Events
Festivals, fairs, concerts and one-off happenings, pinned to where they take place.
Collections
- The venues of Celtic Connections — Celtic Connections runs eighteen days in January and February out of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and then leaks into roughly thirty oth…
- Melbourne's theatres — Melbourne keeps more working theatres in good condition than any other Australian city, and the differences between them are structural: a…
- Dublin's theatres — Dublin's stages run from a 1662 playhouse site rebuilt as a church and back again to a Libeskind box on the Grand Canal basin, and the work…
- Johannesburg's theatres — Johannesburg's stages sit at opposite ends of a long argument about who pays for theatre: a protest-era house in Newtown, three auditoriums…
- Berlin's Festival of Lights sites — Ten nights in October, lights on from 19:00 to 23:00, around forty buildings borrowed as projection surfaces and then handed back to ordina…
- The playing places of the Festival d'Avignon — The Festival d'Avignon owns very few rooms. Each July it borrows them: a papal courtyard, two cloisters, a municipal opera house, and the g…
- The venues of the Edinburgh International Festival — The International Festival has never owned a stage. Since 1947 it has borrowed the city instead: a whisky distiller's concert hall, two Vic…
- The theatres of Buenos Aires' Avenida Corrientes — Corrientes is the street Buenos Aires goes to for a show, and the houses on it are not interchangeable: a 3,000-seat barn from 1937, a 1906…
- The venues of the Salzburg Festival — The Salzburg Festival has never had a single house. It plays a Baroque church, a riding school quarried out of the Mönchsberg, a cathedral…
- The cinemas of the Berlinale — The Berlinale has never had a single building. Its 2026 screening list runs from a 1957 heritage-listed premiere house in Charlottenburg to…
- The Broadway theatres — A Broadway house is defined by arithmetic and geography rather than by reputation: 500 seats or more, inside the box bounded by 41st and 54…
- The large tents of the Oktoberfest — Every one of these rooms is put up in June and taken down in October, which is the strange fact underneath Oktoberfest: buildings for thous…