From April 25 at the Torn Space Theater in Buffalo Blood on the Cat’s Neck is another one of Fassbinder’s commissioned works and was written at the beginning of the 1970s for the Städtische Bühnen in Nuremberg. The premiere by the antitheater ensemble took place on March 20, 1971 as part of the series of (…)

Innovative productions in April and May Two interesting productions of Fassbinder’s early work Water Drops on Burning Rocks are currently running in France and Austria. The Festival Emulation in Liège has included the 2012 production by the young Belgian director Caspar Langhoff in its program. Performances are taking place from April 19–27 at 7 p.m. (…)

Premiere on April 19 directed by Andrej Woron Fassbinder’s play The Burning Village (Das brennende Dorf), which is based in the seventeenth-century drama Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega, is being presented in the current theater season by the Stadttheater in Constance. RWF wrote the play, which is a very free interpretation of the original (…)

Mozart’s opera with a revised libretto by Hans Neuenfels In the current season Elisabeth Trissenaar is appearing in the role of the Contessa in three performances of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at the Staatsoper Berlin. The performances are on April 6, 11 and 19, beginning in each case at 7 p.m. Director Hans Neuenfels has (…)

From April 4 in the Teatro Sala Fontana in Milan The stage version of Veronika Voss, which had its German premiere at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in September 2010, is now opening in Italy. The stage version is based on the film script written by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, which is in turn based on (…)