Grend Theater

In the location's words:

Simply GRENDTheater - simply good theater!

Welcome to GRENDTheater, the independent professional theater in Essen-Steele! With our program we offer uniquely diverse, good theater for everyone! The GRENDTheater sees itself as a 'cultural home' in the middle of Germany's largest metropolitan region - for Steele, for Essen and for the entire Ruhr area, which is home to a wide variety of people.

We know that as different as each individual is, so too are their individual expectations of art and culture. The GRENDTheater 's repertoire is based on this basic understanding: regardless of age, origin, income or level of education, we want to offer our audience a theater that makes them feel meant and invited, challenged and enriched.

In line with this claim, the GRENDTheater 's program ranges from comedies (as the successor to Theater Freudenhaus, we are the proud home of the Ruhr area comedy - Friends of Italian Opera has been running continuously with us since 1996!) to classics(King Oedipus) to modern plays with political aspirations(The Kangaroo Chronicles). In addition to our own productions with two to three premieres a year, we offer a wide variety of guest performances and special formats.