New stagings in Germany and Austria, including Tom Stoppard’s latest play, explore the themes of social integration and tolerance that animated the “Jewish question.”
Female-led productions in Hamburg and Munich including an Annie Ernaux adaptation and a reworking of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” pack both a theatrical and a moral punch.
Florentina Holzinger’s striking, bewildering and stomach-churning new piece, “Ophelia’s Got Talent,” opened the season at the Volksbühne theater in Berlin.