Culture non-stop - Summer programmes 2010
Art lovers in Vienna need not despair even though the State Opera, Burgtheater and other leading institutions are taking a well-deserved summer break: on 2 July Paulus Manker’s cult production ‘Alma’ goes into its 15th seasonmore...
Puppets come alive
Artistic director Karin Schäfer brings international puppetry highlights to her native Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost region, at the fourth International Festival of Visual Theatre, ‘PannOpticum’, in Neusiedl am See more...Top-Tips and Hotspots December 09
Under the motto “1989–2009 Alles bleibt anders” (Everything remains different), the 2nd Vienna Film Festival for Human Rights (3–13 Dec) focuses on human rights abuse in the past and present. more...It doesn’t always have to be Shakespeare
Dark, enigmatic and offbeat is the best way to describe the Viennese theatres’ autumn programmes this year, ranging from the unpronounceable new Suchy play Iaxnbruad in the Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße (TAG) ...more...
Otto Wagner hospital and cultural centre
The Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Baumgartner Höhe, Otto Wagner Spital [Baumgartner Höhe Social Medical Centre, Otto Wagner Hospital] is not only a hospital but also a cultural centre more...
| Strategy theatre: Mimamusch – theatre in the suburbs“Dead or alive?” Mimamusch, the offbeat ‘Strategietheater’ (strategy theatre), is asking this question on eight October evenings this year in Ottakring’s Ragnarhof more... |
Curtain up!
Vienna has always been a very ‘theatrical’ city. Whether it is light-hearted and funny plays, thoughtful and demanding performances or new and controversial works, there is a stage for everything in Vienna – even off the beaten tracks and at lesser-known venues more...Time travellers in Vienna’s Landstrasse district
People taking an evening stroll these days in Landstrasse, Vienna’s third district, might come across a group of time travellers – the Fink theatre group and their audiences on a journey of discovery ending in Paradise more...
| Fluchtarien in the Reception RoomFlight and exile are the central issues again in the former “Führer’s Room” at Vienna’s Volkstheater on 31 May. This time the focus is on the fate of women refugees more... |
| From stereotype to love or Between the citiesWhat happens when a young girl looking to party suddenly finds herself in a Slovak cultural institute? The inevitable, of course: she finds work, falls in love and opens a marriage bureau. What did you think? more... |
