Located smack bang in touristy Hackescher Markt and decorated with enormous photo prints of 1960s and '70s icons, Bang Bang is small yet inviting. The bleacher seats around the...

Berlin's cathedral holds some recommendable concerts, usually of the organ or choral variety.

Although it's part of the squatted Tacheles complex, Café Zapata stands on its own, booking top-flight folk and indie artists like Joanna Newsom, local hero Bruno Adams and...

While it mostly holds Schlager parties and cabaret nights, this elegantly restored 19th-century factory building occasionally presents a few interesting offbeat artists, such...

Despite its name, the Komische Oper puts on a broader range than just comic works, and, after its founding in 1947, made its reputation by breaking with the old operatic...

Formerly the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt, this 1821 architectural gem by Schinkel was all but destroyed in the war. Lovingly restored, it was reopened in 1984 with three...

NYC Mudd Club founder Steve Mass has rebirthed his venture in a brick-lined Berlin basement that resounds to Russendisko rather than No Wave. Indeed, Mudd self-consciously...

This musical academy was founded in 1950 and named after the composer of the East German national anthem. It offers students the chance to learn under some of the stars of...

This former club house for craftsmen and DDR theatre workshop now presents a contemporary programme of dance, theatre, music and opera, with up-and-coming groups from around...

The Staatsoper was founded as Prussia's Royal Court Opera for Frederick the Great in 1742, and designed along the lines of a Greek temple. Although the present building dates...

Translating as 'Palace of Tears', this roomy, fascinating location used to be the heavily patrolled DDR border crossing for people entering and leaving East Berlin. It mostly...

Two or three times a month, East Berlin's leading avant-garde theatre presents art music by the likes of Animal Collective and Brazilian dada songster Tom Zé. And sometimes it...