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An evening at Vienna’s English Theatre:
Looking for an evening in Vienna filled with suspense, laughter or a story that stays with you long after the curtain falls? Vienna’s English Theatre brings English-language productions to the stage in the city’s eighth district, within easy reach of the historic centre. Its changing programme gives you a reason to return, with everything from murder mysteries and comedies to contemporary drama.
Through our partnership with Vienna’s English Theatre, you can book tickets to its main productions directly through Secret Vienna. Your €66 ticket includes VAT, a Category 2 seat and a complimentary programme to introduce you to the production and the people behind it.
Browse the productions below, choose your preferred performance date in the booking calendar and pay online. On the evening of your visit, collect your tickets at the theatre’s box office and enjoy the show.
What we love about this theatre:
- Enjoy Vienna’s theatre scene with productions performed entirely in English.
- Discover a varied programme of comedies, mysteries and thought-provoking drama.
- Experience an intimate theatre with a remarkable history of premieres and international guests.
- Receive a complimentary programme when you book through Secret Vienna.
Book your theatre tickets here!
The tickets are always relevant for the current running program. Make sure you check the information below to know which program is available. After your booking, you will receive a confirmation email with all the relevant details.
Shows Duration
Normally about
2 hours
Language
The shows are
in English
Tickets Available
See calendar
for availability
Location
Josefsgasse 12
1080 Wien
About Vienna’s English Theatre
Vienna’s English Theatre began in 1963 with an idea that proved far more popular than its founders anticipated. Austrian director Franz Schafranek and American actress Ruth Brinkmann established a summer theatre for tourists, but Viennese audiences quickly embraced it too. What started as a seasonal venture grew into a year-round cultural institution and the oldest English-language theatre in continental Europe.
The theatre found its permanent home on Josefsgasse in 1974. Over the following decades, its reputation attracted internationally recognised performers and playwrights, including Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee. Albee’s Three Tall Women, which later won the Pulitzer Prize, received its world premiere here in 1991.
Today, a visit connects you with that history while offering something immediate: the pleasure of watching a story unfold on stage, in English, in a city with a deep love of theatre.
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Find more information about Vienna’s English Theatre – upcoming programs, relevant updates or special offers for members and supporters.
Important Details
Experience: Tickets to a main production at Vienna’s English Theatre.
Language: English.
Location: Vienna’s English Theatre, Josefsgasse 12, 1080 Vienna.
Price: €66 per person, including VAT.
Included: One Category 2 ticket and a complimentary programme.
Seating: Your seat is allocated by the theatre. Specific rows or seat numbers cannot be selected through this booking.
Payment: Full payment is made online when booking.
Ticket collection: Collect your tickets at the theatre’s box office on the evening of the performance, under the name used for your booking.
Starting time: Normally 7:30 pm. Please check the details for your selected performance.
Duration: Varies by production.
Arrival: Please allow enough time to collect your tickets before the performance begins.
Accessibility: Please contact us before booking if you require a wheelchair space or have other accessibility requirements.
Age suitability: Depends on the production. Please check the individual entry before booking for children or teenagers.
Photography and recording: Not permitted during the performance.
Cancellation and changes
Bookings follow Vienna’s English Theatre’s ticket conditions.
Unused tickets: Tickets that are not used are not refundable.
Date changes: The theatre allows ticket exchanges up to one day before the performance for another date already on sale. Please contact Secret Vienna to arrange a request; exchanges depend on availability and the theatre’s conditions.
Cancelled performances: If the theatre cancels your performance, you may request an alternative date or a refund. Please contact us within one month of the original performance date.
Replacement productions: If a different play replaces the booked production, the theatre’s conditions provide for an exchange or refund.
Cast changes: Changes to the cast do not entitle ticket holders to a refund or exchange.
Full theatre terms: https://www.englishtheatre.at/english/agb
Book your evening at Vienna’s English Theatre
Choose your performance date in the booking calendar and reserve your tickets. Your Category 2 seat and complimentary programme are included for €55 per person.
Book your theatre tickets here!
The tickets are always relevant for the current running program. Make sure you check the information below to know which program is available. After your booking, you will receive a confirmation email with all the relevant details.
Recommended Partners Only
We choose our partners carefully and have worked with Vienna's English Theatre for years. We decided to collaborate on selling their tickets as we want more people, both locals and visitors, to discover their brilliant productions and shows.
Group & Private Events
We also offer group tickets for classes, companies or for private events. Contact us directly for more info!
Discover the 2026/2027 programme
Explore the upcoming main productions below.
Open each entry to learn about the play and its performance dates, then check the booking calendar for available tickets.
Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear | 3.11.26–22.12.26
A mysterious murder, a locked mansion and an enemy who is always one step ahead. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson return to Vienna’s English Theatre in Philip Dart’s adaptation of The Valley of Fear. Five performers bring a whole world of suspects and secrets to life in an adventure stretching from rural England to the American West.
Description
When a wealthy American is found dead inside a securely locked mansion in the village of Birlstone, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called upon to investigate. The clues are puzzling, the circumstances seem impossible, and the victim’s past holds more questions than answers.
Their search takes the story beyond the English countryside to the American West, revealing a dangerous history that refuses to stay buried. Meanwhile, the shadow of Professor Moriarty looms over the investigation, turning the search for a murderer into a race against time.
Following the theatre’s productions of Baskerville and The Sign of the Four, this new adventure brings Holmes and Watson back to the stage with a cast of five switching between characters, costumes and settings. Expect suspense, theatrical ingenuity and plenty of opportunities to test your own powers of deduction.
