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A stellar cast and memorable songs transports the Civil Rights movement to the #BlackLivesMatter era

Lush and ultimately shattering, Leopoldstadt is a loving portrait of Jewish life in early 20th century Vienna, and a heartfelt embrace of Stoppard’s own immigrant story.

The Vienna Theatre Project meditates on MLK’s last night on earth in Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop.”

The longest-running piece of musical theater of all time, Die Fledermaus captures an era, and (perhaps) the way Austrians like to see themselves.

With high culture such an integral part of the Austrian identity, there are few positions as coveted and prestigious as director of Vienna’s B...

With courses for all ages, bodies and skills, Europe’s largest contemporary dance festival can be very rewarding for novice dancers – if you’re willing to put in the work.

Ever since its inception, Impulstanz has grown in reach and output while welcoming all ages, all levels, all bodies.  The expansive world of contem...

Born out of the ashes of the Great War, the Salzburg Festspiele carries on Max Reinhardt's dream of a Europe united through culture. Where other...

Rojava offers lessons on love, life and death from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Rojava, the self-described autonomous admi...

Featuring comedy, mystery and mistaken identity, Corpse! at Vienna’s English Theatre draws on tried and tested tricks for an entertaining show The ...

The return of the Thursday demonstrations to Vienna’s streets last October heralded a reawakening of Austrian protest culture. Between climate change ...

Annie Baker’s play "The Flick" puts the mundane into the spotlight at Theater Drachengasse. Growing up is never easy, as anyone who has ever done so ...

The fish rots from the head down in the Volkstheater’s compelling Don Karlos. With enlightenment-era ideals under fire, it seems ...

Vienna’s biggest stages have plenty of secrets the audience never gets to see It’s remarkable how daunting, yet fascinating, a few old, chipped w...

Rebirth of a Diva After success in London, The Bodyguard settles into its new home at the Ronacher Singers die, but their songs live on. At least,...

Austria’s comedy scene gets some international flair as English language stand-up grows in Vienna Downstairs, the room is cozy but packed, the bare b...

On Halloween, Jesse Inman’s Smallest Theatre in the World #3 defies the rules of sanity and theater The dark courtyard of the Sigmund Freud Museum is...

The Clown updates the classic ghost train inside the world’s oldest theme park. There is something deeply unsettling about a clown that’s not put...

The Impulstanz festival sweeps you off your feet with the best of choreography’s past, present and future When you add a pinch of ballet, a drop of...

Family relations are tested to the breaking point in the Burgtheater’s rendition of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day's Journey into Night A house divide...

English Mondays at the Schauspielhaus are a mad scientist’s laboratory of experimental theater. An effective antidote to theatrical ennui, the anarc...

The Vienna Theatre Project production explores the limits of friendship in a witty and intimate performance. When low-rank Imperial Guard Humayun ca...

This year’s Wiener Festwochen deliver soothing magic for a world on the edge of a nervous breakdown. What compels some of us to seek out provocative...

The Volkstheater descends into rockstar territory in Much Ado About Nothing. While the works of William Shakespeare are often considered timeless, ...

The Vienna Theatre Project produces Rajiv Joseph’s off-Broadway hit. Once again proving their knack for bringing contemporary English-language thea...

Veteran actor Dennis Kozeluh on improvisation and musical entertainment. “I didn’t think I’d spend my life on stage, but I have!”, Dennis Kozel...

Austria’s current political situation is scathingly portrayed in Gutmenschen. Tragedy need not be spectacular; sometimes all it takes to tear a...

The Burgtheater surtitles Aeschylus’ trilogy in English. With matricide, murder, revenge, adultery and deceit, Aeschylus’ trilogy the Oresteia co...

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s noted TV drama is adapted to the stage. Exploring morality in a world where God is dead and ideologies are non-existent or...

In Yasmina Reza’s Art, three friends are at odds as their dynamic shifts. What binds people together? Long-term friendships are often taken for gran...

Home invasions and darkness are two of our most primal fears – and excellent ingredients for a great thriller, as Frederick Knott succinctly p...

Blunt and fearless, Margaret Cho is a real groundbreaker in her field of comedy, getting a rise from audiences since exploding on stage in the...

Nassim Soleimanpour has traveled the world without leaving his native Iran. Vienna’s Spektakel theater reserved a first row seat for the playw...

This year, the dance floor can be yours. With these tips, you’ll have all the moves to wow the ball season crowd.

Did you miss Kathy Griffin while she was in Vienna? Kathy Griffin talked to Metropole about what happened after she released her Trump photo, her tour...

The celebrated comic tells her side of the “decapitating Trump” affair Known for snarky observational humor and a focus on cele...

Baffling and bewildering, illusionist Philipp Oberlohr knows everything about you As I walked through the 16th district, I suddenly g...

The Vienna Theatre Project brings Robert Shenkkan’s Building The Wall to life in an atmospheric premiere The air was hot and thick during the Eur...

Vienna’s English Theatre puts on a charming and wistful comedy, Shirley Valentine There must be something about actors ta...

The young Scottish funnyman shocks again on his 10th solo tour, Now Charming, brutal and poignant, Scottish comedian Dani...

The Vienna Theatre Project takes a peek at a dystopian post-Trump world as envisioned by Robert Schenkkan An African-American woman dressed in ...

Cinematic legend John Waters continues his crusade against the tyranny of good taste Since his seminal releases in the 1970s, John Waters has ama...

The Buskers Festival enlivens Karlsplatz with world-class performers Since time immemorial, humanity has been fascinated with unusual feats of derrin...

