Culture
More Current Than Ever, “Nina Simone – Four Women” Brings Down the House at Theate...
A stellar cast and memorable songs transports the Civil Rights movement to the #BlackLivesMatter era
Culture
Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt Is a Portrait of Vienna’s Jewish Life
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.
Culture
Passing the Baton
The Vienna Theatre Project meditates on MLK’s last night on earth in Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop.”
Music
Froth and Finesse
The longest-running piece of musical theater of all time, Die Fledermaus captures an era, and (perhaps) the way Austrians like to see themselves.
Culture
Opening the Castle Gates
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...
Culture
The Floating World of Impulstanz
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.
Culture
Popular Movement
Ever since its inception, Impulstanz has grown in reach and output while welcoming all ages, all levels, all bodies.
The expansive world of contem...
Culture
All Salzburg’s a Stage
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...
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Culture
A Hello to Arms | Rojava at the Volkstheater
Rojava offers lessons on love, life and death from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Rojava, the self-described autonomous admi...
Culture
Double Indemnity
Featuring comedy, mystery and mistaken identity, Corpse! at Vienna’s English Theatre draws on tried and tested tricks for an entertaining show
The ...
Culture
Vienna’s New Wave of Political Theater
The return of the Thursday demonstrations to Vienna’s streets last October heralded a reawakening of Austrian protest culture. Between climate change ...
Culture
Arrested Development at Theater Drachengasse
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 ...
Culture
A Game of Thrones
The fish rots from the head down in the Volkstheater’s compelling Don Karlos.
With enlightenment-era ideals under fire, it seems ...
Culture
Vienna’s Stages | The Magic behind the Curtains
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...
Culture
Culture Stage | November
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,...
City Life
Jokes Aside | Vienna’s International Comedy Scene
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...
Culture
The Abyss Stares Back
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...
Culture
Virtual Nightmares at the Wiener Prater
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...
Culture
Spirited Away | “Ghosts from the Past and Present” at Impulstanz
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...
Stage
A Bleak Family Portrait at the Burgtheater | Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey i...
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...
Stage
Anarchy & Absurdity | English Mondays at the Schauspielhaus
English Mondays at the Schauspielhaus are a mad scientist’s laboratory of experimental theater.
An effective antidote to theatrical ennui, the anarc...
Stage
The Moon has Fallen from the Sky | Friendship, Power and Loyalty in Guards at the Taj
The Vienna Theatre Project production explores the limits of friendship in a witty and intimate performance.
When low-rank Imperial Guard Humayun ca...
Stage
Fear and Loathing at the Wiener Festwochen
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...
Stage
Much Ado About Sex, Drugs and Glam Rock Pirates
The Volkstheater descends into rockstar territory in Much Ado About Nothing.
While the works of William Shakespeare are often considered timeless, ...
Stage
Off-Broadway Hit “Guards at the Taj” Arrives in Vienna
The Vienna Theatre Project produces Rajiv Joseph’s off-Broadway hit.
Once again proving their knack for bringing contemporary English-language thea...
Stage
On Improv and Music | An Interview with Actor Dennis Kozeluh
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...
Stage
A new Play at the Volkstheater is Taking on the Current Political Situation in Gutmenschen
Austria’s current political situation is scathingly portrayed in Gutmenschen.
Tragedy need not be spectacular; sometimes all it takes to tear a...
Stage
The Burgtheater has English Surtitles! Check out Oresteia this Feb 8th and 11th
The Burgtheater surtitles Aeschylus’ trilogy in English.
With matricide, murder, revenge, adultery and deceit, Aeschylus’ trilogy the Oresteia co...
Stage
God is Dead and Ideologies are Non-Existent in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Ten Commandments
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...
Stage
Check out Yasmina Reza’s Play Art at the Vienna’s English Theatre Before it Closes on Fe...
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...
