Minsk
This suddenly state-of-the-art stadium in downtown Minsk reopened in 2018 after a six-year closure for renovations. Site of the opening and closing…
Must-see entertainment in Europe
Chueca
It looks like your average Madrid bar de copas (bar serving spirits and mixed drinks), but El Búho Real (The Royal Owl) is all about acoustic music. It…
Cardiff
This 33,300-seater is home to Cardiff City Football Club, a team that's back in the Championship League after a brief stint in the English Premier League…
The West End
The peripatetic Amused Moose can often be found pitched up at a Soho hotel, such as the Karma Sanctum. Shows are 'audience-friendly', so don't be afraid…
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
Dating from 1925, the two-screen Coliseum is a wonderful combination of high-tech comfort – digital screening and Italian chairs – and glamorous vintage…
Kreuzberg
This fringe theatre in a repurposed 19th-century ballroom presents cutting-edge and often provocative intercultural plays around the issues of migration…
Southern Rome
Located in the Villa Osio park near the Terme di Caracalla, the House of Jazz comprises three buildings housing a 150-seat auditorium, recording studio,…
Moscow
Everything about Yar is over the top, including the vast, gilded interior, the traditional Russian menu and the Moulin Rouge–style dancing girls. The…
Cork City
If you tire of the pubs, the live music and the theatre, there's always the dogs. Greyhound racing is big in Ireland, particularly with families, and…
Cologne
While its historical theatre on Offenbachplatz remains closed for extensive renovation until 2022, this dynamic ensemble presents its classical and…
Papa Joe’s Jazzlokal 'Em Streckstrump'
Cologne
Traditional jazz – Dixieland, New Orleans, Swing – riffs nightly in this museum-like place where the smoky brown walls are strewn with yesteryear’s…
Tirana
Tirana's centre for alternative theatre and arts puts on a different theatrical performance each month. Some of these are reworked versions of Shakespeare…
Temple Bar
This small theatre's location above a left-wing bookshop should be a guide to the kind of thinking that informs most of the performances taking place on…
Toledo
Though Toledo's nightlife might not be exactly legendary, and it's day trip fodder for many, this 12th-century Mudéjar-style church, deconsecrated in 1842…
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Berlin
This venerable 'people's theatre' opened in 1914 and was known for its nonconformist, radical and provocative productions under its long-time director…
Cardiff
Home to both the Cardiff Rugby Football Club, aka the Blue & Blacks, founded in 1876, and the Cardiff Blues (www.cardiffblues.com), the professional…
Vilnius
Founded just before Lithuania achieved legal independence from the Soviet Union, in March 1990, the Small Theatre has occupied its present premises since…
Kreuzberg
Cosy and knick-knack-laden, this Kreuzberg institution has plied an all-ages, all-comers crowd of jazz and blues lovers with tunes and booze for over 30…
Rome
Near the Villa Borghese's southern entrance (Piazzale San Paolo del Brasile), the Cinema dei Piccoli is the world’s smallest cinema according to the…
Cardiff
Inside the popular Porter's Bar this tiny one-room theatre houses less than 50 audience members per performance. Its groundbreaking, risk-taking shows…
Akureyri
The only professional theatre company outside the Reykjavík area performs drama, musicals, dance and opera, with its main season running from September to…
Rotterdam
In a handsome building where stoking and other ship-related trades were once taught, this hybrid restaurant, bar and club hosts regular live comedy gigs…
Southeast Wales
Set in rolling parkland alongside the River Wye, north of the town centre, Chepstow Racecourse is one of Britain's most famous horse-racing venues. It's…
Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas & Costa Adeje
This vast auditorium (one of the largest in Europe) regularly stages world-class shows that typically combine flamenco, opera and dance. There is an…
Vienna
The Schauspielhaus pushes the boundaries of theatre in Vienna with unconventional productions, in German and often in English. Whatever the theme, you can…
Wiesbaden
Dostoevsky gambled at this historic casino. To do the same (or have a drink at its bars), men will need a jacket, a button-down shirt and non-sports shoes…
Ghent
Hidden down the tiny alley behind ’t Dreupelkot jenever (gin) bar, this is a great place to seek out live acoustic music. Be it jazz, gypsy, blues or…
Funchal
Funchal's large English Church, the epicentre of British expat life, seems to be used more for live music and various other events than for Christian…
Rome
In Villa Borghese, the Casa del Cinema comprises three projection halls, an exhibition space, and a 200-seat outdoor theatre. It screens everything from…
Lucca
During his teenage years Puccini performed as a piano accompanist at this 17th-century theatre, where the curtain would later rise on some of his best…
Venice
It's a gimmick for sure, but the Scuola Grande dei Carmini provides a sumptuous backdrop for classical concerts performed in masks and 18th-century…
North London
You can find your way to the O2 Forum – once the famous Town & Country Club – by the ticket touts that line the way from Kentish Town Tube station. This…
Northeast Belgium
The 1972 facade is architecturally questionable but Turnhout's cultural centre was renovating its theatre at the time of research. There's an exhibition…
Kreuzberg
With its L-shaped bar and leather sofas, this low-key, living-room-sized cellar club hosts the kind of music that doesn’t always find a home in Berlin’s…
Bay of Naples
Located in suburban Fuorigrotta, west of central Naples, the architecturally uninspiring Palapartenope is the biggest indoor concert venue in town. A 6000…
Gdańsk
This salty warren of crusty old sea hands on Spichlerze Island has a delightfully tumble-down feel. Most nights sailors and their wives just meet up for…
Prenzlauer Berg
This living-room-style comedy club delivers an assembly line of belly laughs in cosy digs at a former bank building. Check the schedule for English…
Olomouc
Usually known by its nickname ‘Ponorka’ (literally ‘submarine’), this is possibly the loudest and most crowded rock club-pub in Czechia (and that’s saying…
La Latina & Lavapiés
The music here is all about funk, soul, jazz, the American South, Afrobeat and even a little hip-hop. It’s a club with attitude and always has a great…
Southern Rome
Inaugurated in 1999 in the post-industrial landscape of Rome’s southern suburbs, the India is the younger sister of Teatro Argentina. It’s a stark, modern…
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