Siddhartha

Toneelhuis / Herman Hesse / KVS / Lisaboa Houbrechts

Lisaboa Houbrechts is rewriting Hermann Hesse’s iconic novel Siddhartha as a spectacular music theatre production with work by New York composer Caroline Shaw, performed live by the 24-member Latvian Radio Choir, and with Meskerem Mees as Siddhartha.

Point Nemo

Toneelhuis / Théâtre du Châtelet / FC Bergman

FC Bergman takes inspiration from Drumming, Steve Reich’s mesmerizing composition for percussion, to create a meditation on the urge for perfection, concentration and the importance of letting go.

Spaghetti Western

Toneelhuis / Kunstenwerkplaats / Aurelie Di Marino & Renée Goethijn

Amidst dirty plates, empty bottles and bullet-shattered glasses, a world of cowboys, outlaws, heroes and antiheroes unfolds. Somebody gets their head bashed in for no good reason. A satirical and epic-historical deconstruction of our so-called postwar history, inspired by the Italian film genre from the 1960s.

VOS8

Toneelhuis / Theater Stap

A show with the legendary players from Theater Stap based on the book by George Sanders, Fox 8, about the impossibility of understanding someone else’s motives and everything that results from this lack of comprehension. With the resolve to listen carefully to one another before it’s too late.

Amour

Toneelhuis / Louis Janssens

A new show by Louis Janssens about love, and how it guides and determines our lives. How do we try to love others while also staying true to ourselves? Seven queer actors throw their voices and bodies into the fray to tell a universal story of love.

Airs to Ash

Toneelhuis / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe will be singing – at last – in his own show, together with the legendary French countertenor Gérard Lesne and the South African singer Sanele Mwelase, backed by a group of classical musicians and performers. At a time when conservatism is on the rise, they regard nostalgia and opera as raw materials for a new ritual. To this end, Jozef Wouters is constructing an operatic ruin for the future.

De Krippel

Toneelhuis / Olympique Dramatique

Besides being crippled, ‘Cripple’ Billy Claven is also intelligent – a severe handicap in a community of mentally rigid island dwellers. Olympique Dramatique won the hearts of theatregoers in 2001 with their quirky adaptation of Martin McDonagh’s raw black comedy, The Cripple of Inishmaan. The original cast – Koen De Graeve, Tom Dewispelaere, Peter Van den Begin, Isabelle Van Hecke, Ben Segers, Stijn Van Opstal and Geert van Rampelberg – will be joined by William Boeva.

Guernica Guernica

Toneelhuis / FC Bergman

Inspired by Picasso’s painting named Guernica, FC Bergman creates a wordless, large-scale and hybrid visual show about the impossibility of depicting war. 

Mantike

Toneelhuis / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

Mantike is an invitation to discover how we can enter an unwritten future together. Not a prophecy, not doom-mongering, but an invitation to let go of what locks us in place. To build a future that is not preordained for us, but that we invent ourselves.

Werken en dagen

Toneelhuis / FC Bergman

A reflection about living on (and with) the land. A way of life based on the rhythm of the seasons, according to the laws of nature and the practices of the community that works the soil. But a new age is wending its way in this fragile marriage between people and earth. An ode to the irrepressible power of the group and the boundless might of nature.

The Golden Stool, or The Story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa

Toneelhuis / LOUD muziektheater / Görges Ocloo

Who is Nana Yaa Asantewaa? Why was she important? And what is her legacy? 

Wachten op Godot

Toneelhuis / Olympique Dramatique

Koen De Sutter, Tom Dewispelaere, Nico Sturm and Tom Van Dyck play in Beckett’s famous classic. By shifting effortlessly between tragedy, farce and slapstick, the actors demonstrate just how rich Beckett’s theatre is.

Dark Habits

Toneelhuis / Kunstenwerkplaats / Simon Van Schuylenbergh

This theatrical performance-epic in seven chapters takes the audience on an absurd pilgrimage through a perverted nunnery. Simon Van Schuylenbergh examines and portrays the longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism.

ALL TOGETHER NOW!

Toneelhuis / House Crying Yellow Tears / Suze Milius

ALL TOGETHER NOW! shows the inevitability of personal decisions and how violent a breakup can be. The connection between individual hurt and mutual violence is painfully revealed in a series of deeply human scenes. 

Chapters of Celebration

Toneelhuis / Muziektheater Transparant / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe / Wouter Deltour

An energetic dance performance propelled by baroque ensemble B’Rock, with La Folia as musical leitmotif. Six choreographers and six dancers construct a museum of revelry, a celebration of the partying body throughout the ages.

Guernica Guernica

Toneelhuis / FC Bergman

Inspired by Picasso’s painting named Guernica, FC Bergman creates a wordless, large-scale and hybrid visual show about the impossibility of depicting war. 

The Truthful

CAMPO / Lieselot Siddiki

In this eclectic musical theatre monster, Lieselot Siddiki uses dangerously realistic insights to depict the complex issues surrounding the concept of religion, small miracles and large-scale religious conflicts.  

