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LATERNA FEST Opens in Prague Next Month
by Stephi Wild - April 11, 2024
The first festival edition was held at the New Stage of the National Theatre two years ago on instigation of Radim Vizváry, the artistic director of Laterna magika. The second Laterna fest edition brings to Prague progressive and inspiring artists from Japan, Australia, Sweden, Canada, Israel and th...
The National Theatre in Prague Hosts DANCE ON, An Open On-Stage Rehearsal of THE NUTCRACKER
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2023
DANCE ON is a new educational project that will take place at the New Stage, encompassing open classes, individual coaching and a choreography laboratory, within which the participants witness the gestation of new works. ...
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS Comes to the National Theatre in Prague This Week
by Stephi Wild - November 08, 2023
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders comes to the National Theatre in Prague. There will be two premiere performances on 9 and 10 November 2023 at the New Stage....
BABYLATERNA Comes to the National Theatre in Prague
by Stephi Wild - May 15, 2023
Toddlers aged 6 months to 3 years and their adult companions will enter the theatre, which will turn into babies’ magic world – tempting, charming and inviting to make new discoveries....
BABYLATERNA is Now Playing at the Estates Theatre in Prague
by Stephi Wild - December 06, 2022
Toddlers aged 6 months to 3 years and their adult companions will enter the theatre, which will turn into babies’ magic world – tempting, charming and inviting to make new discoveries. ...
THE FAREWELL PARTY is Now Playing at the National Theatre of Prague
by Stephi Wild - June 13, 2022
Traditions. How to live, keep and pass them on, or rather abandon them in the name of the new world. This is the main theme of the new play by a young playwright Eliška Říhová, which will be performed in the world premiere at the New Stage. The theme presents multiple layers, from the viewpoint of t...
COSMOS Comes to National Theatre of Prague Tonight
by Stephi Wild - April 13, 2022
Its protagonist leaves his home in Warsaw so as to seek peace in the mountain resort of Zakopane. He abandons the familiar world anchored in the cosmos through the well-established rules and notions of reality, and discover a new one, abounding it confusing weirdness. ...
BABYLATERNA Begins at the National Theatre of Prague Today
by Stephi Wild - March 18, 2022
Toddlers aged 6 months to 3 years and their adult companions will get up on the stage, which will turn into a large playground. ...
THE FATHER WATCHES OVER THE DAUGHTER is Now Playing at The New Stage
by Stephi Wild - March 08, 2022
The Father Watches Over the Daughter by Ondřej Novotný comes to The New Stage at the National Theatre of Prague this week....
THE FATHER WATCHES OVER THE DAUGHTER Comes to The New Stage This Week
by Stephi Wild - February 14, 2022
The Father Watches Over the Daughter by Ondřej Novotný comes to The New Stage at the National Theatre of Prague this week....
Past Shows
Land of Body
4/1 - 3/7/2024
The Bartered Bride
4/19 - 9/21/2023
The Audience
4/9 - 9/16/2023
Land of Body
4/1 - 3/7/2023
At Sea, Staring Up
12/13 - 4/5/2018
The young Australian dramatist Finegan Kruckemeyer possesses a narrative voice endowed with inexhaustible imagination. His characters both tell and live their stories, with their fates ...
At Sea, Staring Up
9/24 - 10/30/2017
The young Australian dramatist Finegan Kruckemeyer possesses a narrative voice endowed with inexhaustible imagination. His characters both tell and live their stories, with their fates ...
Love and Information
9/5 - 10/17/2017
No matter where we find ourselves, love and information accompany us every day, at every moment. How simple, how exceptional, how everyday, how complicated… A ...
Solo for the Two of Us
6/15 - 6/20/2017
On 20 May 2007, the National Theatre hosted the premiere of my original dance-theatre piece Brel – Vysotsky – Kryl / Solo for Three. The ...
The Mouse Paradise Experiment
9/8 - 6/19/2017
The laboratory mouse may be a lovely pet. But what about its serving for scientific experiments? Experiments seeking eternal youth, experiments with the brain, genetic ...
Frailty, Thy Name is Woman
5/11 - 6/6/2017
Woman as object, woman as subject, woman as woman. The production is the fruit of the collaboration between the National Theatre Drama company and the ...
The Little Prince
9/16 - 5/6/2017
Who has not read The Little Prince, one of the best-known stories of global modern literature? The author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella, first ...
Touch the Universe and Carry On
11/3 - 5/2/2017
Bohumil Plánovský, the head of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of ...
For the first time ever, the Czech National Ballet’s repertoire includes works of the legendary Israeli creator Ohad Naharin, who for several decades has been ...
