theatre
Artists to get faster unemployment benefits
Germany’s cabinet approved a new rule on Wednesday to provide unemployment benefits to artists more quickly than other professions because the nature of their work is often based on short-term projects.
Being Berlin’s culture monkey
Braving a chaotic, frustrated crowd of 20,000 people, Ben Knight spends his Saturday evening as a bus guide during Berlin's first ever Long Night of Opera and Theatre.
Over There: When reunification doesn't bring reconciliation
<b>With this year marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mark Ravenhill's new play “Over There” makes separated identical twins into a metaphor for the reunification of Germany. Ben Knight talks to co-director Ramin Gray.</b>
Karl May production makes cowboy casting call
Germans looking to live out their Wild West fantasies of being a gunslinging cowboy or Indian are in luck: the Karl May festival in Bad Segeberg needs experienced horseback riders as extras for this summer’s performance.
Happy birthday Heiner Müller
<b>The eastern German dramatist Heiner Müller was born eighty years ago on Friday. As the cultural establishment salutes his legend, Daniel Miller questions his legacy.</b>
Delayed stage version of 'The Lives of Others' almost finished
Playwright Albert Ostermaier has almost finished his long-delayed stage version of the Oscar-winning German film 'The Lives Of Others.'
Berlin production brings theatre to youth offenders
<b>Can theatre be therapeutic? Ben Knight visits <i>Kaspar H.</i> – the latest prison production performed by inmates of the young offender’s detention centre in Berlin.</b>
Verdi opera with 35 naked seniors sells out
The ruins of the World Trade Center and naked senior citizens wearing Mickey Mouse masks will share a stage Saturday, when a German theatre's sell-out reinterpretation of a Verdi opera opens.
The art of discovering Frankfurt
<b>Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt has the reputation of being a grey place full of boring bankers. But Kasia Dawidowska discovers it’s actually not so dull along the banks of the Main River after all.</b>
‘Satanic Verses’ premiere passes off peacefully
The first ever stage play based on Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” passed off without incident in Germany on Sunday with police in attendance in case of disturbances.