Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Chris Dercon, incoming artistic director of Berlin’s Volksbühne Theatre, photographed this month at BQ Gallery in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Berlin's Senator for Culture Joe Chialo (R) introduces Matthias Lilienthal, the new artistic director of the Volksbuehne theatre ...

Things haven’t exactly gone smoothly for outgoing Tate Modern director Chris Dercon since it was announced that he will take over Berlin’s storied Volksbühne theater next year. Now he’s been dealt ...

In the cult TV show Slings and Arrows, set at a Stratford-inspired classical theatre company, Don McKellar plays a Canadian director named Darren Nichols who returns from Berlin "reborn" – and ready ...

Should Berlin's legendary Volksbühne theater cater to an international audience? Its new director Chris Dercon thinks so. But critics worry that Berlin is losing a one-of-a-kind gem in the name of ...

BERLIN (AP) — The manager of a prominent Berlin theater has stepped down in the wake of accusations by women of bullying and sexual harassment. Klaus Doerr announced his resignation from the German ...

Berlin's world-class theatre scene is facing a tempestuous season as the cash-strapped capital debates new leadership and how much culture it can bankroll. At the centre of the drama is the renowned ...

WEBVTT CREWS ARE FACING TOUGH CONDITIONS IN THE COLD. ADAM SEXTON JOINS US LIVE. SUBZERO TEMPERATURES IN BERLIN AS FIREFIGHTERS DO BATTLE WITH ASCII FLAMES INSIDE THE OLD PRINCESSE THEATER BUILDING. - ...

BERLIN — The scene of many great memories, but more recently the victim of neglect and arson, the former Princess movie theater on Main Street was razed on Monday. Opened in 1914, the Princess Theatre ...

One of Berlin's most famous theaters, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, is facing closure after a new court ruling. The move continues a trend of dying theaters in the former West Berlin. The Theater am ...