October in Berlin: Two experiences that centred around the importance of storytelling.… Read More Etgar Keret at the Jewish Museum Berlin and The Freedom Theatre at Theaterhaus Mitte
Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Pi, a modern dance performance at Pfefferberg Theatre. There is something about bodies moving through space in exceptional ways that is both delightful, energising and emotional — and this performance was no different. … Read More Pi – Petricore Movement & Zentire Music at Pfefferberg Theater
Christmas is here! But despite the sprinkling of snow and Christmas markets popping up everywhere, I hadn’t been feeling the Christmas spirit until I saw A Christmas Carol at theaterforum kreuzberg.… Read More A Christmas Carol at theaterforum kreuzberg
Tess Motherway is an Irish filmmaker, visual artist & film curator, based in Berlin. She will be demonstrating her first performance piece ‘Things Men Have Said To Me This Year’ on Saturday, 16th September at 6pm at Alexanderplatz.… Read More Creative In Berlin: Tess Motherway
Friday evening saw the English Theatre Berlin’s staged reading of Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer.… Read More Informed Consent at the English Theatre Berlin
Museum overnights have become well-established, but I had never heard of a sleepover at a theatre venue before…… Read More Guest Blogger Pat O’Day Sleeps Over at Ballhaus Ost’s Hotel Berlin
Travellers tell tales around camp fires, late into the night when nothing else is stirring…… Read More Two For A Girl at the English Theatre Berlin
Lippy, a theatre piece based on a true incident that occurred in Leixlip, Ireland, where four women committed suicide by starving themselves to death, starts with a postshow discussion.… Read More Lippy at the Schaubühne Berlin
The Last Supper by Ahmed El Attar, currently on as part of the Schaubühne’s Festival International New Drama (FIND), is a fascinating glimpse into the Egyptian bourgeois.… Read More The Last Supper at the Schaubühne Berlin
Fear Industry is not really a play. Rather, it is a montage of movement and sound building on one theme; fear.… Read More Fear Industry at the English Theatre Berlin
Friedrichstadt-Palast – the glitzy show palace in Mitte – recently hosted an illuminating discussion about German and British theatre…… Read More Palast-Talk: British Evening
Lukas is a musical with a difference; modern, minimalist, set in Berlin.… Read More Lukas, A Musical at TiltHAUS
A hundred years ago, on 25th November 1915, Einstein proved his general theory of relativity, transforming our understanding of physical reality. … Read More Transcendence at the English Theatre Berlin
Mars One – Venus Zero is the funny, provocative one-and-a-half-man show currently on at the English Theatre Berlin.… Read More Mars One – Venus Zero at the English Theatre Berlin
Last night, NippleJesus, a one-man play based on a short story by Nick Hornby, premiered at the English Theatre Berlin.… Read More NippleJesus at the English Theatre Berlin
Ratibor Theater ended their season of monthly English Improv last Thursday with an amusing show featuring Joe Bill and Lee White, with accompanying music by Harry Hawaii.… Read More Impro Embassy featuring Joe Bill and Lee White
Thomas Ostermeier’s revival of American playwright Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Schaubühne begins with a dinner party…… Read More The Little Foxes at Berlin’s Schaubühne
Impro Embassy is a fresh and funny English-language show at Ratibor Theatre.… Read More Impro Embassy at Ratibor Theatre
Friday night saw the European premier of Isaac’s Eye – a snappy play tackling the history of science – at the English Theatre Berlin.… Read More Isaac’s Eye at the English Theatre Berlin
I was excited to see the premier of Schwarz Gemacht, the first play to be developed and produced by the English Theatre Berlin, but it fell short…… Read More Schwarz Gemacht at the English Theatre Berlin
Living Room Productions is currently staging two plays by New York playwrights Daniel Sauermilch and Barbara Hammond at the TheaterForum Kreuzberg.… Read More The New York Project at TheaterForum Kreuzberg
Having recently seen Public Enemy at the Young Vic in London, I was keen to see what Berlin’s famous Schaubühne would make of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play.… Read More Theatre: An Enemy of the People at the Schaubühne
Have you been seeing posters like this all over Berlin? Wondering what it’s all about? Guest-blogger Pat O´Day went undercover to find out…… Read More Guest Post: Training day with the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, by Pat O´Day
You would think that a play based on what Primo Levi called “the greatest book about German resistance to the Nazis” (Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone, or Jeder stirbt für sich allein) staged at a reputable theatre (Maxim Gorki in Berlin Mitte) would be watchable, if not enjoyable. Not so. Director Jorinde Dröse has… Read More Every Man Dies Alone at the Maxim Gorki Theatre
An Englishman in Berlin 