Thursday, January 8, 2026
Bremen’s Packhaustheater set its agenda with a focus on the local, so as not to compete with the municipal theatre, the two comedy theatres, the Bremer Shakespeare Company and the theatre …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:49AMFriday, January 2, 2026
The play Nebenan was premiered at Burgtheater Wien in 2022, based on the film of the same title (international title: Next Door) by Daniel Brühl (2021) in a production directed by the then …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:11PMThursday, January 1, 2026
In 2019, Landestheater Salzburg used a new translation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People as the basis for a version of the play in which Dr Katrine Stockmann was female, a single mother to…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:07PMFriday, December 12, 2025
When the production first opened in 2022, critics commented on the fact that the play was being presented at Deutsches Theater although Pollesch was then the artistic manager of Volksbühne.…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:44AMThursday, December 4, 2025
Theater Bremen is currently showing the world premiere production of Der Zauberer von Öz – Eine Fußballtragödie by Akin Emauel Şipal. The play is about football player Mesut Özil (b. …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:29AMFriday, November 28, 2025
Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the White Horse) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm (1817-1888), which Storm completed just months before his death. It has been acknowledged as amo…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:48PMThursday, November 20, 2025
Since August 2019, I have owned and run the chamber theatre, piccolo teatro Haventheater, in Bremerhaven. The theatre seats a total of 54; it was founded in 2011 by my predecessor, actor and…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 11:00AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first presented in Germany at Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2009. It is based on the 1942 film of the…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:17AMMonday, October 27, 2025
This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare’s play as the starting and end point, in the German version by Heiner Müller, with additional material from Müller’s Hamletmaschine,…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AMFriday, October 10, 2025
The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100 houses, has had a long history. First mentioned in the 13th century, the oldest parts of extant bu…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:55AMTuesday, September 9, 2025
At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from first rehearsals to opening night, or until the last performance. In any one season, such ass…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:37AMMonday, August 25, 2025
In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located between Bremen and Hannover in Lower Saxony, to arrange large-scale theatre productions, in the f…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:57AMSunday, August 24, 2025
Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as Landesbühnen and some privately owned theatres have an institutional holiday season of six to eig…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:50AMMonday, July 28, 2025
Germany’s theatre landscape is very rich indeed. Many cities have publicly owned and funded buildings with their own resident companies, other cities receive, in their local theatre buildi…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:42AM 
