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NATIONALTHEATER MANNHEIM

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Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg 68161



Review: SWEENEY TODD at Stadttheater Bremerhaven


by Konstantin Georgiou - February 09, 2026

Wer Tim Burtons Film liebt, wird von der handwerklichen Wucht dieser Bremerhavener Inszenierung begeistert sein. Ein absolut lohnenswerter Theaterabend!...

Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at English Theatre, Frankfurt


by André Böke - February 08, 2026

“Welcome to the Renaissance!” – after an odyssey of obstacles and hindrances, continental Europe’s biggest English-language theatre venue has finally reopened its gates with a true musical banger: “Something Rotten”! has returned to Frankfurt, featuring a cast and production that establi...

Review: KINKY BOOTS at Metronom Theater Oberhausen


by Konstantin Georgiou - January 26, 2026

Ein rundum gelungener Musicalabend in einem großartigen Theater, getragen von einem starken Ensemble und einer mutigen, absolut richtigen Entscheidung für die Originalsprache. Genau so darf Musical sein....

Review: DISNEY'S TARZAN THE MUSICAL at Stage Theater Neue Flora


by Martin Ganeider - January 17, 2026

What did our critic think of DISNEY'S TARZAN THE MUSICAL at Stage Theater Neue Flora?...

Review: MRS. DOUBTFIRE at Capitol Theater Düsseldorf


by Konstantin Georgiou - December 08, 2025

Ein respektvoll weitergedachter Klassiker, mit Energie, Herz und einem Cast, der die Bühne wirklich belebt. Ein Stück, das auch ohne Filmnostalgie funktioniert – aber mit ihr umso mehr Spaß macht....

Review: OLIVER EDWARD IN CONCERT- THE LOOM SESSION at Duckland Hamburg


by Martin Ganeider - December 03, 2025

The star of the hit musical &Julia, currently playing at the Stage Operettenhaus in Hamburg, invited audiences to an intimate solo concert on December 1st at Duckland Hamburg....

Past Shows

Simon Boccanegra
Jul 25

In the 14th century Genoa, civil war. The people will overthrow the nobility and selects the Corsairs of Simon Boccanegra for Doge. It hopes to...

The Turn of the Screw
Jul 6 – Jul 24, 2013

A disturbing story about the struggle of the supposedly good against the apparently evil, about the loss of innocence and deadly obsession: a young governess...

Company
Jun 20 – Jul 21, 2013

American for beginners: by the time you are 35, you ought to own a decent apartment in one of the trendy districts of the »Big...

Otello
May 29 – Jul 16, 2013

Otello, the new Governor of Cyprus, reached the island after victorious battle and violent storm. The Ensign Iago hates the colored Otello, because this Cassio...

Scenes from Goethe's Faust
May 17 – Jul 14, 2013

The life of Faust, who after immortality, first strives for earthly knowledge and magic (Faust I), then for the greatest beauty and energy (Faust II),...

Twilight of the gods
Mar 22 – Jul 7, 2013

The Nornen give an account of Wotan's destruction of the world ash tree and of the destruction of his spear and contracts by Siegfried. Walhalla...

Die Walküre
May 25 – Jun 30, 2013

Wotan fathered the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde with a human woman. Because a free hero should do what he cannot himself as guardian of the...

Das Rheingold
Apr 11 – Jun 28, 2013

The dwarf Alberich steals the Rheingold the Rhine daughters and can it forge a camouflage helmet and a ring is, which gives him immense power....

The parasite
Jun 21

Social climber Selicour will do anything at all to get himself recommended to his minister Narbonne for the post of ambassador. Rivals such as hard-working...

The magic flute
Feb 28 – Jun 9, 2013

Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the...

The girl of the Golden West
Apr 14 – Jun 5, 2013

California 1849/1850: Red Indians, gold diggers and the sheriff and his men live here in bitter poverty; the only distraction in this hopelessness is from...

A new piece
Jun 1

After supernova (wie gold entsteht), Philipp Löhle, the resident author of the past season, is writing another work commissioned by the Nationaltheater Mannheim. As in...

Avenue Q
Mar 23 – May 26, 2013
Eugen Onegin
Mar 24 – May 20, 2013

"Life is not a novel.” Driven by the sobering reality of life, Tschaikovsky, uses a constellation of four young people to create a range of...

Parsifal
Apr 20 – May 19, 2013

The King of the Grail, Amfortas, suffers from an incurable wound. He was injured when succumbed to the seduction of the beautiful Kundry in the...

Il barbiere di Siviglia
Mar 7 – May 18, 2013

Count Almaviva is in love with Rosina. That is why he tries to enter the house of her uncle Bartolo in a very tricky manner....

Tosca
Apr 7 – May 12, 2013

“The butcher working in the garment of the amiable" may describe the political situation in Rome in 1800. The ruthless secret police under the direction...

