Yes! The Amsterdam Art Heist is coming back for a second run. Following sold out performances in April, we're bringing back the Heist for a second outing. Whether you missed it the first time or you're thirsty to see it again, hurry and grab tickets while they're going. Get your tickets About the show A … Continue reading the Amsterdam art heist – back for a second run
Send us your scripts We want to help brand new Netherlands-based writers develop their first scripts (or at least their first scripts in English), culminating in a staged reading before a live audience. We’ll select between three and five scripts from all the scripts received to take forward. What kind of new work? We’re open … Continue reading Writers wanted!
Downstage Left's next edition of the playground is coming up in July, 2023 at the Badhuis Theater. With each Playground we pick a theme and present 3-5 short plays based on that theme, including work from emerging playwrights, as well as established greats. For this edition of the Playground, we bring you three short plays … Continue reading Playground 5: Dark Times
Downstage Left is happy to present The Amsterdam Art Heist, by Denis Burke, in April 2023.
In December Downstage Left staged the Christmas Classic It's a Wonderful Life, adapted for stage by Joe Landry as a live radio play. Downstage Left staged this production in collaboration with the InPlayers, Amsterdam's most-cherished English-language theatre group. In many ways It's a Wonderful Life is America's Christmas Carol, a story of redemption, hope and … Continue reading It’s a Wonderful Life
Downstage Left proudly presents Playground 4 – The Waiting Room. With each Playground we pick a theme and present 3-5 short plays based on that theme, including work from emerging playwrights, as well as established greats.
Thanks for your interest in auditioning with Downstage Left. We have already had so much interest that we are at capacity. Unfortunately we have to, well, close our open auditions for now. Still keen to audition? Don't worry. This won't be your only chance. You can sign up to receive our newsletter, where we will … Continue reading update: auditions
Thanks for your interest in auditioning with Downstage Left. We have already had so much interest that we are at capacity. Unfortunately we have to, well, close our open auditions for now. Still keen to audition? Don’t worry. This won’t be your only chance. You can sign up to receive our newsletter, where we will … Continue reading Update – Open auditions: june 6 and 8
The Government Inspector is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of the Russian Colonial Empire, of which Ukraine was a part in 1830 . The corrupt officials of a small town, headed by the Mayor, react with panic to the news that an undercover inspector will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them.
Proof at de nieuwe anita, photo by Arjen Veldt Downstage Left performed Proof, by David Auburn, in April 2022. Our first live performance after the lockdowns was a great success. Proof is the story of Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a famous mathematician at the University of Chicago, and her struggle with the fine line … Continue reading proof
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