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Theaterfest

Theatre open day

The DNT opens its season with a day-long party across the house — opera gala, One-Minute-Show, new formats.

One day in September, opening the season

12Sep

The next edition has not been announced yet

About Theaterfest

The Deutsches Nationaltheater throws the whole house open to start its season — the one day in the year when the building is the event rather than anything staged inside it.

Classics and experiments in the same day

The programme keeps its fixtures — the opera gala, the One-Minute-Show — and sets new formats beside them. The house's own Spielplan opens the day outdoors with a Symphonic Mob on the Theaterplatz, which is a fair signal of the register: a state theatre behaving informally for a day, on purpose.

The day to come if theatres put you off

A house of this weight is intimidating from the pavement, and a normal evening there means choosing one production and committing to it. This is a day built for wandering instead — rooms open that are otherwise staff-only, short things rather than long ones, and no need to have decided in advance what you like.