Malá Strana
A legendary Prague venue, Malá Strana’s four-storey entertainment palace boasts a fabled music club on the 2nd floor, with a lively roster of Czech acts…
Malá Strana
A legendary Prague venue, Malá Strana’s four-storey entertainment palace boasts a fabled music club on the 2nd floor, with a lively roster of Czech acts…
Friedrichshain
With space for 1500 in the former cultural hall of a Cold War–era train repair station, Astra is one of Berlin's bigger indie concert venues, yet it often…
Warsaw
From Tuesday to Thursday at 5pm, the 70-minute documentary The River of Treasures about sculptures lying for 350 years at the bottom of the Vistula River…
Düsseldorf
Reopened in 2015 by saxophonist Peter van der Heusen, this narrow Altstadt burrow presents live and recorded jazz and related sounds every night that it's…
Kraków
This red-velvet club harking back to the 1920s, both in appearance and programme, sponsors all types of shows from cabaret to burlesque, theatre, folk and…
Hanover
Hanover's newest premium cinema complex is one of Germany's largest, with 10 screens, luxury seating and state-of-the-art, well, everything. Usually shows…
Prague
An artistic treasure in an unlikely spot in Holešovice, the Alfred regularly stages demanding works of drama, dance, cabaret and movement theatre,…
Kreuzberg
In a former red-brick post office, this retro-styled venue draws an easygoing crowd with concerts and parties that don’t chase the latest trends. Expect a…
Prague
Kasárna Karlín is a popular hang-out spot in former barracks facilities. You can enjoy all sorts of activities: outdoor and indoor cinema screenings,…
Frankfurt am Main
Tucked away in the southeastern corner of Konstablerwache, Nachtleben has a cafe with a terrace on the ground floor and hosts concerts that showcase…
Prague
Look for the black door marked only with a little sign of a tower, and you've found Varšava, an intimate, underground club for live music. The small stage…
Vienna
The Burg Kino shows The Third Man, Orson Welles’ timeless classic set in post-WWII Vienna, at least three times a week in English without subtitles. Most…
Munich
A venerable theatre with an edgy bent, the Kammerspiele delivers provocative interpretations of the classics as well as works by contemporary playwrights…
Friedrichshain
Big bad Berghain's little sister has taken over the former staff canteen of the giant ex-power station. The space holds up to 200 people and mostly puts…
Vienna
Tanzquartier Wien, located in the MuseumsQuartier, is Vienna’s first dance institution. It hosts an array of local and international performances with a…
Berlin
Cool cats of all ages come out to this jazz and acoustic music venue, where the audience sits within spitting distance of the performers. Big names like…
Friedrichshain
The East German film elite once held its movie premieres in this 1960s cinema, whose glamourous get-up of chandeliers and glitter curtains is a show in…
Berlin
Fancy taking in a piano concert in a former bus and tram repair station in industrial Wedding? The brainchild of Christoph Schreiber, this unusual…
Kreuzberg
One of Berlin’s finest music venues has set up in the gorgeous slender-columned and brick-vaulted stables of a 19th-century Prussian regiment. The low-key…
Prague
A popular cellar dance bar on Vinohrady’s main drag. The name translates to ‘hanky panky’ in Czech, and that’s what most of the swank people who come here…
Budapest
Moored on the Buda side just south of Petőfi Bridge, the A38 is a decommissioned Ukrainian stone hauler from 1968 that has been recycled as a major live…
Düsseldorf
No German language skills are needed to enjoy the enchanting line-up of acrobats, comedians, magicians, artistes and other variety acts performing under…
Dresden
Small, smoky and smooth, this converted space has concerts featuring regional talent almost nightly (usually jazz, but also blues and rock), then turns…
Canton of Zürich
Dance to your favourite '80s tunes or sing along to local or international bands at this popular nightclub and music venue. Set in an old salt warehouse…
Fairy-Tale Road
Founded in reaction to mainstream theatre in the 1950s, Göttingen’s Junges Theater has long since professionalised, and enjoys a high reputation…
Bremen City
The local Bundesliga team Werder Bremen is less a football team than a sporting religion. Worship takes place at the Weserstadion, where a seat costs €35…
Fairy-Tale Road
Started as a cabaret and culture venue in 1971, Apex offers the perfect combination of art gallery, performance venue and restaurant. The food (served 6pm…
Leipzig
Leipzig’s Opernhaus (opera house) has a 300-year-old pedigree, though the building only went up in the 1950s. The program is an eclectic mix of classics…
Frankfurt & Southern Rhineland
Industrial 1920s brick surrounds provide great acoustics at this live music venue, where punk, alternative, metal and rock bands take to the stage…
Kraków
Awesome live music club and cocktail bar with an eclectic programme of electronica, rock and occasional stand-up comedy nights. The cocktail menu is…
Staré Město
Now an established venue on the capital's jazz scene, the Blues Sklep (sklep means ‘cellar’) is a typical Old Town basement with dark, Gothic-vaulted…
Hanover
This spacious art-house cinema is on the top floor of a magnificent expressionist building designed by Fritz Höger, the architect of Hamburg’s Chilehaus…
Vienna
With an interior dating from the 1960s, this cinema seats a whopping 736 people, and is packed during Viennale Film Festival screenings. Its regular…
Baden-Baden
The Baden-Baden Theater is a neo-baroque confection of white-and-red sandstone with a frilly interior that looks like a miniature version of the Opéra…
Staré Město
Set in the ramshackle shell of an art-deco cinema, the legendary Roxy has nurtured the more independent end of Prague’s club spectrum for almost three…
Vienna
First established on this site in 1871 and rebuilt in 1888, this grand theatre has a capacity of 1020. It hosts major musicals and theatre productions,…
Zürich
Cinema, events hall, bookshop, bistro, bar: Kosmos has many faces. The cinema screens art-house movies, and an extensive events list ranges from readings…
Cologne
An institution in Cologne's alternative scene, this club in the hip cross-cultural Ehrenfeld borough has programming as eclectic as the crowd. Depending…
Prague
This experimental theatre space, where Czech and international dramatic works are performed, is admired for its commitment to staging ‘English-friendly’…
Berlin
Hidden in the Edison-Höfe, a stylishly renovated light-bulb factory, this cellar venue hosts fine jazz and blues concerts (many of them free), as well as…
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