GERMANY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 13

The Berlin Philharmonic returned for performances on Saturday, March 27, and 1,000 tickets were sold in three minutes.

Live performances are resuming in Berlin - for those who bring with them to the theatre a negative COVID test.

The lockdown in Germany is now being extended until at least April 18, 2021.

Berlin’s department of culture has come up with a pilot project allowing for a limited number of coronavirus-compliant performances.

Klaus Doerr, manager of Berlin's Volksbuehne theater, has announced that he is stepping down following accusations of bully and sexual harassment.

Klauss Dörr, the director of the Volksbühne theater resigned yesterday after accusations of 'sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment, and humiliating older actresses' were made public in the German press.

After his studio concert Mark Seibert decided to do a live streaming concert at the Ebertbad (Oberhausen) on Valentine’s Day, which was produced by SOUND OF MUSIC and for which he invited Marle Martens and Thomas Holer.

Bang on a Can has announced the lineup and full schedule for the Bang on a Can Marathon Live Online – MaerzMusik Edition presented by Berliner Festspiele on Sunday, March 21, 2021 from 3pm-7pm ET / 8pm-12am CET.

Nicole Braunger, the first woman opera director at Staatstheater Karlsruhe, will remain with the theater for three more years, until the summer of 2024.

The Dresden Music Festival is currently preparing for its 44th festival season from May 14 to June 12, 2021.

Carolin Fortenbacher cannot be stereotyped.

For over thirty years, Edith Schröder has been Neukölln's best-known ambassador worldwide.

The new production of Leoš Janáček's 'Jenůfa' directed by Damiano Michieletto, who is making his Staatsoper Berlin debut, and under the musical direction of Sir Simon Rattle, should have been the first premiere of 2021.

Dutch National Opera has announced an online presentation of Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.

Chloe Lopes Gomes is Berlin State Ballet's first black dancer, and she is fighting back against the company's alleged racism.

In a step aimed at containing the current pandemic, the Saxon Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism announced yesterday that Dresden’s public theatres will remain closed up to and including 31 March 2021.

A new study co-commissioned by the Dortmund Konzerthaus states that concert halls can operate at 50% capacity with ‘almost no risk’ of infection from Covid-19.

Theaters and opera houses in the Hessen, Germany will shut down until at least the beginning of April 2021.

Deutsches Theater will show Woyzeck Interrupted as DT.

Schwarzer Block by Kevin Rittberger is a play about anti-fascism as a Sisyphean project, about a 100 year history of left-wing militancy as an attempt to stop the Nazis’ reign of terror, about the contradiction between emancipation and group.

Bei uns von Montag bis Mittwoch den ganzen Tag weitergeprobt und Donnerstag dann aufgezeichnet.

Unforgettable hits such as 'Waterloo', 'Fernando', 'Take A Chance On Me', 'Dancing Queen', 'Mamma Mia', 'Money Money Money' and, of course, 'Thank You for the Music', still have the power, as they did back then, to bring the audience to their feet.

Lin-Manuel Mirandas HAMILTON hat das Genre Musical neu definiert.

Mary Stuart, the Catholic Queen of Scotland, has fled from her people, who accuse her of murdering her husband.

In a recent interview, Uschi Neuss, Managing Director of Stage Entertainment Germany, answers questions about changes to the  schedule and a possible reopening of the musical theater.