You want to go out today and are looking for things to see and do in Berlin? Our editors have selected the best event tips for today from selected categories: Shows and musicals, art exhibitions, concert highlights, theatre performances, comedy, dance, literature and more.
© Illustration: Jan Wünsche
Falling in Love - Grand Show
"Falling in Love" is the new Grand Show at the Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin. The show was curated and visually designed by star designer Jean Paul Gaultier. more
© Sunstroem
Ku'damm 59 - The Musical
The Schöllack sisters return to the stage. The new musical" tells the story of four fearless women who fight for emancipation and for their self-discovery in Berlin at the end of the 50s. more
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment
In 2024, Berlin celebrates one of the greatest portrait painters of all time: Alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals is one of the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. more
© Dan Lie
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024
A special exhibition by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin In 2024, the Preis der Nationalgalerie goes to Pan Daijing, Dan Lie, Hanne Lippard and James Richards, the first time the award has gone four artists. more
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders
Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape
The Alte Nationalgalerie will be presenting Claude Monet’s three earliest views of Paris, from 1867, which are considered to be the first Impressionist cityscapes. more
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Thomas Bruns © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023
Joseph Beuys: Collection Presentation
The Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin presents the extensive collection of works by the artist Joseph Beuys in the Kleihueshalle. more
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius
Wives and Goddesses: Female Figures in Classical Mythology
Classical mythology is a topic that continues to fascinate artists and audiences to this day: more recently, numerous books have been published in which women are given their own voices as mythical protagonists. more
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan returns to European stages in autumn as part of his highly acclaimed The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour, which has been selling out concert halls worldwide since 2021 more
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The Dark Comedy Open Mic
In the English comedy show comedians have the opportunity to spread black humor. Those who attend this show should not be immediately offended. more
© Marcel Urlaub
Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch (Notes from Underground)
A life without limits in the big city, the demand for freedom and the preeminence of one’s own life plans – of a life exclusively on one’s own terms: At the end of the day, there is very little room for all of this in “real” life. more
© Stars in Concert/Andreas Friese
Elvis - The Musical
The Elvis Musical in Berlin is a spectacular show that celebrates Elvis Presley's incredible career and musical legacy. The Elvis Musical offers audiences an incredible journey through the life and music of the "King of Rock 'n' Roll". more
© JR Berliner Ensemble
It's Britney, Bitch!
“To understand the world we live in, we have to know how we love – because if we know how we love, we understand how we can save the world.” more
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
The Leidner Donation
Since its founding in 1830, the Gemäldegalerie has been structured (and subsequently expanded) according to art-historical considerations. more
© Pia Arke Estate
Pia Arke: Arctic Hysteria
From the late 1980s until the beginning of the 2000s, Pia Arke mapped the intricate relations between time, memory, space, identity, and myth in pictures of and from Greenland. more
© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2024
In My Room
Is the contemporary crisis a crisis of masculinity? The time is ripe for new ideas. But even though everything is shifting, a conservative social rollback is emerging. more
© Luiz Roque
Luiz Roque: Estufa
Roque’s practice inhabits a space between expanded cinema, visual art, and critical theory. more
© Jimmy DeSana Trust
Ruins of Rooms looks at the genre of portraiture from the perspectives of Jimmy DeSana and Paul P.. By staging their works in a series of interiors, the two artists are placed in dialogue for the first time. more