English Theatre Berlin

03/05/2021

On July 1, come hell, high water or a fourth wave, we’ll premiere Islands, a performance being created in collaboration with Post Theater, whom we worked with in 2019 on Stuck in Orbit.

This time, Daniel Brunet and Max Schumacher have teamed up to offer this journey away from journeys featuring the performers Rafuska Marks (of ABA NAIA), Valerie Renay (who many of you remember from LeinzLieberman’s Schnitzler adaptation F**k Me I Love You) and Alexander Schröder, a frequent collaborator of Post Theater.

The production is being created for a hybrid physical and digital audience and can be offered completely digitally depending on the course of the pandemic. Additional performances on July 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10.

A little later in the summer, get ready for Cool Aid, a cover version of the greatest comedy ever, the one where two ladies kill old men because there´s nothing sadder in the world than lonely old men. You know the one. Well, they don´t kill old men in the new version; they poison people who lead a much much sadder life – unsuccesful artists. Written and directed by Günther Grosser. With Priscilla Bergey, Josephine Larsen, Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, a. o. The premiere will be on August 12 with additional performances through August 21.

We’re looking forward to sharing new work with you!

https://www.etberlin.de/home/coming-up/

On July 1, come hell, high water or a fourth wave, we’ll premiere Islands, a performance being created in collaboration with Post Theater, whom we worked with in 2019 on Stuck in Orbit.

This time, Daniel Brunet and Max Schumacher have teamed up to offer this journey away from journeys featuring the performers Rafuska Marks (of ABA NAIA), Valerie Renay (who many of you remember from LeinzLieberman’s Schnitzler adaptation F**k Me I Love You) and Alexander Schröder, a frequent collaborator of Post Theater.

The production is being created for a hybrid physical and digital audience and can be offered completely digitally depending on the course of the pandemic. Additional performances on July 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10.

A little later in the summer, get ready for Cool Aid, a cover version of the greatest comedy ever, the one where two ladies kill old men because there´s nothing sadder in the world than lonely old men. You know the one. Well, they don´t kill old men in the new version; they poison people who lead a much much sadder life – unsuccesful artists. Written and directed by Günther Grosser. With Priscilla Bergey, Josephine Larsen, Mary Kelly, Ben Maddox, a. o. The premiere will be on August 12 with additional performances through August 21.

We’re looking forward to sharing new work with you!

https://www.etberlin.de/home/coming-up/

15/04/2021

Mehr Berlin wagen

Back in January, Tagesspiegel covered #30yearsenglishtheatreberlin and some of our history as a theater. To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we're hoping to bring you new performances this summer! #staytuned

Das English Theatre bereichert seit 30 Jahren die Theaterlandschaft der Stadt: Zum Jubiläum gibt es neue Stücke und noch mehr Sprachenvielfalt.

25/03/2021

#Throwback to Dirty Granny Tales and a full house

4 days English Theater in Berlin was full. We enjoyed every moment

19/03/2021

The 5th edition of the ID Festival kicks off today under the theme "absurd" - online and for free! We were thrilled to be a part of the ID Festival back in 2018 with our co-production The Land of Milk(y) and Honey?: Israelis in Berlin.

13/03/2021

Gayle Tufts über ein Jahr Theater-Lockdown

Don't miss a special performance of Nassim Soleimanpour Productions's play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by our dear friend Gayle Tufts tonight at 8pm - Let There Be Theater!

Please note, this is a live stream performance via the platform Zoom. Our box office staff will provide with the necessary link via email. If you have any questions, please write to our box office at [email protected].

Tickets can be purchased here: https://etberlin.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/357803

Morgen vor einem Jahr mussten pandemiebedingt die Theater weltweit schließen. Und noch immer sind die meisten Bühnen von einem Regelbetrieb weit entfernt.

12/03/2021

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit | English Theatre Berlin

In 2013, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit was our second production after our re-imagining as an international performing arts center – and we are thrilled to be able to offer this incredible work once again as part of Aurora Nova’s Let There Be Theater!

Don't miss it this Saturday performed by Gayle Tufts.

‹Salomania‹ Next production PHIA›Previous production › White Rabbit, Red Rabbit No rehearsals. No director. No set. A different performer reads the script cold for the first time at each performance. Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen? Forb...

11/03/2021

radioeins

Tune in to radioeins on Friday at 11am for an inverview with Gayle Tufts about Let There Be Theater!

https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/mofr1013/

Life und Style, Pop und Politik, global und lokal – diese Show kommt so entspannt um die Ecke, dass jeder rufen möchte: Lass uns Wellenreiten gehen. Wir surfen gekonnt und wunderschön durch drei Stunden radioeins – mit interessanten Studiogästen, fantastischen Rubriken und jeder Menge Pi und ...

05/03/2021

Die Kultur, der Lockdown und die Kanzlerinnenrunde

"Am 13. März, dem Jahrestag der Schließung, wollen Theater in aller Welt ein Zeichen setzen. Von Athen bis Vancouver, von Auckland bis Panama spielen sie – online – unter dem Motto „Let There Be Theater“ ein Stück des in Berlin lebenden Iraners Nassim Soleimanpour." - Tagesspiegel

Bald wird wieder geöffnet und gespielt. Oder nimmt das Drama kein Ende? Das entscheidet die Politik – und die Inzidenz. Eine Übersicht.