Summer concerts in the park don’t get any better than this. One of the joys of working in Vienna is leaving the office early on a Friday afternoo...

At ImPulsTanz, the floor can be yours. At Vienna's festival for contemporary dance, watch productions from all over the world or take a chance to perf...

The Bard’s illustrious comedy of errors makes landfall in Vienna. With lust, jealousy, deception, inebriation and greed all tied up in a convolut...

Nikolaus Habjan shines a light on religious fundamentalism in Nathan der Weise. With refugees reaching Europe in record numbers, it often seems t...

The Wiener Festwochen push the envelope with a new co-director setting the tone Being voted “most-livable” city can be a double-edged sword. Ever...

Be prepared to laugh along at her one-woman show. Remaining upbeat in the face of hardship, cruelty and prejudice is a tough act; Jenny Simanowit...

Love's Labor's Not Lost: Outside Mullingar is somewhat mired in its continental premiere.  A poetic riff on loneliness, self-abnegation and love, Joh...

Shen Yun: choreography, artistry, dance and color share the stage in this touring Chinese production Highly acrobatic, Shen Yun performs classic ...

Back by popular demand, Open House Theatre goes Wilde with The Importance of Being Earnest Never ones to wash their clean linen in public, the Open H...

The Volkstheater tackles the original woman scorned in Franz Grillparzer’s Medea How do you create empathy for a mother who murders her children?...

Social criticism meets dance at Imagetanz, the annual experimental dance festival Exploring the symbolism and imagery of dance, the annual Imaget...

The Vienna Theatre Project puts on Ayad Akhtar’s The Who and the What, where logos, mythos and gender intersect Four actors and a director huddle...

Vienna’s English Theatre presents Anthony Shaffer’s exemplary thriller, filled with deceit and deception Ever popular on English-language stages sin...

Vienna’s English Theatre presents Twelfth Nights in an uneven yet endearing version As the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death draws to a clos...

Grillparzer’s take on the classic Greek tragedy gets a modern revamp Austria’s famous playwright Franz Grillparzer’s third and final installation...

The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future descend upon Vienna with the Open House Theatre Now in its 32nd consecutive year since it was perfo...

The archetypal angry middle-aged male splutters to life in Molière’s Der Menschenfeind (The Misanthrope) Our current love affair with the instant...

This comedy comes from Illyria to commemorate the Bard’s death Featuring a woman surviving a shipwreck and disguising herself as her twin brother...

Dwight Rhoden revisits F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age shenanigans on stage Mimicking the extravagant Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby Ballet is...

The Raimund Theater sets the stage for Emanuel Schikaneder, legendary writer of The Magic Flute. Every year, the day after the famed Opera Ball swee...

A modern take on Molière’s baroque human comedy. Widely regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy in Western literature, Molière’s soci...

Time-traveling master racists demonstrate The Horror of the Ordinary in this anarchic theater project. Keeping it surreal since 1997, the performanc...

The internationally acclaimed hit folk musical comes to Vienna Widely regarded as one of the leading exponents of American folk music, Woody Guthri...

At »MOMENT!« Fifth International Improv Festival, comedy and drama come at the speed of thought Promising to “put Vienna back on the international ...

These tips will help you to channel your inner Anna Netrebko, Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Waltz or Fred Astaire. Taking in a Zauberflöte at the Staat...

Europe’s largest contemporary dance festival soars above all preconceptions Dancers dream of space, limitless space to move. Of rooms with no...

The .EVOLve Theater company delves into the love that binds Ms. Barbara Wolfram glides into Café ­Goldegg, a stone’s throw from Belvedere Palace....

Fin-de-siècle Slavic despair takes center stage at the Volkstheater If Anton Chekhov had been a painter, his palette would have been bleak, with ...

The Wiener Festwochen bring the bleeding edge in theater by Michael Bernstein & Dardis McNamee   Vienna is a city of theaters – th...

Two Pints of Theatre & a Packet of Crisps: English Mondays promise a provocative brew of cutting edge theatre English is made for the stage....

For this Vienna-based improvisation group, there is no such thing as mistakes Starting as a reading group in 1997 and moving progressively towards al...

This romantic comedy of beginnings and endings challenges believability Debuting on the continent after selling out its initial run at the Hampst...

One of Britain’s most acclaimed stand-up comedians brings Funny Business to Vienna After their runaway success in bringing live, English-language...

A searing and original production of Camus’ absurdist drama, tackling notions of alienation and isolation Theater-goers, rejoice! One of Vienna’s...

A darkly relevant play about a clash of disparate cultures with more in common than first meets the eye.   With Vienna in a mood of high ...

Middle-age melancholia takes center stage as Vienna’s English Theatre puts on Arnold Wesker’s ultimately optimistic play about life after 50. &nb...

Vienna’s English Theatre’s Pygmalion is enjoyable, but fails to capture the true Shavian spirit George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at Vienna’s Engli...

The Korean-American comedian is bringing her shameless stage style to town. "I have come to murder your ignorance,” Margaret Cho bursts into a la...

Dark and funny, this European premiere is set in a remote mobile home in the Rocky Mountains, where the poet and former alcoholic Ulysses lives a secl...

The Theater an der Wien concludes its Monteverdi trilogy with this bloody tale of desire Opera is an exotic and irrational entertainment,” observed S...

The Vienna Theatre Project takes on Stephen Sondheim A bittersweet take on urban isolation, this musical revue by the Vienna Theatre Project  is ...