About Rusalka
Antonín Dvořák
In the recent years, the opera company of the JK Tyl Theatre has regularly presented works for the youngest audience who meet this genre for the first time. more
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Billy Elliot, the musical
Elton John / Lee Hall
This exceptional English musical based on the film of the same name tells the riveting story of an eleven-year-old boy, Billy, who longs to utilize his extraordinary dance talent. more
Candide
Leonard Bernstein
The famous American composer, conductor, and an avid promoter of music Leonard Bernstein is also the author of one opera and several musicals, of which the West Side Story, staged in Pilsen for the first time in May 2017, belongs to the best that has ever been created in this genre. more
Crutches and knives
Anita Augustin
Psychedelic road story of forever young old ladies. This dynamic grotesque, which has been dramatised by the author of the novel, presents four charming elderly ladies who are facing jail. more
Cutting it short
Bohumil Hrabal
‘That Francin is a ball of nerves, he should, according to Mr Batista's file, wash his genitals with lukewarm water.’ more
Czech Christmas Mass
Jakub Jan Ryba
The Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba has become an integral part of Czech Christmas celebrations. We can hear it in every church, in concert halls, we know it by heart; we love its pure simplicity. more
Dalibor
Bedřich Smetana
Oblíbená Smetanova opera Dalibor vznikla po Braniborech v Čechách a Prodané nevěstě. Autoři líčí v idealizované podobě příběh z historických kronik o rytíři Daliboru z Kozojed, který byl nespravedlivě odsouzen a uvězněn ve věži na Pražském hradě, později po něm nazývané Daliborka. more
Don Quijote
Ludwig Minkus
The famous knightly story of the eponymous novel by Miguel de Cervantes that depicts the absurd visions and adventures of Don Quijote, follows the original ballet libretto and concentrates on the romantic couple of Kitri and Basil. more
Edith - the Sparrow from the Suburbs
Libor Vaculík / Petr Malásek / Václav Kopta
The production charts the life journey of Edith Piaf from her first songs in the streets of Paris through famous cabarets to her triumphant performance at Olympia. more
Elisabeth
Michael Kunze / Sylvester Levay
A globally successful work by prestigious European creators presents the life story of the renowned Empress Elizabeth, called Sisi, in which love, hatred, joy, and death intertwined. The romantic and at the same time tragic story of the Emperor Franz Joseph I’s nonconformist wife at the conservative Viennese court takes place against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the declining Austro-Hungarian monarchy. more
Ferdinand and Philippine
Dustin Klein
A historical story of the forbidden love between Ferdinand II of Tyrol and Philippine Welser, taking place in the very heart of Pilsen, reveals, in our ballet adaptation, the secret marriage of emperor’s son and a beautiful bride who was smart and educated but not equally noble. more
Go back for murder
Agatha Christie
Green Day's American Idiot
Green Day / Billie Joe Armstrong / Michael Mayer
The unique space of the Small Scene will see an extraordinary event – the Czech premiere of the American Idiot, a musical created to the eponymous album of Green Day, an American punk-rock band. more
Heart
In 2022 it will be exactly 100 years since the birth of South African heart surgeon, professor CHRISTIAAN NEETHLING BARNARD, who performed a successful heart transplant in 1967; the very first in the history. Despite the fact it’s been more than 50 years since this astounding surgical intervention, many ethical and religious dilemmas still persists. You can’t donate your heart and still live on… more
Christmas in the desert
Petr Pýcha / Jaroslav Rudiš
At the time this brochure goes to print, the above-mentioned writers and playwrights are writing the play directly for the actors of Pilsen drama ensemble. They are not working together for the first time, they have won many awards at home and abroad for their literary achievements. more
Křemílek and Vochomůrka
Václav Čtvrtek
The pre-Christmas time in the DJKT drama will be traditionally dedicated to both small and big children and fairy tales. more
Libertin
Stephen Jeffreys
“You will not like me. No, really, you will not. Gentlemen will envy me and ladies will be appalled.” The sarcastic historical play from the Enlightenment era tells the story of John Wilmont, known as the Earl of Rochester, a cunning and talented rascal who had lived his short and wild life as a medieval rock star. more
My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe
Based on Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw and film by Gabriel Pascal Legendary musical back on DJKT stage more
Na scénu! - Frankenstein - skutečný příběh
Aleš Kohout
Na scénu! - Miluji Tě, ale...
Joe DiPietro / Jimmy Roberts
Na scénu! - Tři pytle spravedlnosti
Dalibor Bárta / Eva Veverová, Eliška Brejchová / Martin Bára, Lukáš Ondruš
Nutcracker
Petr Iljič Čajkovskij
Ballet fairy-tale based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s story A Christmas story and a dream about Prince Nutcracker and the Mice comes to life in our theatre at the time of the most festive time of the year. The new adaptation of the well-known classical ballet will celebrate the 130th anniversary since its first staging in the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. more
One flew over...
