Mike Supancic is touring Austria. The versatile stage comedian will perform his new programme “Traumschiff Supancic” in venues across the country in the coming weeks and months. Supancic – who tells from the experiences of the guests on a cruise ship called MS Titanitsch in “Traumschiff Supancic” – will hit the stage in Graz, Krems […]
Plays by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek, Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nepomuk Nestroy will be performed at the Burgtheater (www.burgtheater.at) next season. Burgtheater director Matthias Hartmann announced that the theatre would stage a drama play based on Jelinek’s text “Schatten (Eurydike sagt)” from autumn. Jelinek’s “Winterreise” is currently performed to wide acclaim at […]
Alexander Wiegold’s attempt to create a gripping stage version of Stanislaw Lem’s famous novel “Solaris” can be considered as a full success. All members of the cast of the theatre production – now on at the Burgtheater’s Vestibül stage – perform on a high level but it is Oliver Masucci’s engagement which sticks out. Masucci […]
Burgtheater star Joachim Meyerhoff and the Volkstheater’s Marcello de Nardo are among nominees for this year’s Nestroy Award. Meyerhoff is nominated for his role as Dr Bernhardi in “Professor Bernhardi” by Arthur Schnitzler. The play is currently drawing the crowds at the Burgtheater. The Nestroy Award jury acknowledged de Nardo’s performance as Puntila in “Herr […]
An acclaimed German version of William Shakespeares celebrated comedy “Twelfth Night” or “What You Will” is now on at a Viennese theatre.Press voiced concerns whether the ensemble of the Burgtheater widely regarded as one of the most important theatres in German-speaking Europe can meet high expectations put into the eagerly awaited production called […]
A theatre play focusing on the media hunt on Natascha Kampusch is playing to sold-out crowds at a Viennese theatre.”Die Beteiligten” by Kathrin Röggla, which is now on at the Akademietheater, portrays the publics reaction to the headline-hitting abduction drama and Kampuschs decision to give a TV interview just days after she managed to flee […]
An activist dubbed The Porn Hunter has said he will hold a counter-demonstration against next months Life Ball.Austrian Martin Humer said today (Fri) his Christlich-Soziale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreich (CSA) movement will take to the streets in front of the Burgtheater in Vienna on 17 July to “peacefully” protest against the HIV/AIDS awareness event taking place on […]