BASILIKA ST. MICHAEL

by Martin Ganeider - October 24, 2024

As the leaves display their vibrant fall colors and Christmas approaches, it's time for the PALAZZO season in Vienna. The beloved dinner show has returned, nestled in the heart of the city's famous amusement park, the Wurstelprater. This year's theme differs from previous experiences in the Spiegelp...

by Martin Ganeider - October 11, 2024

Based on the famous German Musical movie from the 1930s starring Willy Fritsch, Oskar Karlweis, the legendary Heinz Rühmann, and Lilian Harvey, the stage adaptation is coming to Vienna's Metropol after a successful run at the Schloss Weitra Festival. The story is about three friends, Aris Sas (Willi...

by Martin Ganeider - September 25, 2024

This wicked establishment called Vindobona is humbled to present HEDWIG for the 24/25 season. This rampant, genderqueer, eastern Berlin Rock-Singers story is a Gift for Musical theatre: loud, nasty, sexy, profoundly moving, and—long story short— it rocks!...

by Martin Ganeider - June 28, 2024

Let's have a blast with Elisabeth the Musical-Concert Version for the fourth and last time in the picturesque courtyard of Schönbrunn Palace....

by Martin Ganeider - June 13, 2024

100 Years Tschauner, the latest Theater Comedy revue at Vienna's most famous impromptu stage, is the chosen production to kick off this year's Tschauner Season in the heart of Ottakring. It's the 115th anniversary, celebrating 115 years of delightful entertainment and countless unforgettable theatre...

by Gabor Szilagyi - May 22, 2024

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s eternal holiday favourite musical, The Sound of Music is so much more than a stage incarnation of the legendary, multi-award winner movie. The current German language version from Volksoper Wien is a faithfully produced, serviceably staged, beautifully sung performance, a r...

by Martin Ganeider - April 22, 2024

Davor/Danach (Before/After) is an intimate chamber musical written by Stuart Matthew Price and Timothy Knapman. It can be seen for the first time in German at the Theatre Spielraum in the heart of Vienna....

by Martin Ganeider - April 14, 2024

What did our critic think of ROCK OF AGES at Stadthalle Wien?...

by Martin Ganeider - March 16, 2024

What did our critic think of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Raimund Theater?...

by Martin Ganeider - February 08, 2024

What did our critic think of FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL at Stadthalle Wien? Remember those days when dancing in Bomont was prohibited, and we watched the young Kevin Bacon as Ren McCormack, giving it all for the sake of dancing and all the unfortunate souls in this prim little town. Of course, there wasn...