Chamber music for the premiere of "The idiot"
Apr 14 – May 5, 2013

Vineyard last Opera is based on the homonymous Roman Dostojewskis. Formed between Prince Myschkin, a Russian Don Quixote, the rich and dark Rogoshin, the beautiful...

The little Prince
Apr 27

The melancholy fairytale of the Little Prince was published in the middle of the Second World War. It tells of a bizarre journey from star...

Werther
Mar 20 – Apr 13, 2013

Overflowing with yearning and heartbreaking melancholy, Massenet’s most romantic tragedy is inspired by a true story of unrequited love. The passionate James Valenti returns to...

Woyzeck
Apr 6

The soldier Woyzeck is in love with Marie and her child. Apart from serving his captain, he earns something extra from the doctor by subjecting...

Tartuffe
Mar 7 – Mar 31, 2013

Tartuffe is one of the most well-known and most popular comedies by the great French playwright Molière, and is also ever-popular on German-speaking stages. Tartuffe,...

Heiden
Mar 1 – Mar 29, 2013

Marina and her husband Oleg live together with their 19-year-old daughter in humble circumstances. Marina works as an estate agent with only moderate success, Oleg...

Bunny
Mar 2 – Mar 25, 2013

Katie is a teenager in Luton, England. In a rapid monologue, she tells of a seemingly normal afternoon, which becomes an unforgettable adventure, as her...

The whole world
Mar 19

Regina and Richard have kindly refused the invitation of their young neighbors. In the past they were always the last to leave the parties. Now...

THE OTHER PLACE
Mar 10

THE other place, this is the place on the Juliana Smithon, neurologist and Wissen­schaftlerin, lived for many years with her husband Ian, an oncologist, and...

Three to One
Mar 9

This year marks the 10th anniversary season of Ballet Mannheim, under the directorship of Kevin O’Day and his associate Dominique Dumais. In this premiere Mr....

The Threepenny Opera
Mar 8

Bertolt Brecht's Dreigroschenoper is the world's most popular German play of the twentieth century. After its premiere in Berlin in 1928, the war-tossed population already...

V. Akademiekonzert
Mar 4 – Mar 5, 2013
Thomas Siffling's Nightmoves
Mar 4

THE PRIMITIVES...

An and a
Mar 7 – Feb 26, 2013

Grete and Jakob are academics in precarious job situations, and in their work deal with love lyrics and the social constructions of desire. They have...

Werther
Nov 17 – Jan 31, 2013

Overflowing with yearning and heartbreaking melancholy, Massenet’s most romantic tragedy is inspired by a true story of unrequited love. The passionate James Valenti returns to...

Die Zauberflöte
Nov 16 – Jan 25, 2013

Mozart’s penultimate work is perhaps also his most puzzling one. Tamino’s escape and unconsciousness open up the first act. When he is awoken with the...

Turandot
Oct 13 – Jan 18, 2013

Princess Turandot never wants to belong to a man. All her suitors are therefore given a mystery. Those, who do not find the answer, will...

Die Brüder Löwenherz
Nov 29 – Dec 26, 2012

In the legendary land of Nangijala, Krümel is finally liberated from his bow-legs and permanent cough, and only his timidness is still stuck in his...

Temistocle
Sep 29 – Dec 20, 2012
Three to One (UA)
Oct 27 – Dec 18, 2012

This year marks the 10th anniversary season of Ballet Mannheim, under the directorship of Kevin O’Day and his associate Dominique Dumais. In this premiere Mr....

The Outcast (UA)
Oct 14 – Dec 5, 2012

COMMISSIONED BY THE NATIONAL THEATRE MANNHEIM...

I'm with the band (UA)
Oct 12 – Nov 4, 2012

When ballet director Kevin O’Day, the New York composer John King and a group of musicians meet to create a new piece, many things are...

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
Nov 3

Brecht wrote his » chronicle from the Thirty Years' War « in 1939, and it received its world première in 1941 at the Züricher Schauspielhaus,...

Lohengrin
Oct 27 – Nov 1, 2012

The Count of Telramund and his wife Ortrud attempt to interrogate Elsa, sister of the murdered Duke Gottfried. "From a distant land" the unknown knight...

Operngala
Oct 3 – Oct 31, 2012

MIT SOLISTEN UND DEM NATIONALTHEATERORCHESTER...

Bunny (DSE)
Oct 13 – Oct 29, 2012
Tartuffe
Oct 28

Tartuffe is one of the most well-known and most popular comedies by the great French playwright Molière, and is also ever-popular on German-speaking stages. Tartuffe,...

Tiny Kushner (DSE)
Oct 23 – Oct 28, 2012
Café Concert
Oct 13 – Oct 27, 2012

BESCHWINGTE MUSIK AM NACHMITTAG...

wohnen. unter glas
Oct 12 – Oct 20, 2012
I. Akademiekonzert
Oct 8 – Oct 9, 2012
Thomas Siffling's Nightmoves
Oct 8

THE PRIMITIVES...

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