05/03/2021

On Friday, March 13, 2020, theaters across the world had to close due to COVID-19. We remain far away from theaters returning to regular operations. On the occasion of this sad anniversary, the Berlin-based theatrical booking agency Aurora Nova is inviting artists and audiences to take part in a symbolic production, an act of protest and solidarity, an outcry and incantation: Let There Be Theater! From Canada to Chile, from Athens to Minsk to Tokyo, hundreds of theaters worldwide are taking part in the initiative and presenting the play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by the Berlin-based Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour Productions as a digital live stream event on March 13, 2021. White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is one of the most performed plays in the world. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and performed by a huge range of renowned actors. The Berlin premiere took place in 2013 at English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center.

For March 13, we have been able to bring in a star: Gayle Tufts, "Germany’s most famous US-American". The proceeds from this special evening of theater will be used to support theater artists who have been unable to work due to the pandemic.

Tickets can be purchased here:
https://etberlin.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/357803

On Friday, March 13, 2020, theaters across the world had to close due to COVID-19. We remain far away from theaters returning to regular operations. On the occasion of this sad anniversary, the Berlin-based theatrical booking agency Aurora Nova is inviting artists and audiences to take part in a symbolic production, an act of protest and solidarity, an outcry and incantation: Let There Be Theater! From Canada to Chile, from Athens to Minsk to Tokyo, hundreds of theaters worldwide are taking part in the initiative and presenting the play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by the Berlin-based Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour Productions as a digital live stream event on March 13, 2021. White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is one of the most performed plays in the world. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and performed by a huge range of renowned actors. The Berlin premiere took place in 2013 at English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center.

For March 13, we have been able to bring in a star: Gayle Tufts, "Germany’s most famous US-American". The proceeds from this special evening of theater will be used to support theater artists who have been unable to work due to the pandemic.

Tickets can be purchased here:
https://etberlin.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/357803

19/02/2021

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS: Bert and Nasi (London) / PALMYRA

Devised and Performed by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas - three performances between May 31 and June 2, 2018.

In 2018, we invited two international shows that had swept the awards at the previous year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Mouthpiece by Canadian female duo Quote Unquote Collective and Palmyra by Bert and Nasi from London. Palmyra was a show about the simmering potentials of conflicts to escalate, "broad enough to be received as a show about the breakdown of any relationship and how quickly emotions get out of control, positions harden and the crockery starts to be thrown" (The Guardian) - and crockery was indeed thrown by Bertrand and Nasi, so much, in fact, that our technical director, Torsten Litschko, began to worry. The reviewer from nachtkritik.de was thrilled and we made it into the list of the ten best shows on German stages for two consecutive months! We hope to invite Bert and Nasi back with their new show, One, after the pandemic.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #bertrandlesca #nasivoutsas #bertandnasi

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS: Bert and Nasi (London) / PALMYRA

Devised and Performed by Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas - three performances between May 31 and June 2, 2018.

In 2018, we invited two international shows that had swept the awards at the previous year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Mouthpiece by Canadian female duo Quote Unquote Collective and Palmyra by Bert and Nasi from London. Palmyra was a show about the simmering potentials of conflicts to escalate, "broad enough to be received as a show about the breakdown of any relationship and how quickly emotions get out of control, positions harden and the crockery starts to be thrown" (The Guardian) - and crockery was indeed thrown by Bertrand and Nasi, so much, in fact, that our technical director, Torsten Litschko, began to worry. The reviewer from nachtkritik.de was thrilled and we made it into the list of the ten best shows on German stages for two consecutive months! We hope to invite Bert and Nasi back with their new show, One, after the pandemic.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #bertrandlesca #nasivoutsas #bertandnasi

10/02/2021

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS: The Land of Milk(y) and Honey?: Israelis in Berlin

This 2018 performance, created in co-production with the ID Festival – (Israeli-German Art and Culture), was one of our most popular and successful ever. It sold out every single one of its 15 performances over the course of three separate runs between September 2018 and September 2019 and brought the performers and audience together by seating them all around one giant table.

Nearly 75 years after the end of the Second World War, Berlin’s Israeli community is estimated to number in the tens of thousands. Is Berlin truly this promised land of milk and honey?

Three Israeli performers explored this issue using verbatim text from 60 interviews with the widest possible spectrum of partners; Israelis with an active religious background, Israeli Arabs, highly politicized Israelis as well as Israelis who have absolutely no interest in politics.

Directed and Devised by Daniel Brunet | Performed and Developed by Mica Dvir, Renen Itzhaki and Shlomi Moto Wagner | Dramaturgy by Shlomo Lieberman | Scenography by Keren Korman | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Assistant Direction by Naomi Boyce | Assistant Scenography by Noemi Baumblatt | Regiehospitantin: Lola Pilnik.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #renenitzhaki #shlomimotowagner

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS: The Land of Milk(y) and Honey?: Israelis in Berlin

This 2018 performance, created in co-production with the ID Festival – (Israeli-German Art and Culture), was one of our most popular and successful ever. It sold out every single one of its 15 performances over the course of three separate runs between September 2018 and September 2019 and brought the performers and audience together by seating them all around one giant table.