Dustin Klein
One of the icons of American postmodern literature, Ken Elton Kesey, whose novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest won Forman's 1975 film of the same title five Oscars. more
R.U.R.
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek, besides Václav Havel, belongs to the most famous Czech dramatists of the 20th century worldwide. His plays, reflecting his civic courage, challenged the most painful problems of our history and presence, and it is no exaggeration to say that he was a visionary of the future. more
Rabbit hole
David Lindsay-Abaire
An emotionally powerful family drama tells a story about a marriage that is undergoing a fundamental life test. Becca and Howie are growing apart. They were affected by one of the greatest family tragedies imaginable. more
Radúz and Mahulena
Julius Zeyer / Josef Suk
The famous poetic fairy-tale drama by the Czech author and playwright Julius Zeyer from 1896 had its premiere staging in the National Theatre in Prague just two years after its publishing. Since then it has become a stable piece regularly acted at various scenes across the country. more
Requiem v katedrále
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sleeping beauty
P. I. Čajkovskij
Snow White
Gabriela Vermelho / Alena Pešková
The repertoire of the Pilsen ballet is once again welcoming the return of the Snow White – originally staged for our littlest audience, in the choreography and directing of Alena Pešková, who is known to the local theatregoers from several previously successful titles (Taming of the Shrew, Rite of Spring, Blood Wedding, Maryša, etc.). more
Something Rotten!
Karey Kirkpatrick / John O’Farrell / Wayne Kirkpatrick
Czech premiere of the successful Broadway piece from 2015 in the crazy style of the popular Spamalot. more
Spanish fly
Franz Arnold / Ernst Bach
A less known but excellent comedy from the higher society of early 20th century targeting the middle-class morale issues will be the last drama premiere of season 2019/2020. more
Sunset Boulevard
Andrew Lloyd Webber / Don Black / Christopher Hampton
A thrilling story following an eponymous Oscar film by the director Billy Wilder, with music by the most famous musical composer of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Although the fame of Norma Desmond, an ageing actress of silent pictures, had irretrievably passed with the arrival of the sound movies, in her own memories and imaginations Norma remains the greatest star of all time. more
Sweeney Todd
Stephen Sondheim / Hugh Wheeler
A unique musical by Broadway bard Stephen Sondheim about a cruel revenge of the London barber Benjamin Barker aka Sweeney Todd for an unjust exile and isolation from his beloved family. more
The bartered bride
Bedřich Smetana
Since the first production in Pilsen in 1869, The Bartered Bride has never disappeared for a longer period of time from the opera repertoire and is therefore very well known to our audience. Generations of Pilsen opera singers have matured in the roles in this opera. more
The full monty!
Terrence McNally / David Yazbek
An entertaining musical comedy about a group of British steelmakers who have been sacked and cannot find work. more
The Chattertooth Eleven
Eduard Bass
“Once upon a time there was a poor peasant named Chattertooth, and he had eleven sons. In his poverty he did not know what to do with them and so he had made them a football team.” more
The Makropulos affair
Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček belongs to the most respected composers of the previous century. His works are presented by leading opera houses worldwide. more
The merry widow
Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow was the first Lehár’s global success. Without exaggeration, it can be said that every music number in this operetta is a little musical jewel. more
The mousetrap
Agatha Christie
The venue is the guesthouse Monskwell Manor near London. We can hear children's song Three Blind Mice and then a woman's scream announcing that a murder was comitted. more
The princess with the golden star
Dekkadancers
The dramaturgy of the DJKT ballet also includes educational programmes for children and youth in order to develop an understanding of dance interpretation in an accessible form. more
The taming of the shrew
Jan Kučera
'Who better recipe knows how to tame a shrew, they should tell me! I'd be grateful.' more
Too Expensive Poison
Lucy Prebble
Is it possible to see justice? Perhaps even in such a grotesque cabaret of contemporary evil it is mission impossible. more
War of Goats
Dalibor Bárta / Václav Bárta st.
A little boy’s story on the background of the great history more
What about a wedding, prince?
Jiří Chalupa / Jiří Zmožek / Zdeněk Borovec
A musical fairytale for the whole family based on the popular story about prince David who is forced by his parents to chose a bride. more
Witches of Salem
Arthur Miller
The world-renowned historical thriller was written by Arthur Miller, the classic of modern American drama, and it is based on a true story – one of the most publicized witch trials of all time. It took place in 1692 in the isolated village of Salem in Massachusetts. more
