As per usual I tried to squeeze in as much theatre as I could during my stay in London and these are my top choices, writes Sabine Koch… Titanique An incredible experience. The musical is daft in the best way, mapping the story of the hit movie filtered through Celine Dion’s songs and a back […]
Cozy, Arty and Historical London: Where to Eat and Drink?
January 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This city always has a lot to offer and sometimes I, as a foreigner, have a different approach and can appreciate things that Londoner’s themselves might take for granted or don’t see anymore. So here I made a list of top 3 things (in no particular order) I enjoyed during my visit to London, writes […]
Dance Review: Staatsballett Berlin
November 18, 2024 by
Berlin is a very lucky city for its vast, colourful and accessible cultural landscape. One pillar of this is the Staatsballett Berlin. New artistic director Christian Spuck started the season 2023/2024 with his work, the fabulous BOVARY, based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. With his prima ballerina Weronika Frodyma as his muse and collaborateur […]
Review: Tanz im August – Dance in Berlin
September 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Summer in Berlin means the chance to see top notch dance. The festival Tanz im August (Dance in August) is a showcase for established companies and newcomers and for collaborations between international and local artists in all forms of dance. TOP TIP: It also a great way to dive into Berlin’s culture and event locations […]
“Let’s get together” Berlinale 2023
March 21, 2023 by
Bee takes another bite of the Berlinale – her informed and inimitable take on the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival in 2023. After being very successful last year, this year’s Berlinale upped the ante and went to 100% capacity. The audiences lapped it up with most screenings selling out and people congregating just like […]
Bee’s Pick of the Top 3 from Tanz im August Contemporary Dance Festival
October 6, 2022 by
The numbers are impressive: 87 performances, 21 productions, 200 performing artists from 25 countries in seven venues all over Berlin – that’s Tanz im August, one of the most important European festivals for contemporary dance. 2022’s festival saw director Virve Sutinen go out with a bang after nine years and Ricardo Camona, the new director starting […]
Film Review: Berlinale 2022 Bees Pick of the Best
February 23, 2022 by
So this year’s Berlinale Bear dared to roar again! As the first major film fest to go full “in person” in these pandemic times, the festival directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek took a risk and it paid off. At 50% capacity most screenings were sold out and the film buzz, while subdued, entered the […]
Live Theatre Review: Purity and laser-like focus for Pierrot Lunaire at Komische Oper
October 12, 2020 by
In these uncertain Corona times, you don’t have many opportunities to actually witness live theatre performances inside a venue. So I was very happy, writes Sabine ‘Bee’ Koch, to get a ticket for Pierrot Lunaire at the Komische Oper in Berlin. Categorized as three monodramas – two spoken word only, one with accompanying music – Not I […]
Theatre in the Time of Covid-19 Review: The Plague
June 19, 2020 by
With open-air events and meetings permitted for up to 200 people in Berlin from 2 June 2020, intrepid reviewer Sabine Koch sees ‘The Plague’ performed in the open air on the forecourt of the Deutsches Theater. My theatre feast was the open air performance of “Die Pest / The Plague” based on the novel by Albert Camus. The […]
Open Air Theatre Review: Maria Stuart
June 15, 2020 by
After months of social distancing and lockdowns, the irrepressible Berlin awakens from its ‘Sleeping Beauty’ cultural slumber. Some museums have opened their doors for reduced numbers of visitors – you can actually see the exhibits because of fewer people. The first open-air movie theatres started with their programs. Although these shows are shown as ‘sold out’, […]