Stage
Wait Until Dark | Vienna’s English Theatre Revives the 1960s Thriller
Home invasions and darkness are two of our most primal fears – and excellent ingredients for a great thriller, as Frederick Knott succinctly p...
Stage
Margaret Cho is Coming to Vienna Again with a New Tour After Personal Turmoil
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...
Stage
Vienna’s Open House Theatre Performs the Experimental White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Nassim Soleimanpour has traveled the world without leaving his native Iran. Vienna’s Spektakel theater reserved a first row seat for the playw...
How To
How to Learn to Dance in Vienna
This year, the dance floor can be yours. With these tips, you’ll have all the moves to wow the ball season crowd.
Stage
15 Minutes with Kathy Griffin the no-fly List Comedienne
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...
Stage
Kathy Griffin: America’s Most Wanted Comedian is Coming to Vienna!
The celebrated comic tells her side of the “decapitating Trump” affair
Known for snarky observational humor and a focus on cele...
Stage
The Illusionist Philipp Oberlohr can Read Your Mind, and he Knows You’re Coming to his Next Sh...
Baffling and bewildering, illusionist Philipp Oberlohr knows everything about you
As I walked through the 16th district, I suddenly g...
Stage
Robert Schenkkan’s Building the Wall premiers at Theater Drachengasse
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...
Stage
A Midlife Crisis with a Chuckle: Shirley Valentine at Vienna’s English Theatre
Vienna’s English Theatre puts on a charming and wistful comedy, Shirley Valentine
There must be something about actors ta...
Stage
Catch Britain’s Stand-Up Wunderkind, Daniel Sloss at the Gartenbau Kino
The young Scottish funnyman shocks again on his 10th solo tour, Now
Charming, brutal and poignant, Scottish comedian Dani...
Stage
A Trump Impeachment Drama: Building the Wall
The Vienna Theatre Project takes a peek at a dystopian post-Trump world as envisioned by Robert Schenkkan
An African-American woman dressed in ...
Stage
John Waters Attacks our Decency Live at the Gartenbaukino This September
Cinematic legend John Waters continues his crusade against the tyranny of good taste
Since his seminal releases in the 1970s, John Waters has ama...
Stage
Join World-Class Street Artists on Karlsplatz at the Buskers Festival on the Second Weekend of Septe...
The Buskers Festival enlivens Karlsplatz with world-class performers
Since time immemorial, humanity has been fascinated with unusual feats of derrin...
Culture
Attending the Sommernachtsgala at Schloss Grafenegg
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...
Stage
A Universe of Dance Emerges at the ImPulsTanz Festival 2017
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...
Stage
Shakespeare’s Beloved Twelfth Night will be Showing at the Stadtpalais Liechtenstein
The Bard’s illustrious comedy of errors makes landfall in Vienna.
With lust, jealousy, deception, inebriation and greed all tied up in a convolut...
Stage
Nathan the Wise – Playing at the Volkstheater – Puts Compassion First
Nikolaus Habjan shines a light on religious fundamentalism in Nathan der Weise.
With refugees reaching Europe in record numbers, it often seems t...
Stage
How the Wiener Festwochen are Breaking all the Rules in 2017
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...
Stage
Jenny Simanowitz Turns Tears to Laughter in “Who’s Afraid of the Jewish Mother?”
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...
Stage
An Eccentric Irish Take on Romance Takes the Stage in “Outside Mullingar”
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...
Stage
Shen Yun’s Traditional Chinese Artistry Marked by Vivid Color and Breathtaking Choreography
Shen Yun: choreography, artistry, dance and color share the stage in this touring Chinese production
Highly acrobatic, Shen Yun performs classic ...
Stage
Laugh all you Want, OHT is Back with The Importance of Being Earnest
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...
Stage
Franz Grillparzer’s Medea
The Volkstheater tackles the original woman scorned in Franz Grillparzer’s Medea
How do you create empathy for a mother who murders her children?...