Mantike

Toneelhuis / Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe

Mantike is an invitation to discover how we can enter an unwritten future together. Not a prophecy, not doom-mongering, but an invitation to let go of what locks us in place. To build a future that is not preordained for us, but that we invent ourselves.

Werken en dagen

Toneelhuis / FC Bergman

A reflection about living on (and with) the land. A way of life based on the rhythm of the seasons, according to the laws of nature and the practices of the community that works the soil. But a new age is wending its way in this fragile marriage between people and earth. An ode to the irrepressible power of the group and the boundless might of nature.

Alle schone dingen

Toneelhuis / Olympique Dramatique / Duncan Macmillan, met extra materiaal van Jonny Donahoe

In order to give his suicidal mother new hope, a boy makes a list of all the wonderful things that make life worth living. Based on the successful solo Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan. A witty, touching and comforting tale.

Dark Habits

Toneelhuis / Kunstenwerkplaats / Simon Van Schuylenbergh

This theatrical performance-epic in seven chapters takes the audience on an absurd pilgrimage through a perverted nunnery. Simon Van Schuylenbergh examines and portrays the longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism.

SCHWEINEREI

LOUD muziektheater / Lieselot Siddiki

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus. In a fortified bunker – both palace and amusement park – two eccentric figures don their party attire for one last orgy on the eve of the revolution. Lieselot Siddiki creates a bacchanal of riotous luxury and latent fear. 

To Be Antwerp 2026

Eleventh edition of the annual art route that takes you through the attractive streets of Antwerp’s Theatre District. Discover a new generation of artists! 

Again forever

CAMPO / Lisa Vereertbrugghen

A dance performance that looks at the slow dance – the ultimate smoocher – as a subversive form of dance full of queer, anti-patriarchal potential, the slow sister of the rave. The performance reveals the radical manner in which the slow dance embraces intimacy, time and slowness in an age that is dominated by productivity, efficiency and isolation. 

Wild Woman

Via Zuid / Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura

A raw, ritualistic performance about loss, remembrance and rebirth. Grounded in African spiritual traditions and driven by a hybrid soundscape of Afro futurism, Afro punk, metal and rap, a space emerges in which the past, the body and imagination converge. For the audience, a truly immersive experience – one that is not just observed, but felt. 

Mensen met problemen

Wunderbaum / NTGent

On stage here for the first time: a translated cycle by German-Swiss author Sibylle Berg, who brings unforgettable characters to life. In this tragicomic marathon performance, we follow four women at different stages of their lives. Misanthropic, ironic and exuberant. Full of intelligence, humour, anger and respect.

Saint Amour 2027

Behoud de Begeerte / Gaea Schoeters

Inspired by a new collection of short stories coming out in spring 2027 by authors from different generations, Gaea Schoeters invites a number of literary and musical guests on the basis of their oeuvres, with the connecting theme being love and eroticism. About female orgasm and how it is achieved – or isn’t. 

ENGEL

Tutti Fratelli / Nico Sturm

Tutti Fratelli takes inspiration from the dark, poetic universe of Nick Cave. A disfigured boy is cast out by his community. The only one to see him in reality is a ravishingly beautiful girl… A raw, musical narrative about exclusion and desire. A pitch-black romantic comedy and a moving ode to being different.

The Powerless

KVS / Barbara T’Jonck / Martha Balthazar / May Abnet

A documentary show about the feeling of powerlessness among people with the most power. How do responsibility and accountability work, and how is this perceived by the ‘ruling class’? The big question: Who’s really the boss?

strike

NTGent / Moved by the Motion / Wu Tsang

Carmen: the passionate lover, the liberated woman, the fury. Who is she, really? Theatre company Moved by the Motion explores opera composer Georges Bizet’s legendary story. Wu Tsang, known for dismantling and challenging racial and gender-related stereotypes and narratives, combines opera, film, flamenco and performance.
 

COPYRIOT

KVS / Krapp

Inspired by the films of Charlie Kaufman and Dostoevsky’s absurd short story The Double, Krapp conjures up a tragicomic mirror world full of strange duplicates and dubious doppelgängers.

DE SITCOM

DE HOE

‘The Sitcom’ is a schizophrenic tragicomedy in which actors play their own lives, but then as a joke. It’s also the making of this sitcom, including the romances, the breakups, the betrayals, and the ever-present hope, despite all, of a happy ending. The theatre hit of 2025 is back, now with Wim Helsen in the role of guest star!

La Noche de Aparicion

AnAku / Désiree 0100 / Lulu Muñoz

A playful horror story in three acts. A chaotic journey with undocumented ghostly creatures. They bring stories with them. And laughter. And sorrow. And tenderness. And tonight, they dance. The second part of a trilogy about the struggles of migration, paranormal experiences, Mexican myths and Latin American pop culture.

