The 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...
View ArticleBetween the Lines. Briefe aus Bissau
In this quietly melancholy epistolary drama, filmmaker Katja Kunt investigates the life of her aunt, who, in the 1980s, left East Germany for a man from the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
View ArticleIt Can’t Happen Here
Director Christopher Rüping has adapted Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 satirical novel to evoke today’s demagoguery on both sides of the pond, mixing Trumpian riffs with references to European calls for...
View ArticleFeminista, Baby!
Directors Tom Kühnel and Jürgen Kuttner stage an adaptation of the radical feminist SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, whose anti-male diatribe became famous after she shot Andy Warhol in 1968, with...
View ArticleOriginal Sin: Susanne Sachße and Xiu Xiu
Berlin stage and screen starlet Susanne Sachße joins forces with Xiu Xiu and artist Phil Collins for a tribute to her rebellious, taboo-breaking grandmother who lived in the GDR.
View ArticleMontag Modus #16 Uncertain Distances
The beautifully Peter P. Schweger-designed space on Dorotheenstraße is opened up to artists for a full evening of site specific performances and installations. Tonight: János Brückner, Viktória Dányi,...
View ArticleKennedy versus Castorf
REVIEW! The figureheads of the new and old Volksbühne square off with two new plays – and two very different aesthetics.
View ArticleThe Weird Show
Need some light escapism to ease those winter blues? After selling out Berlin shows since 2016, Berlin's English-language sketch comedy group will present their impressive new show, combining dance,...
View ArticleCTM: Total entertainment forever
Founded in 1999 as a one-off Transmediale side programme, CTM has become its own beast, engulfing every hot performer, genre and format that could possibly constitute “adventurous music and art”. It's...
View ArticleFace the future: Transmediale
The 31-year-old confluence of art, culture and technology returns Jan 31 (through Feb 4) to HKW under the banner "Face Value" with, among other things, 30 3D-printed portraits made from Chelsea...
View ArticleAnajara Amarante & Sara Lu
As part of performance series Bande à Part, Anajara Amarante and Sara Lu explore themes of sin and catharsis, fear and courage, coercion and freedom through a night of contemporary dance, with two...
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