Curated list updated daily · 26 October – 1 November
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Monday
Oct
Six young women tear apart the facade of the charming lady, delving into generations of female rage with recipes for staying angry.
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Berlin theatre collective andcompany&Co. presents a hybrid lecture‑concert and live radio play that plunges into the fog of contemporary hyperpolitics.
A group of young friends waiting for the last train at a desolate station notice that something is deeply wrong in this new horror play by Bonn Park.
The Junge Schauspiel Frankfurt’s young ensemble asks urgent questions about hope, fear and solidarity in a wondering generation.
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A single day uncovers buried addictions and old wounds in the Tyrone family in Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical masterpiece.
A documentary theatre piece by Nuran David Calis tracing the NSU 2.0 death threats and the network of right-wing extremism within the Frankfurt police.
Four people come together for a dinner that quickly turns into a night of reckoning, where business, money, and buried secrets collide.
Kafka's final story characters come to life as an absurd circus troupe, merrily sending up the entire theatre world.
A compact staging of Goethe's classic tragedy, blending medieval mystery play and modern drama to tell the story of a scholar's pact with the devil and his doomed love for Gretchen.
A visually striking, queer adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic about vanity, desire, and our image-obsessed age, with a modern commentary by Marcus Peter Tesch.
A satirical theatre trilogy following the anarchic wit of Schwejk through WWI, WWII, and the battle of Bakhmut.
A darkly comic thriller in which the eccentric Henk family celebrates its inheritance with a remarkably high body count.
Alan Bennett's witty espionage double bill shines a light on the lives of notorious Cambridge spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.
A medieval mystery staged outdoors at Grüneburgpark.
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Bonn Park’s grotesque horror-comedy about three friends trapped at a baffling train station, blending social satire, panic and playful unease.
Join Peterchen, Anneliese and Herr Sumsemann on a magical adventure to the moon, full of friendship and self-discovery.
A musical winter fairy tale based on the Brothers Grimm, with music by Mozart.
A musical retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a miller's daughter, a king, and a mysterious little man who can spin straw into gold.
A theatre adaptation of Franz Kafka's nightmarish novel about a man trapped in a labyrinth of absurd bureaucracy.
A humorous and touching musical based on Mark Twain's classic about friendship, first love and wild adventures on the Mississippi, with music by Kurt Weill.
A musical theatre adaptation of the Grimm Brothers' tale about a simple man who trades a gold nugget for a series of swaps, ending with a smartphone, and happily finds freedom.
30
Friday
Oct
Wednesday Addams is all grown up and secretly in love, but a disastrous dinner party threatens to expose the family's most bizarre secrets.
A region-wide contemporary dance festival presenting international performances, artist talks and after-show parties in Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Offenbach and Wiesbaden.
A 1920s-style revue adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel about a young couple navigating love and precarious work during the Great Depression.