At Sea, Staring Up
3/9 - 4/19/2017
The young Australian dramatist Finegan Kruckemeyer possesses a narrative voice endowed with inexhaustible imagination. His characters both tell and live their stories, with their fates ...
No Man
3/31 - 4/3/2017
Another opera treating a “non-operatic” subject to be staged in the 2016/17 season is a new piece written by the young Czech composer Ji?í Kade?ábek ...
Cube
9/1 - 3/23/2017
Cube is a new show within the successful LaternaLAB, a project that has primarily found inspiration in original Laterna magika productions, blending together film images ...
Orango & Anti-Formalist Rayok
12/19 - 2/2/2017
Dmitry Shostakovich’s two extravagant pieces give one of the possible answers to the question of what form opera should take in the wake of the ...
Love and Information
9/11 - 1/12/2017
No matter where we find ourselves, love and information accompany us every day, at every moment. How simple, how exceptional, how everyday, how complicated… A ...
Human Locomotion
9/15 - 1/7/2017
The multimedia project of Laterna magika deals with life and works of famous British photographer and inventor Eadweard Muybridge, whose work had crucial impact on ...
Three Tales
12/3 - 12/18/2016
The New Stage is the venue at which the National Theatre Opera has traditionally presented projects pertaining to 20th- and 21st-century music. Of this ilk ...
Vertigo
8/27 - 12/14/2016
A mixed bill representing the essence of works by distinguished and singular contemporary European dance theatre creators: Moldova’s Radu Poklitaru, Italy’s Mauro Bigonzetti and Sweden’s ...
As Far as I See
10/30 - 12/12/2016
When Agátka was born, she could not see. Hence, in order to get to know the world around her, she had to touch it. In ...
Extraordinary Voyages of Jules Verne
9/2 - 12/10/2016
Project created for Laterna magika by the dramatist and director David Drábek is inspired by Jules Verne’s famous novels, The Mysterious Island in particular. It ...
Earthquakes in London
9/13 - 12/2/2016
The remarkable play by the award-winning contemporary British dramatist Mike Bartlett, premiered in 2010 in London, is inspired by Anton Chekhov. Focused too on the ...
Protection
9/14 - 12/1/2016
One night, six persons, three stories. A homeless man loves a diseased street musician yet is afraid to approach her. Two gay men in a ...
Red Mary
11/6 - 11/28/2016
The young contemporary Czech composer and conductor Jan Ku?era is an ardent fan of the cult radio series Rodinka aneb Byli jsme a budem (The ...
C*CKtail 012 – The Best of
9/22 - 10/29/2016
In Cocktail 012 - The Best of we would like to introduce our audience selection from our past and present repertory. The evening is a ...
C*CKtail 012 – The Best of
9/22 - 10/29/2016
In Cocktail 012 - The Best of we would like to introduce our audience selection from our past and present repertory. The evening is a ...
Jules Verne
2/19 - 6/27/2015
OHAD NAHARIN: decadance
6/4 - 6/24/2015
For the first time ever, the Czech National Ballet’s repertoire includes works of the legendary Israeli creator Ohad Naharin, who for several decades has been ...
Legends of Magic Prague
8/21 - 6/20/2015
The latest Laterna Magika project is based on the performances of Ji?i Srnec’s Black Theatre staged in the 1990s in several versions (Ahasver, Timewalker, Prague ...
As Far as I See
10/12 - 6/15/2015
When Agátka was born, she could not see. Hence, in order to get to know the world around her, she had to touch it. In ...
Wonderful Circus
7/1 - 6/13/2015
Wonderful Circus had its premiere way back in 1977, and since that time has been the most-performed title of Laterna Magika. In March 2012 we ...
C*CKtail 012 – The Best of
9/25 - 6/6/2015
In Cocktail 012 - The Best of we would like to introduce our audience selection from our past and present repertory. The evening is a ...
Earthquakes in London
4/2 - 6/2/2015
Human Locomotion
9/3 - 5/31/2015
The latest multimedia project of Laterna magika deals with life and works of famous British photographer and inventor Eadweard Muybridge, whose work had crucial impact ...
Red Mary
4/29
The young contemporary Czech composer and conductor Jan Ku?era is an ardent fan of the cult radio series Rodinka aneb Byli jsme a budem (The ...
Hang-out
9/15 - 4/27/2015
Johanes Urzidil (1896-1970) studied in Prague, could speak Czech and was a friend of Franz Kafka and Franz Werfel. From 1922 to 1933, he worked ...
The Labor of Life
3/15 - 4/16/2015
The playwright and stage director Hanoch Levin (1943-1999) was one of the leading figures of Israeli theatre and public life in general. In the 1960s ...
Anticodes
10/19 - 3/29/2015
The latest multimedia play the main role in a visual and dance production based on Václav Havel’s collection of experimental poetry of the same name. ...
