30 AUG 2026 // It's never 'just hair' - open rehearsal door Avantika Tibrewala

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29 AUG 2026 // Plein Theater op het Indische Buurt Festival

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29 AUG 2026 // Small Miracle #4: Birthdays

In this edition of our co-creation series Small Miracles, we celebrated a joint birthday party for everyone with a summer birthday. It featured performances, music, gifts, well-wishes, an exhibition, and a cake-decorating contest!

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14 AUG 2026 // Othered Bodies - work-in-progress by Daphne Karstens

From August 3 to 15, wearable sculpture artist Daphne Karstens was an artist-in-residence at the Plein Theater Productiehuis. Daphne Karstens combines sculpture and costume to create experimental wearable sculptures, costumes, performances and installations.

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20 JUNE 2026 // Small Miracle #3: Radiance

Throwback to a day dedicated to gathering against productivity, exploring play, pastimes, hobbies, and forms of (un)doing without purpose, where value is shared, lost, or transformed through chance, refusal, and time.

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01 Juli 2026 // Ketikoti in het Plein Theater

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21 juni 2026 // Ketikoti Talk & Brunch in het Plein Theater

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05 MEI 2026 // Tafel van Oost

This was the second edition of De Tafel van Oost on May 5!

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02 MEI 2026 // Small Miracle #2: Anti-Productivity

Look back at the second edition of Small Miracles, a Plein Theater program for co-creation, with an exhibition, games, performances, and more.
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02 APR // Pleasure Parts (for de(con)struction) by An Kuper and Lucian Squid

Over the past year, An Kuper and Lucian Squid have been working on this new performance during various residencies at the Plein Theater Production House, which was shown to public for the first time at the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam.

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Recap of the successful Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

Look back here at the successful Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam from April 1 to 5 in photo and media reports.

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05 APR 2026 // Re Errection Brunch

On Sunday, April 5, we enjoyed a special and delicious Easter feast full of local, seasonal dishes, as the closing event of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam.

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01 APR 2026 // Opening Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam

We kicked off the 5th edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

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22 FEB 2026 // Small Miracles #1: Nightkeeping

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22 NOV 2025 // Expo Opening 'Ode aan Oost' door Michelle Potters

On November 22nd, we opened a new exhibition in the café of Plein Theater. Michelle Potters' 'Ode to the East' can be visited throughout December.

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Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam presented the first Blad & Blazers Festival (photo report)

Established (inter)national musicians, emerging talent, and crossovers with electronica and visual arts. New music and musical talent were brought together in a four-day festival from October 16 to 19 at the Plein Theater.

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In summer 2025, Plein Theater presents four artists-in-residencies

Four artists, four residencies, four new stories in the making. This summer, our theatre transforms into a workspace for artists who explore the boundaries of the performing arts!

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5 MAY 2025 // Table of East with the Plein Theater in the Oosterpark

On Monday, May 5, the Plein Theater celebrated 80 years of liberation at the event 'De tafel van Oost' in the Oosterpark!

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26 APR 2025 // King's Day celebration with Plein Theater at the Bredeweg Festival!

Plein Theater hosted a stage at the Bredeweg Festival this year, the King's Day Festival of Amsterdam East

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17 APR // Opening Expo: Cas Oorthuys: De Ondergedoken Camera

On April 17, we opened a new exhibition with photographs by Cas Oorthuys in the Plein Theater.

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Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam 2025

From March 25 to 30, the fourth edition of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam took place!

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Spring holiday in De Amsterdamse Winterstal in OBA Oosterdok

Together with Amsterdammers who love knitting, a winter stable has been knitted, based on Amsterdam figures and city stories. During the spring holidays, the Plein Theater programs stories and performances.

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ZA 28 SEP '24 // EAST& Baggerbeest

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JUNE 6 '24 // Opening Exhibition Laila Cohen & Phaedra Haringsma

The exhibition Entwined Roots, Unbroken Spirits by Laila Cohen and Phaedra Haringsma opened on June 6. The exhibition can be visited until June 31 in the café/restaurant of the Plein Theater.

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FRI MAY 31 2024 // Plein Theater Maand voor Keti Koti Kick Off Debat

On Friday, May 31, we kicked off the Keti Koti month with the debate 'What's Next?'

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19 MEI '24 // Dialoog in Actie & Marokkaanse PleinTafel #1: Ontrafelen van Taboes

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9 MEI '24 // Opening Expo 'Zeef, druk en zie' (werkplaats MK24)

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5 MEI '24 // Theater Na de Dam: Abayomi

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27 APR '24 // EAST& King's Day Bredeweg Festival

On Saturday April 27, EAST& Plein Theater hosted a stage at The Bredeweg Festival, the King's Day Festival of Amsterdam East!

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5 & 7 APR '24 // Farewell performance UBU & Masterclass by Neville Tranter (Stuffed Puppet Theater)

A highlight of the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam was the farewell performance of Neville Tranter, who played his very last performance after 40 years.

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03 APR '24 // Opening Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam

On Wednesday, April 3, we festively opened the Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

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8 MRT '24 // Benefietavond in solidariteit voor vrouwen en kinderen in Gaza

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7 MRT '24 // Plein Tafel: Women's Wellbeing & Afrodisiaca

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Retrospective // 22 FEB '24 // Opening expo Lekker Blijven Likken (Keep On Licking) and Sex Chat Roulette

On February 22, we opened the exhibition 'Enter the temple of pleasure (with consent)' by the two-person design activist female collective @lekkerblijvenlikken

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25 NOV '23 // EAST& BAGGERBEEST

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16 NOV '23 // Art, Food, Fashion & Body Positivity

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02 APR '23 // EAST& Festival & Party

On Sunday April 2, EAST&, the Pop Up Cultuurhuis in Amsterdam East, hosted a program for and with Amsterdam East together with the Queering Puppets Festival!

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4 to 27 NOV '22 // ROUW - a walk along places of loss by Marte Boneschansker in Plein Theater

From the 4th to the 27th of November on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Marte Boneschansker presented her latest project ROUW in Plein Theater in Amsterdam- East.

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12 NOV '22 // EAST & Javaplein & Timorplein

On Saturday, November 12, EAST&, the pop-up culture center in Amsterdam-East, are organizing a program for all ages on Javaplein and Timorplein!

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National Neighbour Day // EAST& Right About Now INC. @ Joris Ivensplein

On Saturday September 24, EAST&, the pop-up culture house in Amsterdam East organised together with RIGHTABOUTNOW INC a program for local residents at the Reuring Market on Joris Ivensplein in  IJburg!

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Sat June 18, 2022 // EAST& Oranje-Vrijstaatplein

On Saturday June 18, EAST&, the new pop-up culture center in Amsterdam East hosted a program for local residents on Oranje-Vrijstaatplein!

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26 MRT '22 // EAST& Sajetplein

On Saturday 26 March, EAST&, the new pop-up culture center in Amsterdam East, is organizing a program for locals on the Sajetplein. The square is freely accessible and the entire neighborhood from young to old is welcome!

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Docu: Participation Podium De Vrije Vloer 2019

April 2019 production house Plein Theater started a new initiative: Participation Podium De Vrije Vloer. This project is all about personal experimentation, endless variations and boundless exceedances.

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