Berlin
Cool cats of all ages come out to this jazz and acoustic music venue, where the audience sits within spitting distance of the performers. Big names like…
Must-see entertainment in Berlin
Berlin
Fancy taking in a piano concert in a former bus and tram repair station in industrial Wedding? The brainchild of Christoph Schreiber, this unusual…
Kreuzberg
One of Berlin’s finest music venues has set up in the gorgeous slender-columned and brick-vaulted stables of a 19th-century Prussian regiment. The low-key…
Historic Mitte
This lovely classical music venue – a Schinkel design from 1821 – counts the top-ranked Konzerthausorchester Berlin as its ‘house band’, but also hosts…
Neukölln
Neukölln’s refurbished prewar ballroom has an anti-elitist crossover repertoire, including intelligent musical theatre, original productions and…
Berlin
Hidden in the Edison-Höfe, a stylishly renovated light-bulb factory, this cellar venue hosts fine jazz and blues concerts (many of them free), as well as…
Kreuzberg
Named after a David Lynch road movie, this kitsch-cool dive with blood-red walls, tiki gods and Elvis paraphernalia hammers home punk, ska, surf-rock and…
City West & Charlottenburg
As its name implies, comfort levels are elevated in this mini-multiplex specialising in quality international films presented in their original language…
Neukölln
This vivacious bar offers stand-up and improv shows in English five nights a week, with many free shows and a lot of varied performances from Berlin's…
Neukölln
Run by the Italian documentary filmmaker Carla Molino and friends, this 52-seat indie cinema with quality sound, projection and seating presents a smartly…
Historic Mitte
Tipi stages a year-round program of professional cabaret, dance, acrobatics, musical comedy and magic shows starring German and international artists. It…
Kreuzberg
A 1950s cinema has been recycled into a rock-indie-electro-pop hub with mosh-pit electricity and a crowd that cares more about the music than about…
Berlin
This five-screen indie cinema, upstairs in Court I of the Hackesche Höfe complex, presents a well-curated mix of European art-house movies, documentaries…
Freiluftkino Insel im Cassiopeia
Friedrichshain
Part of the Cassiopeia beer garden and club complex on the RAW Gelände, this 350-seat outdoor cinema shows an eclectic roster of indie movies in their…
Berlin
This 1960s cinema in the courtyard of the Centre Francais (Wedding was part of the French sector during the city’s division) has a heady repertory of…
Berlin
This 17,000-seat outdoor amphitheatre in the district of Köpenick, about 12km southeast of Alexanderplatz, was built in the early 1950s from war debris…
Friedrichshain
This petite single-screen flick palace has presented movies since the silent era and is a delightful vintage venue to catch the latest art-house movies…
Kreuzberg
The white tent-shaped Tempodrom is a mid-sized venue with super-eclectic programming that may feature a salsa congress, an Iggy Pop concert, a magic show…
Schöneberg
This sumptuous cabaret venue with its sparkling starry-sky ceiling features changing variety shows, concerts, acrobats, magicians and other entertainers…
City West & Charlottenburg
Feel like a member of the Prussian court during this series of candlelit classical concerts, where musicians dressed in powdered wigs and historical…
Historic Mitte
This beautifully restored 1920s ‘palace’ stages crowd-pleasing musicals and concerts in its glamorous historic grand hall. More intimate programs like…
Kreuzberg
This fringe theatre in a repurposed 19th-century ballroom presents cutting-edge and often provocative intercultural plays around the issues of migration…
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Berlin
This venerable 'people's theatre' opened in 1914 and was known for its nonconformist, radical and provocative productions under its long-time director…
Kreuzberg
Cosy and knick-knack-laden, this Kreuzberg institution has plied an all-ages, all-comers crowd of jazz and blues lovers with tunes and booze for over 30…
Kreuzberg
With its L-shaped bar and leather sofas, this low-key, living-room-sized cellar club hosts the kind of music that doesn’t always find a home in Berlin’s…
Prenzlauer Berg
This living-room-style comedy club delivers an assembly line of belly laughs in cosy digs at a former bank building. Check the schedule for English…
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
Historic Mitte
The gifted students at Berlin’s top-rated music academy stage as many as 400 performances annually, many of them in the Neuer Marstall, where the Prussian…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
Ensconced on the 2nd floor of a former East Berlin telephone exchange, this indie troupe is a lab for contemporary plays that often push the thespian…
Kreuzberg
Berlin’s oldest English-language theatre puts on an engaging roster of in-house productions, plays by international visiting troupes, concerts, comedy,…
City West & Charlottenburg
One of Berlin's oldest live music clubs, Quasimodo has pulled jazz, blues, rock, soul, funk and Motown aficionados into its intimate cellar space since…
Prenzlauer Berg
For cutting-edge, experimental dance, there are few better places in town than this unpretentious space tucked into an old factory once owned by the…
Kreuzberg
Just opposite Tempelhofer Airport, this former US Air Force sports hall hosts up to 3500 fans for everything from international artists to punk festivals…
Prenzlauer Berg
Modern venue with 7500 seats for concerts, competitions and sporting events, including home games by the Füchse Berlin, a professional handball club…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
Near Alexanderplatz. Aside from regular tickets to events around town, this outfit also sells last-minute tickets for same-day performances at half price…
City West & Charlottenburg
Sells leftover tickets for same-day performances at half price between 2pm and 7pm, by phone or in person.
Historic Mitte
Tickets for the Komische Oper can be bought online or at the box office.
