lily Kelting at Berlin Food Art...
View ArticleTanz im August: Reopening the old suitcase
Summer dance festival Tanz im August is back (Aug 11-Sep 2) at venues all over the city. Don't miss a retrospective of Spanish dancer and performance artist La Ribot (highlighted here) and read on for...
View ArticleHitting the right notes
It’s a good time to be an opera fan in Berlin. Here’s a look at the revitalised scene. Three operas – "Die schöne Hélèna", "Pelléas et Mélisande" and "Le Prophète" – offer fans and newbies alike...
View ArticleNah Dran 67
At Ufer Studios’ recurring showcase, three young Berlin choreographers present their work in an intimate, “up close” setting. It’s a bit of a crap shoot, but the up-and-comers often offer surprises...
View ArticleOpening of Monom
This month marks the opening of Monom, the Funkhaus’ state-of-the-art venue for spatial aka “4D” sound. Test your eardrums with two weeks of immersive works from the likes of Thomas Ankersmit, and get...
View ArticleThe Show Must Go On
Choreographer Jérôme Bel has become known for diverse casting that includes disabled people in works such as his 2001 crowd-pleaser The Show Must Go On, revived this month at the Volksbühne.
View ArticleSieben
Thikwa (Hebrew for ‘hope’), which shares its Kreuzberg venue with the English Theatre, emphasises dance and new works, like this month’s Sieben, a choreographed “amoral song play” about the performers’...
View ArticleIdole muss mann feiern wie sie fallen
RambaZamba Theater's artistic director Jacob Höhne wants his audience to be as diverse as his casts. We’ll see if this month’s premiere, this piece about role models by Kathrin Herm, proves as divisive...
View ArticleBande à Part: Christopher Erk – D a r k S t e p p
As part of Eschschloraque’s dance and performance series Bande à Part, come and see New York’s dynamic tap dancing maestro Christopher Erk grace this Berlin stage with his new show, with sound and...
View ArticleKreatur
Sasha Waltz’s recent choreographic work, exploring the movement between dominance and submission, freedom and control, and togetherness and isolation, premiered this past June to rave reviews and now...
View ArticleCome As You Are #Berlin
Israeli choreographer Nir de Volff and his Total Brutal company created this piece with three refugee dancers from Syria who explore their adjustment to Berlin’s contemporary dance scene – and to...
View ArticleSlime Dynamics
Siegmar Zacharias is bringing 200 litres of slime onto the Sophiensaele stage for three dancers to slide around in – supposedly a metaphor for our unstable, fluid world – in a piece that explores form...
View ArticleAnatevka
A German version of Fiddler on the Roof directed by Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper? Hard to believe this won’t be a crowd-pleaser. Premieres Dec 3 at 18:00, preceded at 15:00 by a podium discussion...
View ArticleLes Misérables
Like the plague victim in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, Frank Castorf’s not dead yet – and this month, he premieres his stage version of Victor Hugo’s novel at the Berliner Ensemble, his first production...
View ArticleWomen in Trouble
Follow protagonist Angelina Dreem as she switches between realities in Susanne Kennedy's Women in Trouble, the first proper theatre piece to be staged at the Volksbühne under new artistic director...
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