Productions
Move to mountains with NEW SONGS FROM THE EARTH, found a free state on an oil rig with RADIOLAND, encounter the CLUB OF DEAD COMPONISTS in a desert – three options in the 22/23 season. Welcome to a world of transformation!
CRIME OF PASSION
CRIME OF PASSION
CRIME OF PASSION is the new work by non-binary Berlin based artist and musician Anthony Hüseyin. It examines femicide in opera, its historical roots, and its presence in our daily lives. Carmen, Salome and Violetta refuse to die again and again on stage. Instead, they reclaim their narratives, offering an ancestral, musical, and spiritual resistance. […]
To 07. December 2025.
DIGITAL SINS #4: LUST & GLUTTONY
DIGITAL SINS #4: LUST & GLUTTONY
Don Giovanni (from Mozart’s world-famous opera) is in despair: What’s going on here, in this new, digitally subjugated world?
To 19. November 2025.
Festival Opening: BAM!
Festival Opening: BAM!
BAM!, Berlin’s festival for contemporary music theatre, asks in its current edition: Where do we go from here? How is Berlin’s independent music scene responding to the rapid societal and global changes – and what artistic forms is it exploring to do so? The festival opens with a warm welcome from the organizers and guests […]
lavomatik
lavomatik
With their love for unusual sounds and their flair for intertwining acoustic and visual action, the young composition and performance duo Mercier/Böttcher has become an insider tip within the independent music theatre scene. In their piece, they explore the absurdity of life from inside a washing drum. What lies behind the strange idea of “purity” […]
Inner Monologue / Misspiece
Inner Monologue / Misspiece
With Poland as guest country, BAM! is dedicating itself this year to a nation that exerted decisive influence on the international theater avant-garde. This performance-oriented evening proves that theater in Poland has lost none of its rigor and intensity. Exploring the role of the body and the role of language from various angles, it also […]
To 21. November 2025.
YOUNG Music theatre from Poland
YOUNG Music theatre from Poland
With a theater that seeks to merge art and life, dispenses with all decoration, and demands existential commitment from performers, Poland became one of the leading countries in the international theater avant-garde of the 1960s. In the context of current discussions about the distribution of power in theater and strategies of mindfulness in the production […]
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
The arts are under increasing pressure. Not only financial and structural pressure, but also pressure to meet expectations: in a time of constantly growing global conflicts over ecology, war and displacement, distribution of power and wealth, the arts are expected to take a stand, open up new perspectives and offer utopian potential. How can these […]
THE BIGGEST CRIME
THE BIGGEST CRIME
Femicide occurs under the social guise of a “crime of passion”. Almost every third day in Germany, a woman is killed because of her gender. The murderers are always men and usually from their immediate social circles. The murders themselves are the catastrophic, inhumane culmination of psychological and physical violence against partners and ex-partners, daughters, […]
Der Zweite Kirschgarten
Der Zweite Kirschgarten
With music by Wolfgang Böhmer, written by Martin G. Berger The cherry orchard is for sale! So, the second cherry orchard – here and now in Germany, 2025. This seems to be a good time for the whole family to come together once more, as so many memories are tied to it. But also to […]
To 16. January 2026.
selemo
selemo
Back into the light, into beauty and into life! Spring symbolises the power of transformation, rebirth and an ancient promise of prosperity. What can this fantasy of abundance across geographical borders mean for us culturally, spiritually and sonically? The South African composers and performers Sbusiso Shozi and Nhlanhla Mahlangu from the Johannesburg Centre for the […]
To 01. March 2026.
