Theatre this week25 Sep – 1 Oct 2026

Theatre around the world: where to go, city by city

Theatre travels less well than music, because language gets in the way, but every city on Togoist has stages where it doesn’t matter: opera and dance houses, musicals, physical theatre, and a handful of national theatres that surtitle in English. Here is where to go, with addresses, and a link to the plays, musicals and shows on in each city right now.

Theatre in London, Dublin and Edinburgh

Theatre in London is the West End, around forty houses within a ten-minute walk of Leicester Square, plus the subsidised stages that feed it: the National Theatre on the South Bank (Upper Ground, SE1), with day tickets and a rolling repertoire, and the Barbican (Silk Street) for international companies. Theatre in Dublin starts at the Abbey (26 Lower Abbey Street), the national theatre founded by Yeats, with the Gate on Parnell Square for the classics and the Gaiety for musicals and the Christmas panto. Theatre in Edinburgh means the Fringe in August, the largest arts festival in the world, and the Lyceum and Traverse for the rest of the year.

Theatre in New York and the American cities

Theatre in New York is Broadway’s forty-one houses around Times Square, with same-day discounts from the TKTS booth, and the Off-Broadway stages where the plays start, the Public Theater on Lafayette Street above all. Los Angeles, Boston and Las Vegas take the touring productions and the residencies.

Theatre in Paris, Berlin and Vienna

Theatre in Paris is in French, but the Comédie-Française on the Rue de Richelieu, the Théâtre du Châtelet’s musicals and the city’s circus companies are worth it regardless. Theatre in Berlin is where European directors make their names: the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and the Schaubühne in Charlottenburg both surtitle selected nights in English. Theatre in Vienna has the Burgtheater (Universitätsring 2), the German-speaking world’s most important stage, and the Theater in der Josefstadt.

Theatre in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Amsterdam

Theatre in Copenhagen centres on the Royal Danish Theatre’s three houses, the Old Stage on Kongens Nytorv, the Opera House on Holmen and the Playhouse on the harbour. Theatre in Stockholm has Dramaten, the Royal Dramatic Theatre on Nybroplan, and Cirkus on Djurgården for the musicals. Theatre in Amsterdam is unusually English-friendly: Internationaal Theater Amsterdam surtitles most nights, Royal Theatre Carré takes the big tours, and Boom Chicago performs comedy in English every night.

Theatre in Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Milan and Rome

Theatre in Madrid runs along Gran Vía, the city’s Broadway, with Spanish versions of the big musicals, and at the Teatro de la Zarzuela for Spain’s own light opera. Theatre in Barcelona has the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and the Teatre Lliure, and flamenco tablaos near the Rambla. Theatre in Lisbon is at the São Luiz Teatro Municipal in Chiado; theatre in Milan at the Piccolo Teatro, founded by Giorgio Strehler, and the Teatro degli Arcimboldi; theatre in Rome at the Teatro Argentina, where Rossini’s Barber of Seville premiered.

How to use these pages

The list at the top is the live pick: one show per city, the fullest listing first, refreshed every hour. Each city page shows every play, musical and show on there tonight, this weekend and this week, with times, venues, prices and a ticket link to Ticketmaster, the official seller.