Burgtheater [ENA] Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz in Frank Castorf’s Burgtheater production is a fierce, unruly, and often exhilarating encounter with one of Austrian theatre’s most charged texts. Castorf does not present the play as a reverent museum piece; instead, he turns it into a volatile stage essay on memory, guilt, nationalism, and the persistence of historical violence, using theatrical excess as a way to expose the nerves of Bernhard’s language.   [Full story...]

Wiener Metropol [ENA] “Go West – Das Country-Rock-Musical” gallops back onto the stage of the Wiener Metropol as a gleefully anarchic Austro-Western, splicing honky-tonk energy with Viennese irony and a hearty dose of musical-theatre showmanship. Anchored by Andy Lee Lang, who “reitet wieder” in a new version of the 2010 cult hit, this revival understands itself not as a mere nostalgia project, but as a lovingly sharpened update.   [Full story...]