The Deafening Smell of White
9/21 - 2/2/2015
The austere whitewashed walls of a room at the St. Paul asylum for the insane. The only company for Vincent van Gogh is the narcissistic, ...
After the Velvet
11/17 - 1/18/2015
Blackbird
9/29 - 12/9/2014
A dramatic encounter between a man and woman who were once bound by a great love which the man paid for by several years in ...
From Stardust
9/14 - 11/10/2014
Taking stock of one’s life. And as usual, on balance it’s grim. Life in dust. Infinite conversations with parents, sisters, oneself. What is the meaning ...
Waiting for Godot
9/16 - 10/22/2014
The two-Act play about a never-ending, dreary waiting for someone who might just possibly bring a sense of meaning to human life has been interpreted ...
Toufar
9/2 - 10/9/2014
History is replete with martyrs whose death was subsequently made use of for various purposes. One of the most blatant victims of modern Czech history ...
Endangered Species
9/10 - 10/1/2014
The latest play by Petr Zelenka, one of the most successful Czech dramatists. A tale of a battle with a multinational pharmaceutical corporation, of recovery ...
Legends of Magic Prague
9/6 - 6/28/2014
The latest Laterna Magika project is based on the performances of Ji?i Srnec’s Black Theatre staged in the 1990s in several versions (Ahasver, Timewalker, Prague ...
As Far as I See
9/22 - 6/23/2014
When Agátka was born, she could not see. Hence, in order to get to know the world around her, she had to touch it. In ...
Graffiti
9/25 - 6/21/2014
In 2002 contemporary dance stepped onto the stage of Laterna Magika in the presentation titled Graffiti. The scenario and stage direction were entrusted to students ...
Wonderful Circus
9/12 - 6/14/2014
Wonderful Circus had its premiere way back in 1977, and since that time has been the most-performed title of Laterna Magika. In March 2012 we ...
The Last Story of Jules Verne
2/6 - 6/8/2014
The new project, prepared for Laterna magika by the director Alice Nellis, depicts the last days of Jules Verne. The writer, bed-ridden and slipping in ...
The Last Peal
3/13 - 6/2/2014
Johannes Urzidil (1896-1970) studied in Prague, could speak Czech and was a friend of Franz Kafka and Franz Werfel. From 1922 to 1933, he worked ...
Anticodes
9/30 - 4/9/2014
The latest multimedia play the main role in a visual and dance production based on Václav Havel’s collection of experimental poetry of the same name. ...
C*CKtail 012 – The Best of
11/15 - 3/1/2014
In Cocktail 012 - The Best of we would like to introduce our audience selection from our past and present repertory. The evening is a ...
Casanova
9/19 - 10/26/2013
The dramatic ballet Casanova was premiered by Laterna Magika in 1995 with stage direction by the acclaimed Juraj Jakubisko, known for example for his Tisicro?na ...
Endangered Species
9/16 - 10/22/2013
The latest play by Petr Zelenka, one of the most successful Czech dramatists. A tale of a battle with a multinational pharmaceutical corporation, of recovery ...
Moonshine
9/4 - 10/9/2013
A triptych with a single specific dramaturgical axis: the common “face”, “retro” pop-rock-folk music. This premiere performance will present works by Christopher Bruce, who was ...
Rhinoceros
9/18 - 10/7/2013
One of the seminal plays of the 20th century, blending the Theatre of the Absurd, existential drama, classical farce and burlesque, tells the story of ...
C*CKtail 012 – The Best of
1/25 - 7/13/2013
In Cocktail 012 - The Best of we would like to introduce our audience selection from our past and present repertory. The evening is a ...
Moonshine
2/5 - 6/13/2013
A triptych with a single specific dramaturgical axis: the common “face”, “retro” pop-rock-folk music. This premiere performance will present works by Christopher Bruce, who was ...
Waiting for Godot
6/12
The two-Act play about a never-ending, dreary waiting for someone who might just possibly bring a sense of meaning to human life has been interpreted ...
My Distant Homeland
2/16 - 6/10/2013
Dagmar Šimková spent fifteen years in a communist prison. She described her experience in a very strong and beautiful way in her book called We ...
Rhinoceros
2/10 - 5/20/2013
One of the seminal plays of the 20th century, blending the Theatre of the Absurd, existential drama, classical farce and burlesque, tells the story of ...
May
5/1
How well do we know K. H. Mácha's legendary poem May? It seems like all of us Czechs are able to recall its first lines. ...
The Nobel Prize winner writes provocatively and her relentless criticism even surpasses that of Ibsen. (Two of the plays Jelinek links up to are contained ...
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Much Ado About Nothing
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