Nearly 75 years after the end of the Second World War, Berlin’s Israeli community is estimated to number in the tens of thousands. Is Berlin truly this promised land of milk and honey?

Three Israeli performers explored this issue using verbatim text from 60 interviews with the widest possible spectrum of partners; Israelis with an active religious background, Israeli Arabs, highly politicized Israelis as well as Israelis who have absolutely no interest in politics.

Directed and Devised by Daniel Brunet | Performed and Developed by Mica Dvir, Renen Itzhaki and Shlomi Moto Wagner | Dramaturgy by Shlomo Lieberman | Scenography by Keren Korman | Lighting Design by Christian Maith | Assistant Direction by Naomi Boyce | Assistant Scenography by Noemi Baumblatt | Regiehospitantin: Lola Pilnik.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #renenitzhaki #shlomimotowagner

09/02/2021

Mehr Berlin wagen

In case you missed it: we turned 30!

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin

Das English Theatre bereichert seit 30 Jahren die Theaterlandschaft der Stadt: Zum Jubiläum gibt es neue Stücke und noch mehr Sprachenvielfalt.

05/02/2021

No plans for the weekend? The White Plague by Ferodo Bridges is available to stream online.

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1YXl6oX8oRQgGj8vTfBpFM2F-suVlYzH6PKQ-MJjGRf47fc6mps9NI9dk&v=Coo7SRvDph8&feature=youtu.be

02/02/2021

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS: The Other / Promised Land by LeinzLieberman

Created and Performed by Shlomo Lieberman and Ulrich Leinz

Performed in German, English and Hebrew, LeinzLieberman confronted three very different love stories in their performance: the disturbing memories about the grandmother who survived Auschwitz, the painful love letters of the German grandfather from Warsaw in 1943 and their own attempt to survive their relationship as a gay German/Israeli couple in Berlin. LeinzLieberman revived the work in the fall of 2017 as our company-in-residence and remain one of most frequent collaborators. Shlomo Lieberman also served as a member of the curatorial team for the 2019 and 2020 Expo Festivals.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #leinzlieberman

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS: The Other / Promised Land by LeinzLieberman

Created and Performed by Shlomo Lieberman and Ulrich Leinz

Performed in German, English and Hebrew, LeinzLieberman confronted three very different love stories in their performance: the disturbing memories about the grandmother who survived Auschwitz, the painful love letters of the German grandfather from Warsaw in 1943 and their own attempt to survive their relationship as a gay German/Israeli couple in Berlin. LeinzLieberman revived the work in the fall of 2017 as our company-in-residence and remain one of most frequent collaborators. Shlomo Lieberman also served as a member of the curatorial team for the 2019 and 2020 Expo Festivals.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #leinzlieberman

28/01/2021

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS

LUCID PRODUCTIONS / Dublin - Rum and Vodka by Conor McPherson - performed by Alexander Downes. Directed by Colin O´Connor. 11 performances between January 5 and 15, 1999.

With The Weir, Irish playwright Conor McPherson had a worldwide stage hit in the late 1990s that made him the "Wunderkind of Irish theater". Lucid Productions from Dublin came to ETB in January of 1999 with McPherson´s first play, a monologue about three days in the down-spiraling life of a Dubliner collapsing in a drinking binge - a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe a few months earlier. Alexander Downes filled the house for eleven nights. A number of dramaturgs and directors from Berlin´s theater community came to see it, and the following seasons numerous McPherson productions popped up in Berlin. With Rum and Vodka, we started a long-running series of new Irish work that culminated in The Full Irish, a ten-day festival in May 2013.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #irishtheatre #conormcpherson #conormcphersonplays

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 30 YEARS

LUCID PRODUCTIONS / Dublin - Rum and Vodka by Conor McPherson - performed by Alexander Downes. Directed by Colin O´Connor. 11 performances between January 5 and 15, 1999.

With The Weir, Irish playwright Conor McPherson had a worldwide stage hit in the late 1990s that made him the "Wunderkind of Irish theater". Lucid Productions from Dublin came to ETB in January of 1999 with McPherson´s first play, a monologue about three days in the down-spiraling life of a Dubliner collapsing in a drinking binge - a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe a few months earlier. Alexander Downes filled the house for eleven nights. A number of dramaturgs and directors from Berlin´s theater community came to see it, and the following seasons numerous McPherson productions popped up in Berlin. With Rum and Vodka, we started a long-running series of new Irish work that culminated in The Full Irish, a ten-day festival in May 2013.

#30yearsenglishtheatreberlin #theater #theatrelife #theatrelover #contemporarytheater #performance #performer #performingarts #theaterinberlin #theatrehistory #irishtheatre #conormcpherson #conormcphersonplays