Goethe News

Following three critically-acclaimed, sold-out seasons on stage in London's West End, Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love) brings Charles Dickens' beloved classic A Christmas Carol to the big screen in December 2018. On Tuesday 11 December the stage-to-film adaptation, reimagined especially for cinema, will be released in 444 cinemas across the UK and Ireland by leading event cinema distributors CinemaLive.

Upstart Theatre today announce full programme for the third annual DARE Festival at Shoreditch Town Hall.

The Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) revealed the programming of its 16th edition, which will take place from the 20th to the 28th of October 2018.

The Goethe-Institut Toronto proudly presents the exclusive Canadian premiere of the entire first season of BAD BANKS starring Paula Beer (Transit; Frantz; Never Look Away). The German-Luxemburgish co-production set at the heart of Europe's financial capitals premiered at the 68th Berlinale 2018 and went on to win the Audience Award at the Kino Festival New York. Beer, who was a jury member for the 1st Cannes International Series Festival, won Best Actress at the Bavarian Television Awards for her role as Jana.

The traditional Christmas staple of Charles Dickens' much loved A Christmas Carol, returns this festive season to the West End stage starring Simon Callow, running at the Arts Theatre for a strictly limited season from 8 December to 12 January.

Para conmemorar el 40 aniversario del Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez (FIMNME), el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), por medio de la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera, ha organizado una variada programación en la que la música contemporánea, la interdisciplina y las nuevas tecnologías serán los ingredientes principales de este importante encuentro que se realizará del 21 de septiembre al 14 de octubre en diversas sedes.

El Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez (FIMNME) llega a su cuadragésima edición, consolidado como el escaparate más importante de la música de reciente creación en México, el cual se realizará del 21 de septiembre al 14 de octubre en diferentes sedes.

The Seeing Place Theater, known for intense & intimate ensemble work, kicks off its 9th Season with an adaptation of one of the world's best known fables. A modern take on the classic story, THE HYSTERIA OF DR FAUSTUS explores the solemn pact made between the devil and a man who has nothing left to lose. Adapted by Brandon Walker, this brand new play combines Marlowe and Goethe's enduring fables into a dark and magical modern parable, staged in an intimate setting in the East Village. The season is being presented under the theme, IN EXTREMIS, which in Latin means 'in the farthest reaches' or 'at the point of death.'

BroadwayWorld has a first look at OTELLO, on stage at The Met December 14th through January 10th 2019. Check out the first look below!

“A través de sus invaluables e innumerables obras, Alfonso Reyes abre las puertas a la imaginación y al conocimiento”, aseguró Alberto Enríquez Perea durante la presentación de su libro, el cual versa sobre el reconocido ensayista, poeta, narrador y diplomático mexicano.

After opening its first permanent home in November 2017 and presenting an inaugural season that included a "tantalizing production" of Pay No Attention to the Girl, a New York Times critic's pick, Target Margin Theater (Founding Artistic Director David Herskovits, Associate Artistic Director Moe Yousuf) is pleased to announce its second season at The Doxsee. The 2018-2019 season continues Target Margin's multi-year focus on The One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Silk Road, MENA (Middle Eastern / North African), and South Asian stories, and includes a new presenting series.

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno Federal, a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Teatro del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y la Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, por conducto de la Coordinación del Sistema de Teatros de la Ciudad de México publicaron los resultados de la convocatoria que conformará los proyectos que participarán en la 39 Muestra Nacional de Teatro (39MNT), que se realizará del 1 al 10 de noviembre de 2018 en la Ciudad de México.

Letters to Dance - The West Coast premiere of a free, worldwide interactive project via which participants share their love and memories of dance in their everyday lives-in the clubs, the streets, at home, in the shower-through personal letters addressed to dance. In workshops with renowned German choreographers deufert&plischke, children, adults and students, ages 10 to 95, can come together to combine their favorite personal movements into an original performance for an audience of friends, family and the arts community.

Back by popular demand! Flying Bach (https://flyingsteps.com/en/), starring Germany's four-time world champion Flying Steps breakdance troupe, returns to the U.S. for a 10-city tour including stops in Denver, Washington DC and Chicago. Flying Bach, celebrating their 25th anniversary, interprets the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier", widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music. The result is an entertaining and electrifying production for people of all ages and demographics. Since its debut in 2014, the world's first classical music and breakdancing crossover show has sold more than a half million tickets and performed in 35 countries. Tickets go on sale August 10th.

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, announces adventurous international and LA performances featured in the ambitious new Fall 2018 season at REDCAT, including stunning stagecraft and object theater from Rotterdam, the world premiere of a new dance and video work by LA company David Rousseve/Reality, a slyly funny and poignant collaboration by German/British collective Gob Squad with six LA performers, a hilarious political musical-theater project by art collective My Barbarian, and the return of Christiane Jatahy with a Brazilian take on Chekhov's Three Sisters, which uses genius film techniques.

HISTORY MATTERS/BACK TO THE FUTURE presents an evening of scenes from women's plays of the past, performed by renowned actors April Matthis (Lear; The Sound and the Fury; April Seventh, 1928), Maryann Plunkett (Blue Valentine, The Apple Family Plays) and Jay O. Sanders (Blindspot, The Apple Family Plays) directed by Joan Vail Thorne, founder of History Matters/Back to the Future.

HISTORY MATTERS/BACK TO THE FUTURE presents an evening of scenes from women's plays of the past, performed by renowned actors April Matthis (Lear; The Sound and the Fury; April Seventh, 1928), Maryann Plunkett (Blue Valentine, The Apple Family Plays) and Jay O. Sanders (Blindspot, The Apple Family Plays) directed by Joan Vail Thorne, founder of History Matters/Back to the Future.

Riverside Theatres will present internationally celebrated pianist, Roger Woodward AC OBE, for an afternoon recital of Chopin and Debussy on Sunday 12th August.

Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 returns for another two week city take-over offering 16 days of brand new shows from dreamers and doers, wordsmiths and radicals, crafters and grafters, pirates and bad bitches, this September: