An avant-garde Berlin director has sold out a 2,000-seat venue that usually draws crowds with death-defying acrobatics or rousing musical numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMUnder a new artistic director, this season at Austria’s main playhouse includes 30 premieres, ranging from classical dramas to brand-new works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48AMTwo Berlin productions find different types of comedy in the great 17th-century playwright’s works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54AMStage productions of “Anna Karenina” and “Don Quixote” turn sprawling novels into gripping theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AMBerlin’s theater season opens with directors taking audiences through the fog of war, down the gloomy tunnels of cyberspace and into a world without hope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54AM‘European democracy is, and always has been, a racist construct,’ according to the organizers of the Ruhrtrienniale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMThomas Ostermeier’s new production of “Youth Without God” is the centerpiece of the drama offerings at this year’s event.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM“Tree” and “Invisible Cities,” two blockbuster works, lack the impact of the festival’s more intimate experiences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12AMTheatertreffen Berlin gathers the best productions from around Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24AMElfriede Jelinek’s latest, “Am Königsweg,” is one of several new productions of Austrian plays that engage with contemporary political realities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:41AMIn recent seasons, Odon von Horvath has become one of the most performed playwrights in the German-speaking world. But who is he, and why is he so popular now?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AMThe Schaubühne’s FIND Festival showcases new theater from around the world, from Brussels to Santiago, Chile, and Montreal to Barcelona, Spain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:29AMThroughout Germany, ambitious modern reinventions of plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus argue for the timelessness of these ancient works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:23AMProductions in the region often take liberties with the text. But in stagings of Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams, the directors (mostly) stick to the script.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AMFrom “The Sound of Music” in Salzburg, Austria, to “Candide” in Berlin, German-speaking theaters are bringing fresh appeal to repertory staples.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04AMSeveral new productions this season that take their cue from European film classics from the 1960s and ’70s, with adaptations of Visconti, Bergman and Polanski.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48AMProductions in Berlin and Munich grapple with issues that shape our world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18AMKirill Serebrennikov, under house arrest in Moscow, is staging a production of “Così Fan Tutte” in Zurich through a process closer to espionage than traditional theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMNo playwright is more respected in Germany than Shakespeare. Some productions just have a strange way of showing it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48AM“Dionysos Stadt” is a 10-hour epic inspired by the Greek classics that traces the arc of human drama. It’s just one of many new productions on Munich’s stages.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMThe Ruhrtrienniale festival in Germany presents unpredictable works in postindustrial settings. But this year controversy has overshadowed the event.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMIt’s an event more associated with classical music, but drama is in its D.N.A. Two productions of German-language classics at the festival show differing approaches.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMTwo plays at one of the city’s most important theaters make the case for accepting displaced people, as politics there is turning against them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48AMFrom Édouard Louis’s novel “History of Violence” to Boccaccio’s 14th-century “Decameron,” German theaters love to mount literary adaptations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMFrank Castorf led Berlin’s Volksbühne for a quarter century. One of his last productions is being presented again in a showcase of the year’s best German theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMRestrained stagings of Schiller and Shakespeare are vital and exciting, but a production based on the New Testament falls flat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18AMA German residency for the Gogol Center, a leading Moscow avant-garde group, drew attention to the plight of its leader, Kirill S. Serebrennikov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:41PMThree plays in Munich and Berlin explore revolutionary ideas and utopian dreams.
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