O Superman

Martha!tentatief / Johan Petit

Johan Petit collects phrases. Phrases he hears at barbecues and family parties, at home and on the street, in cafés and waiting rooms. Spontaneous poetry gleaned from everyday life. O Superman is about small gestures, about love and trust. Kato Van Ermen and Engel Peet provide musical calm amid the chaos in Petit’s mind. 

KIller Thriller

Les Âmes Perdues / Muziektheater Transparant / Tom Goossens / Mitch Van Landeghem

The more intense the real world becomes, the more successful the genre of the whodunit becomes. As we see nowadays too. Here, horror has little impact and justice always prevails. This music theatre show aims its poisoned darts at the whodunit, presenting not just one but several murder mysteries at the same time. Brace yourself for an excess of crime. Less is murder!
 

The Forest School

Woodman / Thomas Janssens

In 1926, Soviet psychiatrist Sukhareva founded a school for neuro-divergent children. Instead of calling them ‘disturbed’, she described them as gifted and introduced the term ‘autismus’. One hundred years later, a director who has recently been diagnosed with autism brings together ten neuro-divergent performers. Collectively, they form a unique ensemble that invites the audience to look at differences in a new light and to make room for everybody.

Adam en Eva zeggen sorry

Alice Reijs / De Kempvader / Tom Van Dyck

In this tragicomic marital drama, titled ‘Adam & Eve say sorry’, the Creation story takes on new life with a probing question: who bears responsibility for the chaos we have created ourselves? Alice Reijs and Tom Van Dyck retell the story with humour, hope and the complex dynamics of a relationship searching for a way forward in a world rife with crisis.

Galapagos

Stef Lernous / Abattoir Fermé

In 2005, Abattoir Fermé created one of its signature productions, which took the Flemish theatre scene by storm. Almost 25 years later, Abattoir is reviving this classic. Existential horror theatre and a penetrating filmic tableau about universal fears and contemporary obsessions, in search of the humanity behind horror, paranoia and taboos.

Zeg me hoe het moet

De Nwe Tijd / Suzanne Grotenhuis / Freek Vielen

What if we decide to stay together? What if we make the radical decision not to withdraw into our own sense of self-righteousness, but to keep searching for what binds us together? Two friends can no longer live with each other, but they can’t live without each other either. In a last-ditch effort to save their friendship, they set out to find the root of their squabbles and ways to overcome them. Or in any case to understand them. 

NO MORE WAR MUSIC

Zuidpool

A deconstruction of the stories we use to justify our wars. A playful attempt to disarm them. A wind-instrument concert about the struggle to prove ourselves right. Supported by hundreds of people in a video installation, Sofie Decleir, Kaat Hellings and Andrew Claes examine the fundamentals of our war narrative. 

De Grote Oplichter

Comp. Marius

During a voyage on the steamboat ‘Fidèle’, a series of April Fools’ Day pranks pushes the passengers’ trust to the limit. The captain offers a hefty reward to anyone who exposes the con artist. Beware of philosophical booby-traps! After Melville’s satirical novel The Confidence-Man.

Nachtland

tg STAN

A biting and at times cringe-worthy satire that takes a close look at (European) heritage and the resurgence of the far right. As always, Marius Von Mayenburg’s pen ensures that seriousness is wrapped in a cloak of fireworks and hilarity. Powerful and unabashedly entertaining theatre.

Sneeuwpanter

Mokhallad Rasem / Productiehuis Ouroboros / Kuno Bakker

A visual, dance-infused, philosophical, light-hearted theatre show about the relationship between modern people and their environment. Inspired by the bestseller The Art of Patience: Seeking the Snow Leopard in Tibet by Sylvain Tesson and the documentary The Velvet Queen by Marie Amiguet. 

Aan Tafel: Tussen trauma en troost

Toneelhuis / ARIA/UAntwerpen

Aan Tafel: Kak, Seks en Dood

Toneelhuis / ARIA/UAntwerpen

Open Monumentendag 2026

Guided tour

Toneelhuis offers you a peek behind the scenes with pleasure. Take a guided tour of the Bourla and find out everything about the building’s history and its historic theatrical constructions.

Gregory Frateur sings Billie Holiday and then some

Gregory Frateur, known for his soulful voice and unique stage presence, pays tribute to the great female jazz divas of yesteryear.

Stef Bos 2026

A selection from his repertoire and requests that can be submitted via the website.
In this way, he performs a ‘Anthology’ that is different every evening.

Kukeleku! De Grote Boerderijshow

Captain Winokio takes you to the jolliest farm in the country. A loony musical show full of animal pleasure, sing-along fun and barnyard tricks. Perfect for little farmers and all animal lovers. Kukeleku!

DAAN - Crooner

For 30 years, DAAN has been surprising audiences with a whirlwind of musical genres: pop noir and indie rock, electro and country, beats and ballads. On this intimate tour, the crooner shares the stories behind his lyrics and his colourful lifestyle. A theatrical cabaret brimming with emotion and ecstasy.

Maisha in concert

An annual project that brings together Master’s students from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp with local artists from the worlds of pop, jazz, rap, hip-hop, electronic music and more. A vibrant concert where genres and cultures come together!