Welcome to BAM!, Berlin’s festival for contemporary music theatre.

After three editions, BAM! enters its fourth round in autumn 2025 – and moves from Berlin-Mitte to the cultural melting pot of district Neukölln.

BAM! is the festival of Berlin’s independent music theatre scene. It focuses on Berlin’s international scene of music theater practitioners working outside the traditional opera form and on the variety and diversity of expression in dealing with present day issues.

Over the course of just a few days, BAM! once again presents a packed programme within a tightly confined area of closely connected venues and invites you to an immersive experience that combines music theatre with urban space.

Where do we go from here? is the question the festival wants to ask this year. Where do we go, and where does music theatre go within all the concerns of these troubled times?

Call for proposals

The fourth edition of Berlin’s BAM! festival will take place from November 20-23. As before, the festival program will be curated on the basis of an open call for projects.

All actors from Berlin’s independent music and theater scene are invited to submit their own projects by March 30!

Click ► here for the call for proposals!

Archive

Until the programme is published – find out more about BAM! and browse the archive of previous editions here.