Here is your guide to the performance options in January 2018.
Entries are arranged by theater or venue.
This former cinema retains its classy, nostalgic interior, and there is a splendid buffet with tasty cakes, coffee, and drinks. Still, expect steeper than usual prices (for the tickets, too). The stage was never remodeled. We are gazing at where the movie screen used to be, so the sight-lines are a little wonky. Clever directors are able to work ...
Adaptation is a risky undertaking especially when you move from one medium to another. Take, for example, movies adapted into plays. In Budapest alone, there is now a staggering number of stage pieces based on successful films. Maybe this makes economic sense, maybe it lures in bigger audiences, but artistically it often makes little sense. How can they hope to replicate the experience of a satisfying film ...
As a director, what do you do when you have a good play full of passionate speeches and emotional twists, a strong and professional cast, and the vast resources of the National Theatre? Unfortunately, András Dér decided to clutter it up with too much extraneous material. First, he projects a series of Jean Cocteau-related archive photos in a perpetual loop. Yet, it is annoying to see the ...
Here is your guide to the performance options in December 2017.
Entries are arranged by theater or venue.
This former cinema retains its classy, nostalgic interior, and there is a splendid buffet with tasty cakes, coffee, and drinks. Still, expect steeper than usual prices (for the tickets, too). The stage was never remodeled. We are gazing at where the movie screen used to be, so the sight-lines are a little wonky. Clever directors are able to work ...
Gypsy Baron and Oberon
The plot of The Gypsy Baron is simplicity itself, but to understand the cultural context we have to go back to when it was composed in 1884. Johann Strauss, Jr., was looking for a Hungarian story for his next operetta, and a collaborator suggested Mór Jókai’s short story (sometimes referred to as “Saffi”). This was after the failed Revolution of 1848, in which Jókai played an active role, and the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
Here is your guide to the performance options in November 2017.
Entries are arranged by theater or venue.
This former cinema retains its classy, nostalgic interior, and there is a splendid buffet with tasty cakes, coffee, and drinks. Still, expect steeper than usual prices (for the tickets, too). The stage was never remodeled. We are gazing at where the movie screen used to be, so the sight-lines are a little wonky. Clever directors are able to ...
Three mighty productions stand out in the current season for their sheer ambition. While many theatres and musical venues choose to play it safe by repeating and staging what are assumed to be sure-fire hits, it is thrilling to see producers invest considerably in projects that are not at all certain to win the public’s approval. As an audience member, I applaud these efforts. I want an artistic climate where theatres feel that it is worth taking big risks. Instead of safe, boring, and ...