Stage
Imagetanz Festival
Social criticism meets dance at Imagetanz, the annual experimental dance festival
Exploring the symbolism and imagery of dance, the annual Imaget...
Stage
Lifting the Veil
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...
Stage
Twelve Nights to Remember
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...
Stage
Grillparzer’s Medea
Grillparzer’s take on the classic Greek tragedy gets a modern revamp
Austria’s famous playwright Franz Grillparzer’s third and final installation...
Stage
Open House Theatre: A Christmas Carol
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...
Stage
A War of Words – Molière’s Misanthrope
The archetypal angry middle-aged male splutters to life in Molière’s Der Menschenfeind (The Misanthrope)
Our current love affair with the instant...
Stage
Twelfth Turbulent Nights
This comedy comes from Illyria to commemorate the Bard’s death
Featuring a woman surviving a shipwreck and disguising herself as her twin brother...
Stage
Glitter, Glam and The Great Gatsby
Dwight Rhoden revisits F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age shenanigans on stage
Mimicking the extravagant Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby Ballet is...
Stage
Beguiled by the Bird-Catcher
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...
Stage
Social Satire Der Menschenfeind at the Volkstheater
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...
Stage
Nazi Superhumans Are Superior to All of You
Time-traveling master racists demonstrate The Horror of the Ordinary in this anarchic theater project.
Keeping it surreal since 1997, the performanc...
Stage
Spontaneous Combustions
At »MOMENT!« Fifth International Improv Festival, comedy and drama come at the speed of thought
Promising to “put Vienna back on the international ...
City Life
How to Take the Stage in Vienna
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...
Culture
On Stage: Impulstanz – Kaleidoscopes of Movement
Europe’s largest contemporary dance festival soars above all preconceptions
Dancers dream of space, limitless space to move. Of rooms with no...
Culture
On Stage: Family Matters – Performance
The .EVOLve Theater company delves into the love that binds
Ms. Barbara Wolfram glides into Café Goldegg, a stone’s throw from Belvedere Palace....
June 2016
On Stage: Ivanov
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 ...
May 2016
On Stage: Wiener Festwochen – Welcoming a World of Drama
The Wiener Festwochen bring the bleeding edge in theater
by Michael Bernstein & Dardis McNamee
Vienna is a city of theaters – th...
April 2016
On Stage: English Mondays at the Schauspielhaus
Two Pints of Theatre & a Packet of Crisps:
English Mondays promise a provocative brew of cutting edge theatre
English is made for the stage....
April 2016
On Stage: The English Lovers – Improv
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...
April 2016
On Stage: Hello/Goodbye
This romantic comedy of beginnings and endings challenges believability
Debuting on the continent after selling out its initial run at the Hampst...
March 2016
On Stage: Jimmy Carr
One of Britain’s most acclaimed stand-up comedians brings Funny Business to Vienna
After their runaway success in bringing live, English-language...
March 2016
On Stage: The Misunderstanding
A searing and original production of Camus’ absurdist drama, tackling notions of alienation and isolation
Theater-goers, rejoice! One of Vienna’s...
February 2016
On Stage: The Invisible Hand
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 ...
February 2016
On Stage: Groupie
Middle-age melancholia takes center stage as Vienna’s English Theatre puts on Arnold Wesker’s ultimately optimistic play about life after 50.
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December/January 2015/2016
On Stage: The Rain in Vain
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...
November 2015
On Stage: Margaret Cho Does Vienna
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...
Stage
Scaling the Depths : Annapurna
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...
Stage
L’Incoronazione di Poppea
The Theater an der Wien concludes its Monteverdi trilogy with this bloody tale of desire
Opera is an exotic and irrational entertainment,” observed S...
Stage
Marry Me a Little
The Vienna Theatre Project takes on Stephen Sondheim
A bittersweet take on urban isolation, this musical revue by the Vienna Theatre Project is ...