Theatre

Barrie Kosky transforms Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Threepenny Opera" into a big-city ballad about people seeking happiness in a functional, sober world. more

Part of MONO:MONO A summer night's cycle of queer tales with tender playful music from the Renaissance takes us to Florence. Together with their protagonist, the stage directors duo Vöcks de Schwindt... more

Wingspan by Nicholas Alder ‘Crows know no borders, and they fly high above paperwork.’ In a life hollowed by bureaucracy, Lawrence’s world collapses in the shadow of an expiring resident's badge, and... more

Part of MONO:MONO A touching solo performance about a queer man caring for his ageing father while trying not to repeat the violence he grew up with. Caught between duty and exhaustion, love and anger,... more

Meet Poland - the country on the West of East, the country on the East of West. polskie impro berlin has invited the members of the international impro community to explore Poland and its history. Who... more

Evil dominates the headlines, while good appears only as a side note—a serious imbalance for the perception of reality. A young woman in Berlin sets out on a search for good together with a combative silver... more

Wingspan by Nicholas Alder ‘Crows know no borders, and they fly high above paperwork.’ In a life hollowed by bureaucracy, Lawrence’s world collapses in the shadow of an expiring resident's badge, and... more

The termination of a pregnancy is a very private but also a highly political decision. "Happening" by Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the unsparing account of an illegal abortion... more

Dialectics of Erasure is a participatory lecture-performance by Palestinian-German artist-scholar Mudar Al-Khufash that invites you, the audience, to participate in unraveling the mechanism sustaining... more

“To understand the world we live in, we have to know how we love – because if we know how we love, we understand how we can save the world.” more

The Ancestral Supper Interdisciplinary work Von: Diasporakidz Premiere: Donnerstag 17.07. 20:00 Uhr The Ancestral Supper is a new interdisciplinary work exploring ancestral legacy, with integrations... more

Free entry! No cover! Open to all! On the night of April 30th, Hexenfeuer burn across Germanic and Nordic lands. Traditionally lit to mark the arrival of spring and ward off witches and evil spirits,... more

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Translation by Burkhart Kroeber Adapted for the stage by Pınar Karabulut and Hannah Schünemann Schauspielhaus Zurich Premiere: 29.11.2025   In the finely detailed... more

A memory play by Tennessee Williams Theater Basel Premiere: 30.1.2025   In Die Glasmenagerie (The Glass Menagerie), Jaz Woodcock-Stewart and her team present an intimate portrait of a dysfunctional... more

A slaughter feast in seven courses adapted from Friedrich Schiller Münchner Kammerspiele Premiere: 4.10.2025   Jan-Christoph Gockel’s spectacular interpretation of Wallenstein takes us directly inside... more