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CPH STAGE is Denmark’s largest theatre festival for professional theatre, taking place every year in late May and early June in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

Over the course of 10 days, you can experience both the highlights and the full range of contemporary Danish theatre as well as international touring hits.

CPH STAGE is an opportunity to catch new productions as well as the shows you might have missed this season. The festival invites you to be surprised and to explore new directions in the Danish theatre landscape. In addition to performances, CPH STAGE also offers events, readings, debates, seminars, parties, and much more.

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28.05– 06.06 2026

CPH Stage

ASYLET VED VERDENS ENDE

A battle between word and body, loss and recovery — and a forbidden love that, in its impossibility, also carries the germ of hope.

DSCH Koncertteater

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra's 18 Nordic soloists have left notes and sheet music and plunged into a poetic, touching, comic, eerie and furious dance with Shostakovich's music.

Tre grønlandske kvindemonologer

Three Greenlandic women stand solo in an all-night performance with new, powerful monologues about life, language, spirituality, longing and everyday racism.

WHO HURT YOU?

An unorthodox mix of dance, video, concert, performance and drag show.

Dead Air

A heartfelt and black-humorous exploration of grief, and a modern ghost story with AI revival technology.

AI CURE YOU

An intimate performance in Artbulancen, where the audience meets an artificial intelligence that listens and tries to heal. What happens when care and performance become algorithmic?

AI know you

Become a co-creator of Fix+Foxy and Odense Teater's performance with your data trail.

ASYLET VED VERDENS ENDE

A battle between word and body, loss and recovery — and a forbidden love that, in its impossibility, also carries the germ of hope.

Babys værste mareridt

We meet the young Baby, who shapes her identity in the encounter with the desires of men.

Bad Jews

An extremely fun family battle over faith and heritage.

Beyond Beyond

You are invited into an enchanting cave: an embrace, a pause. Here we surrender to the absurd landscapes of dreams in a unique fusion of music, video, performance and installation.

Blodet i vores årer

An intense and unnerving spectacle that takes you right close to the collapse of a family.

Boat Tours NHZ (New Harbour Zones)

Copenhagen Harbour as you have never experienced it before.

CALL ME FRIDAY

AN unapologetic and glittering solo show about the longing for love, cracks in the ceiling and the fear of being alone. A tragicomic performance with bangers from the greatest pop ballads.

CORNELIS

Discover the life and songs of Cornelis Vreeswijk on stage.

Cantus

Silent theatre about touch, mimicry and power.

Cry It Out

Alliances shift, ideals crumble, and comedy clashes with a deadly gravity.

DSCH Koncertteater

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra's 18 Nordic soloists have left notes and sheet music and plunged into a poetic, touching, comic, eerie and furious dance with Shostakovich's music.

Dansen med Regitze

An intense and moving portrait of growing together, losing a loved one, and making the most of the time we have.

Dead Air

A heartfelt and black-humorous exploration of grief, and a modern ghost story with AI revival technology.

Den fremmede

A marvelous and thoughtful tale based on Albert Camus's timeless classic.

Detached from Others

A choreography of loneliness to the sound of an organ.

Driving the Doubts Away – an info comedy

An info comedy about a confused 20-something, who wants to be an artist, somehow gets into art school – and gets even more confused.

EX MACHINA

A performance event where body and technology merge. Four works examine how machines, codes, and algorithms interpret identities, functions, and actions.

Eichmann, Arendt og Dig

We revisit the trial of Adolf Eichmann — a functionary who, through his work, led to the mass extermination of the Jewish people.

Evighedssuppen

A surreal doll-theater opera about pregnancy, birth and early motherhood, staged in a bar where personal memories simmer with collective histories in a perpetual stew of dreams and memories.

Femina Fabula 360

Step directly into a tactics VR experience.

FÆDRE OG SØNNER

For too long, men from minority ethnic backgrounds have stood in the shadow of a one-dimensional integration debate. But who are they - as fathers, men and citizens - when they tell their own story themselves?

Isnætter

A performance about sadism's grip on both ourselves and the world.

K.I.S.S.

After exploring the identity of the modern man, it is now the turn of women to stand in the spotlight! But how does the modern woman fit into the world of hard wood and big balls?

K.I.S.S.

After exploring the identity of the modern man, it is now the turn of women to stand in the spotlight! But how does the modern woman fit into the world of hard wood and big balls?

KING LEAR

SHAKES breathes new life into Shakespeare with sumptuous costumes, an aggressive family feud and sensuous, heartfelt '70s music.

Kald på mig Igen

A different “rom-com” about loneliness and the longing for cohesion. A love story that is not reminiscent of the usual ones, but that touches on an emotion that we can all feel.

Kikimora

A dance performance about family relationships and generational wounds.

Kunsten af fejle

Under the chestnut trees, you are invited into a magical universe.

Kvinde kend din krop

A collage woven together of thoughts, feelings and experiences from real women's lives.

Lykke-Per

A gripping theatrical performance that takes you on a fast-paced, interactive journey through Henrik Pontoppidan's 800-page Nobel Prize-winning novel.

Mad World

The show plunges us into a mad world – one that is loud, fractured, and relentlessly demanding – and asks how young people are meant to make sense of it all. Bold physicality, raw vulnerability.

My Father Can Fly

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