Orlando at the Schaubühne theater
- A stage production of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando at the Schaubühne, part of this week's cultural highlights. - Performances are scheduled during the week of Apr 20–26, 2026. - Tickets, times and venue info are listed in the Berlin roundup travel2berlin.com.
Schaubühne is staging *Orlando* in Berlin this weekend, bringing Virginia Woolf’s shape-shifting 1928 novel back to Stage A in a 100-minute production directed by Katie Mitchell. (schaubuehne.de) The current run is scheduled for three performances: Friday, April 24, 2026 at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, April 25 at 8:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 26 at 3 p.m. at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. (berlin.de) Berlin.de lists tickets from €34.30, and Schaubühne lists the show in Saal A, its main auditorium. Travel2Berlin included the production in its Week 17 roundup for April 20–26, 2026. (berlin.de, schaubuehne.de, travel2berlin.com) Woolf published *Orlando* in 1928 as a mock biography that follows one character across centuries of British history while shifting sex from male to female. Encyclopaedia Britannica says the book was written as a tribute to Woolf’s friend Vita Sackville-West. (britannica.com) That source material helps explain why the stage version keeps resurfacing in repertory. Schaubühne describes Orlando as a figure who moves through four centuries while exposing how ideas about gender, art, politics and even “nature” are made by people and changed by time. (schaubuehne.de) Mitchell’s version uses a script by British playwright Alice Birch and mixes live acting with live video onstage. Schaubühne says the production follows Orlando’s “queer journey” through “various centuries of the patriarchal history of humankind.” (schaubuehne.de) The production is not new to Berlin audiences. Schaubühne says it premiered on September 5, 2019, and has since toured to Paris, Lisbon, Madrid and Gothenburg. (schaubuehne.de) The listed cast for the Berlin production includes Holger Bülow, Philip Dechamps, Cathlen Gawlich, Carolin Haupt, Jenny König, Isabelle Redfern, Alessa Schmitz, Konrad Singer and Alina Vimbai Strähler. The creative team includes set designer Alex Eales, costume designer Sussie Juhlin-Wallen, video director Grant Gee and sound designer Melanie Wilson. (schaubuehne.de) For Berlin this week, the draw is straightforward: a long-running Schaubühne production, a Woolf novel built around time and identity, and three performances left in the April 24–26 run. (berlin.de, schaubuehne.de)
