Until Sun 20 Jun
Ryuichi Sakamoto: his first major retrospective in Europe.
Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
16 €
Things to do in Berlin on Friday 25 December: 576 events, among them 289 in exhibitions and museums, 118 in tours and walks, 44 in theatre, 21 in talks and readings, 20 in comedy, 14 in kids and family and 70 others.
Until Fri 5 Feb
Tosca: Puccini's opera of jealousy, by Alvis Hermanis.
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Price unknown
Until Sun 17 Jan
from 16:00
Pippi Longstocking: children's opera for the family.
Schillertheater
15 €
Until Sat 26 Jun
from 20:15
Philharmoniker close the season with Harding, Hadelich.
Waldbühne
from 53 €
Until Fri 22 Jan
Performing Arts Season by the Berliner Festspiele.
Gropius-Bau
Price unknown
Until Sun 2 May
from 11:00
Sophie Calle: Is It Better?, photos, texts and video works.
Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Price unknown
Until Mon 18 Jan
Das Herz eines Boxers: Jojo meets ex-boxer Leo.
GRIPS Theater
20 €
Fri 25 Dec · 19:30
Hamlet: Ostermeier's Shakespeare staging with Lars Eidinger.
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Price unknown
Until Sun 17 Jan
Art and migration in Kreuzberg since 1960.
Gropius-Bau
15 €
Until Sun 3 Jan
Ruin and Rush: 1920s Berlin with Kirchner, Dix and Höch.
Neue Nationalgalerie
Price unknown
Until Sun 17 Jan
Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem: Schlingensief retrospective.
Gropius-Bau
15 €
Until Sun 17 Jan
Focus Japan: Japan's performing arts at the Festspiele.
Price unknown
Until Sun 7 Mar
Preis der Nationalgalerie: Maurizio Cattelan.
Neue Nationalgalerie
from 10 €
Fri 25 Dec · 18:00
Jewgeni Onegin: Tchaikovsky's opera of four young people.
Schillertheater
Price unknown
Until Sun 25 Apr
Stress Test: post-1945 art with Beuys, Abramović, Warhol.
Neue Nationalgalerie
16 €
Until Thu 31 Dec
BAUBAU: Free play space for kids at the Gropius Bau.
Gropius-Bau
Free
Until Sun 18 Apr
from 10:00
Genghis Khan: treasures of Mongolia.
James-Simon-Galerie
from 14 €
Until Mon 25 Jan
Lovis Corinth: exhibition on his Berlin years.
Berlinische Galerie
from 7 €
Until Sun 24 Oct
from 10:00
Next Door: Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman in the Rieckhallen.
Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
16 €
Until Sun 31 Jan
Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck: Flemish Baroque drawings.
Kupferstichkabinett
6 €
Until Sun 3 Jan
Shilpa Gupta: works on language, borders, power.
Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
16 €
Until Sun 28 Feb
from 19:30
WIR SIND AM LEBEN: Musical about early-90s Berlin.
Theater des Westens
32.49 €
Fri 25 Dec · 19:30
Der Schnittchenkauf: theatre by René Pollesch.
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Price unknown
Fri 25 Dec · 20:00
It's Britney, Bitch!: Theatre on Spears with Sina Martens.
Berliner Ensemble
Preis A
Until Wed 30 Dec
Der Holocaust – Was wussten die Deutschen?: exhibition.
Topographie des Terrors
Free
Fri 25 Dec · 19:30
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick: reading with Max Hopp.
Berliner Ensemble
Preis B
Until Sun 14 Mar
Portraits: Botticelli to Lempicka.
Gemäldegalerie
16 €
Until Tue 29 Dec
Lino Café: linocut and printing workshop by Learn Lino.
Kunstraum Heartspace
36.50 €
Until Sun 28 Feb
Gursky, Miró, Warhol meet the long 19th century.
Alte Nationalgalerie
16 €
Until Fri 23 Apr
Salon Rosie – Das Musical, starring Steffi Irmen.
Theater des Westens
from 65.99 €
Until Sat 24 Apr
Thumbelina as a puppet play for ages three and up.
Theater Mirakulum
Price unknown
Until Wed 6 Jan
Staatssicherheitsinhaftierung: portraits by André Wagenzik.
Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
Free
Fri 25 Dec · 17:00
Manuale des Jetzt: organ concert with Bach and Nutcracker.
Nikolaikirche
5 €
Until Sat 9 Jan
Linie 1: Musical revue about big-city life in Berlin.
GRIPS Theater
Price unknown
Until Thu 31 Dec
from 19:30
BLINDED by DELIGHT: Grand Show of dreams and happiness.
Friedrichstadt-Palast
from 19.80 €
Fri 25 Dec · 19:00
Rosa L.: How Rosa Luxemburg became an icon of the left.
Deutsches Theater
Ausverkauft
Until Sun 10 Jan
KOO JEONG A – OUSSSEAN: glowing paintings and magnet towers.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Price unknown
Until Sun 21 Feb
Alberto Giacometti – works from the Klewan collection.
Gutshaus Steglitz
Free
Until Sun 10 Jan
Susan Hiller – Bad Dreams: dreams and the unexplained.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Price unknown
Fri 25 Dec · 17:00
Kintsugi!: Contemporary circus by Machine de Cirque.
Chamäleon
from 39 €