Austria Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations

Review: SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL at Stadthalle Wien
by Martin Ganeider - December 24, 2024

The nuns hit the road and visit Vienna for the most wonderful time of the year. Opening in town on December 23rd for a strictly limited run, the show, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner, is bringing loads of nun fun back to Vienna, where it onc...

Review: WICKED THE MOVIE at Cinemas
by Martin Ganeider - December 12, 2024

It's the most anticipated movie of the year. We have been waiting for a long time to experience the transfer from the stage version to the silver screen. With all the social media buzz, it's hard to escape WICKED THE MOVIE (Part 1). Still, apart from the Cynthia  Erivo/Ariana Grande exhibit friendsh...

Review: BOOK PRESENTATION CASPAR RICHTERS MEMOIRS at DAS VINDOBONA
by Martin Ganeider - November 27, 2024

Caspar Richter, the long-time musical director of the most valuable musical orchestra in Europe, the VBW Orchestra, who left us in February 2023, was working on his memoirs with author Christine Piswanger-Richter, to release the final work on September 16, his 80th birthday. It would have been a ple...

Review: RICHARD O'BRIEN'S ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Museumsquartier WIen
by Martin Ganeider - November 23, 2024

What did our critic think of RICHARD O'BRIEN'S ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Museumsquartier WIen?...

Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Landestheater Linz
by Martin Ganeider - November 17, 2024

SOMETHING ROTTEN! opens in Linz for its German Language Premiere. The show, written by Karey Kirkpatrick, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and John O'Farrell, is presented in German for the first time....

Review: TONI MÖRWALD'S PALAZZO at Spiegelpalast
by Martin Ganeider - October 24, 2024

As the leaves display their vibrant fall colors and Christmas approaches, it's time for the PALAZZO season in Vienna. The beloved dinner show has returned, nestled in the heart of the city's famous amusement park, the Wurstelprater. This year's theme differs from previous experiences in the Spiegelp...

Review: DIE DREI VON DER TANKSTELLE at Metropol
by Martin Ganeider - October 11, 2024

Based on the famous German Musical movie from the 1930s starring Willy Fritsch, Oskar Karlweis, the legendary Heinz Rühmann, and Lilian Harvey, the stage adaptation is coming to Vienna's Metropol after a successful run at the Schloss Weitra Festival. The story is about three friends, Aris Sas (Willi...

Review: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at DAS VINDOBONA
by Martin Ganeider - September 25, 2024

This wicked establishment called Vindobona is humbled to present HEDWIG for the 24/25 season. This rampant, genderqueer, eastern Berlin Rock-Singers story is a Gift for Musical theatre: loud, nasty, sexy, profoundly moving, and—long story short— it rocks!...

Review: ELISABETH IN CONCERT at Schönbrunn Palace
by Martin Ganeider - June 28, 2024

Let's have a blast with Elisabeth the Musical-Concert Version for the fourth and last time in the picturesque courtyard of Schönbrunn Palace....

Review: 1000 JAHRE TSCHAUNER at Tschauner Bühne
by Martin Ganeider - June 13, 2024

100 Years Tschauner, the latest Theater Comedy revue at Vienna's most famous impromptu stage, is the chosen production to kick off this year's Tschauner Season in the heart of Ottakring. It's the 115th anniversary, celebrating 115 years of delightful entertainment and countless unforgettable theatre...

Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Volksoper Wien
by Gabor Szilagyi - May 22, 2024

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s eternal holiday favourite musical, The Sound of Music is so much more than a stage incarnation of the legendary, multi-award winner movie. The current German language version from Volksoper Wien is a faithfully produced, serviceably staged, beautifully sung performance, a r...

Review: DAVOR/DANACH (BEFORE/AFTER) at Theatre Spielraum
by Martin Ganeider - April 22, 2024

Davor/Danach (Before/After) is an intimate chamber musical written by Stuart Matthew Price and Timothy Knapman. It can be seen for the first time in German at the Theatre Spielraum in the heart of Vienna....

Review: ROCK OF AGES at Stadthalle Wien
by Martin Ganeider - April 14, 2024

What did our critic think of ROCK OF AGES at Stadthalle Wien?...

Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Raimund Theater
by Martin Ganeider - March 16, 2024

What did our critic think of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Raimund Theater?...

Review: FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL at Stadthalle Wien
by Martin Ganeider - February 08, 2024

What did our critic think of FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL at Stadthalle Wien? Remember those days when dancing in Bomont was prohibited, and we watched the young Kevin Bacon as Ren McCormack, giving it all for the sake of dancing and all the unfortunate souls in this prim little town. Of course, there wasn...

Review: WEST SIDE STORY at Volksoper
by Martin Ganeider - January 28, 2024

What did our critic think of WEST SIDE STORY at Volksoper?...

Review: CANDIDE at Museumsquartier Halle E
by Martin Ganeider - January 19, 2024

Leonard Bernstein's masterpiece, Candide, is back in Vienna for a strictly limited run. Based on Voltaire's 18th-century novel, Bernstein created a so-called comic operetta, or as some might say, a musical in an old-fashioned way. You may call it whatever you want. At the end of the evening, it is a...

Review: WORKING at MUK Theater
by Martin Ganeider - December 18, 2023

There might be no better place for a university for music and arts than in the heart of Vienna, surrounded by historical buildings where the greatest composers of all time have been strolling around. Unsurprisingly, many now-famous musical actors, like the latest newcomer, Moritz Mausser (ROCK ME AM...

Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Raimund Theater
by Martin Ganeider - November 21, 2023

What did our critic think of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Raimund Theater?...

Review: TICK,TICK...BOOM! at Volksoper
by Martin Ganeider - October 29, 2023

What did our critic think of TICK,TICK...BOOM! at Volksoper?...

Review: MASTER CLASS at Das Vindobona
by Martin Ganeider - October 18, 2023

December 02, 2023, would be the 100th birthday of the world's greatest opera singer, Maria Callas. What a great reason to bring back Arie Zingers Volkstheater's production from 1997 with Andrea Eckert, recreating her critically acclaimed performance, now at the stage of Wolfgang Ebner's Vindobona fo...

Review: ROCK ME AMADEUS THE FALCO MUSICAL at RONACHER THEATER
by Martin Ganeider - October 08, 2023

What did our critic think of ROCK ME AMADEUS THE FALCO MUSICAL at RONACHER THEATER?...

Review: ELISABETH IN CONCERT at Schönbrunn Castle
by Martin Ganeider - June 30, 2023

What did our critic think of ELISABETH IN CONCERT at Schönbrunn Castle? The dramatically touching story about Austria's famous Empress Elisabeth is back for a three-night Open Air Concert in Schönbrunn's grand forecourt....

Review: NONNSENSE at TSCHAUNER BÜHNE
by Martin Ganeider - June 19, 2023

What did our critic think of NONNSENSE at TSCHAUNER BÜHNE? Let's get Tschaunern, Vienna's most famous impromptu stage, kicked off the 2023 season with Dan Goggin's Musical Comedy, Nonnsense. ...

Review: DIRTY DANCING THE ORIGINAL LIVE ON TOUR at WIENER STADTHALLE
by Martin Ganeider - June 14, 2023

What did our critic think of DIRTY DANCING THE ORIGINAL LIVE ON TOUR at WIENER STADTHALLE? 'No one puts baby in a corner.' One of the most iconic movie quotes of all time, embossed by Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle. The movie became a phenomenon, but it took years to convince Eleanor Bergstein to t...