Switzerland Theatre Newsroom

Turandot is coming to Theatre Basel. This is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with text by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Learn more about the production here!

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You Do You Theatre Co. has announced its Zurich debut with Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed musical, The Last Five Years. Performances will take place at Theater STOK in February.

Into the Woods is coming to Theater Basel. In Stephen Sondheim's madcap cult musical, Grimm's most famous characters come together. Learn more about the show here!

Die Glasmenagerie is coming to Theater Basel this month. Tennessee Williams' classic about the disillusionment of a family was first performed in German in Basel in 1946.

Die Dreigroschenoper by Bertolt Brecht, with music by Kurt Weill, is now playing at Theatre Basel. Jörg Pohl, actor and co-director of the drama department at Theater Basel, was recently awarded the Gertrude Eysoldt Ring.

Geerbte Schulden zwingen sie, ihre Lehre abzubrechen. Alleinstehend und mit ihrer kleinen Tochter Emma sucht sie nach einem Ausweg aus der Abwärtsspirale.

La traviata is coming to Theatre Basel next month. Performances will begin in January. Learn more about this upcoming production and find out how to get tickets here!

Die Schneekönigin comes to Theatre Basel this month. This production is modeled after Hans Christian Andersen in an adaptation by Franz Broich. 

Carmen is now playing at Theatre Basel. This is an opéra comique in four acts by Georges Bizet with text by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after the novella by Prosper Mérimée.

Der Fall comes to Theater Basel in 2025. Performances will begin in January. Learn more about this upcoming ballet performance and find out how to get tickets here!

Julia & Romeo comes to Theater Basel this month. Performances will begin on 30 November. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!

Into The Woods is now playing at Theater Basel. Performances began on 16 November 2024. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!

See production photos from the Swiss premiere of Dogfight-The Musical with the Zurich English-Speaking Theatre at the Theater im Seefeld (November 2024).

WISe.ART will support Ylan Anoufa’s upcoming “MINDREAMER’ exhibition and new collection of twin phygital art packages. The exhibition is set to premiere November 13 at Geneva-based gallery Gallery Re Source.

Die Schneekonigin comes to Theater Basel in November. Performances will run November 8 - January 4.

Tino Flautino und der Kater Leo comes to Theatre Basel. The performance is on 20 October.

Foreboding and poetic, 'The Martian Chronicles' tells of humanity's fragile existence and its ambivalent relationship with nature. The science fiction classic was published in 1950 and deals with the colonisation of Mars and observes how humans are capable of the best and the worst. Author Ray Bradbury was regarded as the poet of the rocket age. He achieved world fame with 'Fahrenheit 451' at the latest.

Juliet & Romeo by Icelandic power duo Erna Ómarsdóttir and Halla Ólafsdóttir is a punk ana¬lysis of archaic proportions in the form of a provocative and humorous bacchanal that defies all conventional expectations of love. The play is partly a comedy full of cheerful exuberance, partly a dark and bloody tragedy.

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Packer Galy Gay goes into town to buy a fish. On the way, he meets three soldiers from a special unit who have lost their fourth man during a break-in at a petrol station. To avoid attracting attention, they transform him into this fourth man. Galy Gay becomes Jeraiah Jip.

Der Steppenwolf comes to Theatre Basel this month. Performances will begin on 25 September.

Cold by Gastspiel comes to Theatre Basel this month. Performances run 21-22 September. Die neue Spoken Word Show von Fatima Moumouni & Laurin Buser.

Benedikt von Peter stages the third part of Richard Wagner's 'Ring' tetralogy as an intense search for identity. Isolated in the forest, Siegfried has grown up. Unaware of his origins, the young hero succeeds in conquering the Ring and freeing Brünnhilde.