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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

THE ASYLUM AT THE END OF THE WORLD

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

Waltzing Regitze

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

Detached from Others

A choreography of loneliness to the sound of an organ.

Beyond Beyond

Inspired by lullabies and rituals, MØR collective delves into the tenderness, rhythm and brutality that makes us cross the threshold into another world.

Dead Air

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

A Fortunate Man

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

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.

Baby's Worst Nightmare

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

Inspired by lullabies and rituals, MØR collective delves into the tenderness, rhythm and brutality that makes us cross the threshold into another world.

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.

Call Me Again

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.

Cantus

Silent theatre about touch, mimicry and power.

Cry It Out

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

DSCH Concert Theatre

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 Sjostakovitj's music.

Dark Conscience #4

The Reumert-winning collective Sort Samvittighed re-enacts their success performance.

Dead Air

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

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 and You

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

Excuse me, where do I report the sensation of floating freely in the air?

Performance lecture about growing up, about loneliness and anxiety, AND about a twisted path into the performing arts as a freelance circus artist.

FATHERS AND SONS

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?

Femina Fabula 360

Step directly into a tactile VR experience.

For Sale - Home sweet home sweet

A seemingly innocent home viewing becomes an intimate and thought-provoking experience.

Ice Nights

A performance about power and human frailty in a fragmented reality.

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.

Kikimora

A dance performance about family relationships and generational wounds.

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

Nina Kareis' personal tale that examines what it is like for a child to embrace and trust a parent who has a mind that is sometimes unbearably heavy and other times infinitely high.

MÁM

This year's opening performance is filled with spellbinding dance and music.

New Nordic Poling

NNP is a movement of activist pole dancers. In an immersive blend of live action and documentary film, the audience follows their highs and lows -and the (im)possible pursuit of the collective meaning.

OBSESSED

Monsters are bigger than humans.

Open rehearsal of this year's performance

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