Theatre

“Lights Up!” – the brand-new, completely improvised musical in two acts – as unpredictable as it is unforgettable! Inspired solely by suggestions from the audience, the ensemble weaves a hilarious story... more

The Globe Ensemble Berlin brings Shakespeare's most frequently performed tragedy to the stage in the best folk theater tradition. more

Oskar Matzerath has barely been born when he recognises the world to be a universal disaster – and rejects it entirely. Only the tin drum promised to him by his mother offers him an acceptable perspective... 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

Abandoned sleeping mats, rusty camping chairs, plastic waste. An athletic hiker in bright outdoor gear, a talkative scientist, and a barefoot prophet with a visionary gaze. Then, suddenly, it speaks: the... 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

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

Artistic Team Florentina Holzinger – Direction, Choreography, Performance Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Stefan Schneider – Musical Direction Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Josephinex Ashley... more

With Balkan Erotic Epic, performance icon Marina Abramović returns to her roots – transforming Balkan myths into a rapturous ritual of body, shame and life force. An intense invocation of the erotic as... more

What country do you think you live in? Karl-Konrad knows the answer, and it's different than you might expect: the key is Angela Merkel. Because her big moments over the last 35 years have also been our... more

Maureen and Markus have been pen pals for years. While Maureen is serving a life sentence in prison, Markus is part of the Markus&Markus Theaterkollektiv. When Markus sends Maureen the theme of the monologue... more

We are not alone. An alien has been sighted. It seems to be searching for its home and contact with others of its kind. Mysterious events and a trail of devastation follow. An FBI agent takes on the case... more

Out of the night rain, a stranger appears. It is Kurt, an Israeli chicken farmer returning to Germany, to the very house where he was given refuge as a Gestapo prisoner and in return was to father a child... more

MAMI tells of mothers, of closeness and separation, of what is passed on. In a wordless, ritual visual theatre, Mario Banushi shapes personal memory into an intense experience between birth, desire and... more