Important Details
Play: Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear, adapted by Philip Dart.
Dates: 3 November–22 December 2026.
Performance time: 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday.
Exception: No public performance on 4 November.
Language: English.
Venue: Vienna’s English Theatre, Josefsgasse 12, 1080 Vienna.
Price: €55 per person, including VAT.
Included: One Category 2 seat and a complimentary programme.
Seating: Seats are allocated by the theatre; specific rows or seat numbers cannot be selected through this booking.
Ticket collection: At the theatre’s box office on the evening of the performance, under your booking name.
Booking: Check the booking calendar for available dates.
Prima Facie | 26.1.27–27.2.27
What happens when a lawyer’s faith in justice is tested by her own experience? Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie follows a successful barrister whose life forces her to confront the system she has always defended. Winner of the 2023 Olivier Award for Best New Play, this powerful one-woman drama explores the uneasy relationship between truth, power and the law.
Description
Tessa has earned her place in the courtroom. Coming from a working-class background, she has built a successful career as a barrister, specialising in defending men accused of sexual assault. She knows how to question a witness, challenge an account and use the rules of evidence to make her case.
She also believes in those rules. For Tessa, the presumption of innocence and the discipline of the courtroom are essential foundations of justice. But when a personal experience changes her life, the system she understands so well begins to look very different.
Through one woman’s story, Prima Facie examines what happens when lived experience meets the demands of legal proof. It is an intense evening of theatre that asks audiences to consider who the law serves, whose testimony is believed and what justice means beyond a verdict.
Important Details
Play: Prima Facie by Suzie Miller.
Format: One-woman drama.
Dates: 26 January–27 February 2027.
Performance time: 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday.
Exception: No public performance on 27 January.
Ticket sales open: 14 December 2026.
Language: English.
Venue: Vienna’s English Theatre, Josefsgasse 12, 1080 Vienna.
Price: €55 per person, including VAT.
Included: One Category 2 seat and a complimentary programme.
Seating: Seats are allocated by the theatre; specific rows or seat numbers cannot be selected through this booking.
Ticket collection: At the theatre’s box office on the evening of the performance, under your booking name.
Recommended age: 15+.
Content note: Includes references to sexual violence.
Glitterball | 16.3.27–30.4.27
Family secrets, unexpected reunions and the songs of Shirley Bassey come together in Yasmin Wilde’s Glitterball. This comedy with live music follows Sonia as she navigates divorce, motherhood and a surprising discovery about her family. Catch its Continental European Premiere at Vienna’s English Theatre for an evening of humour, music and new beginnings.
Description
Sonia grew up as one half of a Shirley Bassey tribute act. Half English and half Pakistani, she has spent much of her life balancing different parts of her identity while living in the shadow of her formidable mother.
Now newly divorced and dealing with uncooperative teenagers, Sonia is trying to work out what comes next. Her mother may be gone, but her influence remains. Then a British Pakistani half-brother Sonia never knew existed appears at her door, opening up a family history she thought she understood.
With live music, Shirley Bassey songs and Bhangra rhythms, Glitterball follows the surprises and complications that come with discovering where you belong. Funny and moving, it explores family relationships, cultural identity and the possibility of finding your own voice at a point in life when others might expect you to have everything figured out.
Important Details
Play: Glitterball by Yasmin Wilde.
Format: Comedy with live music.
Production: Continental European Premiere.
Dates: 16 March–30 April 2027.
Performance time: 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday.
Exceptions: No public performance on 17 March; no performances from 26–29 March.
Ticket sales open: 15 February 2027.
Language: English.
Venue: Vienna’s English Theatre, Josefsgasse 12, 1080 Vienna.
Price: €55 per person, including VAT.
Included: One Category 2 seat and a complimentary programme.
Seating: Seats are allocated by the theatre; specific rows or seat numbers cannot be selected through this booking.
Ticket collection: At the theatre’s box office on the evening of the performance, under your booking name.
Taking Steps | 19.5.27–3.7.27
A supposedly haunted house, a nervous solicitor and a marriage on the brink turn a property deal into comic chaos. Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps brings mistaken identities, tangled relationships and inventive physical comedy to Vienna’s English Theatre. With three floors represented on a single stage level, even getting up the stairs becomes part of the fun.
Description
Tristram, a painfully tongue-tied solicitor, has been sent to oversee the sale of a crumbling Victorian house. The prospective buyer is Roland, a hard-drinking businessman who is renting the property from a less-than-reassuring builder. The house also comes with a questionable past and rumours of a ghost.
Meanwhile, Roland’s wife Elizabeth, a frustrated former dancer, is preparing to leave him. Her brother Mark and his fiancée Kitty add further complications as the characters cross paths, misunderstand each other and find themselves in increasingly awkward situations.
The play’s staging makes the confusion even more entertaining. All three storeys of the house occupy the same stage level, with actors miming their journeys up and down the stairs. Across one turbulent night and the following morning, Ayckbourn turns this unusual arrangement into a farce full of mistaken identities, apparent hauntings and precisely timed physical comedy.
Important Details
Play: Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn.
Genre: Farce.
Production run: 19 May–3 July 2027.
Public performances: From 20 May; no public performance on 19 May.
Performance time: 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday.
Ticket sales open: 19 April 2027.
Language: English.
Venue: Vienna’s English Theatre, Josefsgasse 12, 1080 Vienna.
Price: €55 per person, including VAT.
Included: One Category 2 seat and a complimentary programme.
Seating: Seats are allocated by the theatre; specific rows or seat numbers cannot be selected through this booking.
Ticket collection: At the theatre’s box office on the evening of the performance, under your booking name.
