6 Locations
A show palace delivers spectacle on a grand scale, and Berlin has venues for dazzling dinner shows and variety nights. Combining performance, music and often a meal, a show palace here promises a full evening out. This overview gathers Berlin locations for the big show.
Large theatres and tent venues across the city stage lavish productions, from horse and variety shows to seasonal dinner theatre with acrobatics and live bands. Tiered seating, elaborate sets and multi course menus make an occasion of it, ideal for celebrations and groups. Shows change through the year, peaking around the holidays.
Browse the venues below to find a show palace across Berlin, from dinner theatre to variety spectaculars.
Located on northern Friedrichstraße, the Friedrichstadt-Palast features one of the world's largest theater stages with an approximately 24-meter-wide portal, along with 1,899 seats and a retractable water basin holding about 160,000 liters. Since 2020, the 1984 building has been a protected monument in all its aspects, attracting over 700,000 guests annually.
The Theater des Westens on Kantstrasse opened in 1896 to plans by Bernhard Sehring and combines a neo-baroque auditorium with a stage tower shaped like a medieval keep. In 1961 the German-language premiere of My Fair Lady ran here for two years and paved the way for the musical in Germany. Today around 1.600 seats fill the house.
Renzo Piano's Theater am Potsdamer Platz opened in 1999, seats 1,754 guests, and has been home to Cirque du Soleil's first permanent European show since 2025. Behind the 35-meter-high glass facade lies the grand staircase, and every year during the Berlinale, the venue transforms into the Berlinale Palast, the main screening location for the film festival.
A Tribute To Sinatra & Friends – the hit show celebrates the greatest entertainers of all time and will be performing in Berlin on New Year's Eve!
The children's show 'Playing with Time' tells an exciting story about time travel on the world's largest theater stage - the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Mitte.
The fast-paced Berlin Musical "Hinterm Horizont" at the Stage Theater on Potsdamer Platz tells with 20 legendary songs by Udo Lindenberg a love story between East and West in the times of the Berlin Wall and barbed wire.